Gifts / Sports & Toys

If there are any doubts about the severity of the global supply chain crisis and its impact on toy and game manufacturers, a letter to retailers from Ravensburger North America CEO Filip Franke should make this clear. Starting September 17, 2021, Ravensburger will stop accepting additional orders for the foreseeable future.

Ravensburger makes a wide range of games, puzzles, science kits and other products for children and adults of all ages, including the popular Disney Villainous series, BRIO Trains and Wonder Forge. In this letter, published today and shared by Rick Derr of Learning Express via Twitter, Frank said that when his company's own internal warehouses encountered setbacks in their long-term improvement efforts, the challenge of the supply chain crisis was magnified.

The company did not accept orders that it might not be able to complete, but instead used its resources to keep up with its backlog of orders. Read the entire letter below:

Ravensburger will be exhibited at Gen Con in Indianapolis from September 16th to 19th. In order to prevent crowded booths, Ravensburger will accept reservations next week to personally pick up selected games at the event.

Franke said that the 2022 plan will not be affected by the temporary order freeze, and all new product releases will proceed as planned.

Recently, the topic of #sea freight rate skyrocketing 10 times still can't grab the container# has become a hot search. In fact, "a box is hard to find" has lasted for a while, and it has been the biggest headache in the shipping industry recently. Since the beginning of this year, global container shipping prices have been rising all the way, becoming the biggest threat to foreign trade right now. The freight rate risk is locked in the department's new order contract, and the freight rate risk is transferred to the customer to bear all or part of it, but it may affect sales. In 2021, Biden requires the U.S. federal government departments and agencies to conduct a comprehensive assessment of key product and industry supply chain risks, address the vulnerabilities and risks faced by the U.S. supply chain, and propose the U.S. manufacturing revitalization plan and U.S. supply chain security rules .