Querétaro, Qro. The logistics crisis, the rising cost of shipping costs to import from Asia, delays in delivery times, are points that make clear the need to shorten the distance with the supplier.
The state’s maquiladora and export manufacturing industry recognizes that one of its challenges is to be closer to its suppliers, a challenge that was exacerbated by the global logistics crisis and further evidenced dependence on imports of supplies, said the general director of the National Council of the Maquiladora and Export Manufacturing Industry (Index) in Querétaro, Marcela Anaya.
Therefore, one of the council’s objectives is to motivate its associates to develop local supply and reduce dependency on the outside.
“They depended so much on the outside that by not having it they stopped (the supply chains), so being able to develop local supply, not depending is where Index’s vision goes, motivating companies to continue working with their suppliers. , but that we do help develop local suppliers ”, he explained.
Among the lines of work of Index in Querétaro is to create strategies that promote the detection of opportunities in local suppliers.
“Not only the ones you already have (from suppliers) or the ones you can look for, but in the future you depend much less on great powers and start –through the export industry– to develop those local suppliers and that is the challenge that we have ”, commented the manager.
Costs
The president of Index in Querétaro, Enrique Quezada Ojeda, explained that before the crisis of the containers the cost of one from China was around 3,000 dollars and currently is almost 13,000 dollars, which has represented an increase in transportation.
These increases have an impact in different ways, depending on the type of industry, since the impact on electronics has been greater than for others.
“It has hit a lot in costs (…) but we have heard of some companies that have managed to do certain schemes, jobs, to minimize those costs. And we also return to depending on the industry, there are industries that did not hit them in the least and there are others that do, “he said.
Quezada Ojeda said that some companies adjust their costs, in order to mitigate the increases that occurred this year.
In this regard, the businessman said that there is work to be done to increase the participation of national suppliers in the export industry, however, it is a gradual process.
The trade-offs facing the export industry would continue over the following year, although the situation is not expected to worsen, but complications do persist. He trusted that within two years there will be more regularity in global transportation processes.
In the first half of the year, the value of exports reached 6,939.17 million dollars in the state, an annual increase of 36.2%; This variation occurred after one year of the confinement that contracted the export activity in part of the year 2020, state reports from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx