The epidemic has disrupted the pace of the automotive supply chain, companies are bound to panic, but not panic.
The epidemic "black swan" coming, all walks of life are difficult to stay out of it. Specifically in the automotive field, whether it is the whole car companies, or parts suppliers, dealers, have been affected by a certain impact. Among them, the automotive supply chain is facing a "supply shortage" crisis is being focused on by the entire industry.
At present, there are a number of foreign OEMs have no choice but to suspend production due to the shutdown of domestic parts suppliers, and as China Hengrui Co., Ltd.'s president Gu Yongtao said in an interview with Gaixian Automotive, the industry chain is interlocked, due to the shutdown of parts suppliers and lead to the shutdown of OEMs and the short-term downturn in sales will inevitably also have a negative impact on the role of suppliers. In short, the rapid recovery of the automotive supply chain has become the industry's "urgent need".
Of course, this does not mean that companies in the automotive supply chain should disregard the epidemic and the relevant national regulations and start work recklessly, but should avoid panic, and do their best to cooperate with the epidemic prevention and control under the premise of the internal and external forces, to minimize the loss, and quickly resume production and delivery of orders.
External forces of "policy support"
From the policy level, in order to better support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), recently, Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Chongqing, Guangdong, Haikou, Liaoning, Qingdao and other provinces and municipalities have introduced policies to strengthen financial and credit support, reduce the burden of enterprise taxes and fees and implement the policy to support the development of SMEs. stable employment and other aspects to provide policy support for small and medium-sized enterprises to reduce the burden.
For enterprises, the policy support is tantamount to sending charcoal in snow. China Association of Automobile Manufacturers parts department director Du Daofeng said in an interview with Gaixin Automotive, these policies were introduced in a timely manner and have a strong operability, which is a greater benefit to the late development of small and medium-sized enterprises. At the same time, he also said that in the period when China's auto industry is facing adjustment, coupled with the impact of the epidemic, it is necessary for the relevant departments to introduce support measures for supply chain enterprises.
Wang Xianbin, a senior analyst at the Gaixiang Automotive Research Institute, pointed out that the relevant enterprises should first interpret these support policies, understand the corresponding requirements and regulations, and maximize the use of this policy to take advantage of this difficult time.
Aimed at the automotive supply chain, Wang Xianbin believes that the future of the state can provide financial support to specific industries and specific enterprises in the automotive field, including low-interest or even subsidized loans, supply chain financial loans, asset-backed loans, etc., to help them obtain the appropriate capital flow to protect the normal development of products, manufacturing and marketing, and then to ensure that the relevant enterprises to tide over the difficult period and promote the subsequent stable development of the automotive supply chain. The automotive supply chain will continue to develop steadily.
Standing from the perspective of enterprises, HORIBA pointed out in an interview with Gaixin Automotive that the state should give enterprises appropriate tax incentives or exemptions on the supply side and improve the transparency of information, and enhance consumer confidence on the demand side.
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Li Jianlin, executive president of Nava Electronics, said the best way is for banks to release credit loans, lower the requirements for loan qualifications, streamline the review process, speed up the approval time and replenish the cash flow for enterprises. Some of the policies currently in place, such as the adjustment of medical insurance in social security from 10.5 percent to 10 percent, do not help enterprises significantly.
Li Peng, CEO of Xindou Intelligence, believes that after this epidemic, more and more industries and enterprises will accelerate and deepen the process of digitization, and the automotive industry is no exception to this, with the ability to digitize becoming more and more prominent. "I hope that the relevant departments can unite the intelligent network linkage related enterprises, as soon as possible to introduce the relevant automotive intelligent network linkage related standards, standardize the access standards of the entire industry. For startups, it is hoped that combined with the new situation and new trends facing the development of China's intelligent network linkage industry, it will promote the integration of production and cooperation and broaden the industry's financing channels."
The external force of "whole-zero synergy"
As I said earlier, the industry chain is interlocked, and all the relevant parties in the automotive industry chain are grasshoppers tied to a rope. Therefore, from the perspective of the automakers, it is mutually beneficial to support the supply chain companies in this situation and strengthen their collaboration to facilitate their rapid recovery.
Du Daofeng said, upstream and downstream enterprises should fully consider the impact of the epidemic on each other, the terms related to the delay in order delivery should be considered as appropriate, and the subsequent resumption of work, Chinese brands of small and medium-sized parts and components enterprises, vehicle enterprises and higher-level parts and components enterprises should be given support; after the resumption of work, the enterprise can not be for the sake of profit and play a price war, harming the entire industrial chain.
