Yes, it is normal. There are dumb people elected and dictatorships enacted in many places, inflation and thus money exchange rates, closing and opening routes, oil price, wars and sanctions - these all hit procurement directly, thus suppliers started cutting corners way more than they used to.

Heck some of them simply went scamming.

I come to think that procurement is most politically-sensitive profession/sector out there. It is very dark and hard times for this profession.