The automotive industry expects 2022 as a “complicated and tough” year, not only due to the shortage of chips, but also because, given the breakdown of the production chains worldwide, shortage of other components is expected and raw materials that will put them in “trouble” for the manufacture and sale of vehicles.
So they declared Guillermo Rosales, president of the Mexican Association of Automotive Distributors (AMDA) and Erik Ramírez, president and director of the Latin America region of the Agencia Urban Science, after recognizing that the situation to achieve stability in the supply of inputs in the sector has lasted until 2023.
“We would expect that during 2022 we will have a crisis of components, not only are semiconductors, after the pandemic by Covid-19 Many supply chains were affected and they are being reassessed, rearmed, and we were bringing spare parts from the other side of the world (from Asia), “said Erik Ramírez, in a virtual press conference.
Now it will not be so easy due to sanitary restrictions and supply chains are being rearranged. Today they can be chips, tomorrow seats, steering wheels, raw materials such as plastics, others that will be added ”, he assured.
For his part, the president of the AMDA He commented that the situation worldwide, in terms of semiconductors, is deficient in terms of its supply for the automotive industry.
“In the particular case of vehicles that are destined for the Mexican market, we find that in this last stage of 2021, the two months with the highest sales, which are November and December, we have maintained this insufficiency in sales floors,” said Rosales.
A two-week inventory shortage was regularly handled, but it has passed from 8 to 12 weeks, period that customers must wait to access their new vehicle.
This will lead to the Mexican automotive market barely sold 1 million light vehicles at the end of 2021, with the loss of 70,000 units that the agencies had projected to place in Mexico.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx