sydneyunited malt group ltd said global supplychain disruption had delayed shipments to some customers and that tighter labor markets would hit its fullyear earnings the malt processor and supplier on tuesday said that delayed sales would reduce its earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortization for the 12 months through september by about 80 million australian dollars us57 million united malt also expects a a4 million hit from higher input costs and a13 million in software costs related to the implementation of its new tech platform it attributed the tech cost to tight labor markets which will also restrict the benefit over fy 2022 of the companys socalled transformation program stripping out the software costs united malt said it anticipates underlying ebitda of a57 million for its fiscal first half and of between a115 million and a140 million over the full year