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Wang Xianbin pointed out that vehicle enterprises can specifically support supply chain enterprises through the following four aspects:
One, with the financial strength of vehicle manufacturers should try to give appropriate financial support to parts and components enterprises, for example, as soon as possible to pay the accounts receivable from parts and components suppliers, especially those parts and components suppliers with poorer price premium ability and the Upstream suppliers, to ensure its financial liquidity and normal operation;
Two, in terms of products, vehicle and parts companies can *** with the research and development, based on which not only can enhance the development efficiency, but also *** with the amortization of research and development costs;
Three, in terms of production, the two sides can *** with the cooperation of the part of the production line to do the transformation of the flexibilized or digitalization, to improve production efficiency and reduce operating costs.
Four, if part of the enterprise is affected by the larger, but the enterprise still has the potential to follow, the vehicle and parts enterprises and their downstream enterprises can *** with the financial institutions to apply for financing loans or financial support, etc.
Lee, who has been working with the company since the beginning of this year, said that the company has been working with the financial institutions for a long time.
Li Jianlin said that the vehicle enterprises can release orders in advance more than 6-12 months, so that suppliers to prepare in advance, the time span is conducive to the material turnover of the suppliers to move. In addition for some difficult situations in advance, early preparation, honest communication **** with the response.
Internal strength of the "many measures"
Iron still needs its own hard, the external environment is certainly important to support, but the company's own resilience as well as the power of action is the key to break through the problem.
BMTS (BMTS) global marketing and sales and strategic development of the person in charge of Cai put in an interview with Gai Shi automobile, said: "can not normally start this period of time, but also gives parts and components enterprises a rare opportunity to calm down and think. In the past few years, China's auto industry has been in rapid development, but neglected to cultivate internal strength. Therefore, at the time of the outbreak of the epidemic, a lot of problems were exposed. Epidemic to the entire industrial chain sounded the alarm, no matter when, 'iron still needs its own hard', enterprises have to be down-to-earth, do a good job of internal control, the actual efficiency of the enhancement, process optimization, etc., to improve the overall core competitiveness, in order to be invincible in the brutal competition in the market and the sudden crisis. "
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One well-thought-out decision is better than a hundred rash actions. Wang Xianbin advocates mapping the situation before acting. Specifically, supply chain companies to solve the delivery problem, you can start from the following aspects:
One, assess the current situation of their own supply of product lines, to determine the future downstream customer demand for what are the hot products, based on the hot products to reserve the relevant parts and components;
Two, pay attention to their own parts and components of the product inventory management status, as well as upstream raw material procurement situation, including the
Three, comprehensive terminal sales and upstream and downstream supply chain, timely response and feedback, as far as possible to achieve low-cost production and delivery.
And for the heavy epidemic area of some factories or parts companies, he believes that in the short term due to the continuation of the epidemic, these companies still need to arrange the resumption of work in accordance with government regulations, of course, not only to defend against the epidemic, but also to think ahead of how to prepare for the production of relevant in a timely manner; In addition, it is necessary to consider in the short and long term whether the production line is to do some capacity adjustments, and whether the production capacity in some areas can be ***shared with other enterprises, thereby reducing production and delivery. **share, so as to reduce production and operating costs; in addition, in the long term, it is necessary to consider whether there are some non-core assets or assets that need to be divested, which can be disposed of in a timely manner.
Du Daofeng pointed out that auto parts companies should be taken after the resumption of work measures include:
One, should comply with the national and local governments on the overall arrangements for epidemic prevention work, combined with the actual resumption of work according to the requirements of the enterprise, people-oriented, good protection of employees, and carry out the production and business activities in an orderly manner;
Two, the stage of the enterprise can not be fully resumed work, should be prioritized to the prevention of the epidemic of vehicles Orders as well as the orders of the affected areas, and give full consideration to logistics and other factors, do a good job in the later stages of the full resumption of work of the material reserves, etc.
Three, in the heavy epidemic area of parts and components production enterprises, in the epidemic before the epidemic is fully under control, all to control the epidemic as the primary task, to meet the resumption of work standards, timely docking upstream and downstream enterprises, depending on the order of the situation of the orderly scheduling of production.
Li Peng said: "General Eisenhower said to plan actions (Planning), do not plan programs (Plans). In this way, when the gun goes off, you can be on the spot. I believe that experiencing such a war 'epidemic' will make the synergy within the enterprise, between the enterprise and the enterprise stronger and more united, more able to be like a biological organization, self-organization and digital mode to complete the task."
So how are companies in the automotive supply chain acting today? Gaijin Automotive recently interviewed and collected some specific initiatives of some enterprises (in no particular order) in resuming work and production, and you **** to enjoy them, in order to contribute to the development of the industry in a small way!
Bosch
Resumption of work
1. Time adjustment: In order to actively cooperate with the prevention and control of the epidemic, according to the requirements of the local government's resumption of work, most of the Bosch companies and factories in China are scheduled to resume work from February 10th.
2. Employee protection: Bosch is very concerned about the new coronavirus pneumonia outbreak. Since the beginning of the epidemic, Bosch has quickly set up a special response team in China. For Bosch, the first and foremost priority is to protect the health and safety of employees. To this end, Bosch companies and factories have proactively taken a series of protective measures, including cleaning and disinfecting programs for production and office areas, procurement of masks, and requirements for temperature measurement. In addition, the company has asked employees to reduce travel, avoid traveling to key outbreak areas, and cancel large gatherings of people.
Resumption of production
Undisclosed
Schaeffler
Resumption of work
1. Timing adjustments: Schaeffler has responded positively to the government's request to reduce the movement of people and gatherings, and has formulated a policy of delaying the start of work in a timely manner, and has taken measures to shut down factories around the world.
2. Employee protection: The company contacted the employees in Wuhan office at the first time, paid attention to their situation, and collected and tracked the health information of the employees around the world online. Through a variety of channels to inform employees in a timely manner of the anti-epidemic measures taken by the company to strengthen the epidemic prevention publicity, and the organization of the factory doctor online Q&A, to send care for employees. The company has also taken a series of thoughtful initiatives, including the abolition of business trips, flexible office locations and formats, and so on. At the same time, the company actively deploys all kinds of safety precautions, strengthens the disinfection and protection measures in all offices and factory workplaces, and at the same time equips protective materials such as thermometers and masks, and formulates a strict visitor management system.
Resumption of production
Schaeffler is working together with its business partners in the upstream and downstream of the supply chain to stand by each other and **** together to face the challenges. In order to ensure business sustainability, the company conducted inventory analysis and forecasting of inventory in a timely manner, and actively communicated closely with customers at home and abroad; at the same time, it contacted its suppliers in the first instance to understand the situation, assessed the risk of its suppliers, and managed the cash flow of the company in an effort to minimize the impact of the epidemic on its business operations.
Magna
Resumption of work
1. Time adjustment: In response to the epidemic, most of the Spring Festival holidays of Magna's Chinese branches have been extended to February 9, and some office staff will be home-based in the first week after resumption of work to provide more time for epidemic prevention and control.
2. Employee protection: Preparations include employee health screenings and workplace sanitization measures; obtaining and delivering much-needed hygiene and protective supplies globally to all business units in China; and communicating with employees in a detailed manner in order to cooperate with local government initiatives.
Resumption of production
Magna will mobilize global resources to support employees in China and prepare for the resumption of production and operations.
BMTS
Resumption of work
1. Timing adjustment: At present, BMTS China's Shanghai plant, Shandong Dongying plant, Jinan plant, and China R&D center in Beijing resumed work on February 10 according to batches one after another.
2. Employee protection: Shuttle buses will run as usual and will be sterilized according to the regulations; health status of personnel entering and exiting the plant will be checked; the office environment will be non-toxic and safe; the safety of dining in the cafeteria will be guaranteed (single entry and exit of dining lines, and in separate batches, with long-distance pickups, and single-row dining); and the response mechanism for returning to work after the holiday will be put in place.
Resumption of production
Because the development of the epidemic is a dynamic process, but also to see the next two weeks of this epidemic control, these two weeks is very critical, can not be controlled is the company's special attention. At the same time, the company is also keeping a close eye on the inventory digestion situation of vehicle manufacturers at the retail end.
HORIBA
Resumption of work
1, time adjustment: since February 10th resumption of work.
2. Employee protection: At present, the company has set up a special epidemic emergency working group in accordance with the prevention and control requirements of the state and governments at all levels to organize and implement various epidemic-related prevention and control measures. The company has opened an online daily report system for employees' health status and encourages employees to work remotely. The Japan headquarters and other regional operation teams have made great efforts to purchase key supplies such as N95 masks globally, and these health protection supplies have been shipped to China and distributed to employees in all branches.
Resumption of production
Proactively communicate with customers and coordinate production resources to ensure supply. Judging from the current situation, the company can meet the supply needs of customers.
Centou Intelligence
Resumption of work
1, time adjustment: February 17th resumption of work.
2, employee protection: the company set up an "epidemic command team" and start the employee care and protection program, such as daily health punch card, to understand the health status and needs of each employee; the procurement of protective materials, the company in the moment through various channels to purchase the first batch of protective materials, distributed to the needs of the employees and family members of the employees in Shanghai, Beijing and Baoding; the current second batch of protective materials to be distributed to the employees and family members of the employees in Shanghai, Beijing, Baoding, Beijing and Baoding. The second batch of protective materials is currently being purchased to meet the needs of more employees and families after the resumption of work.
Resumption of production
The company strives to ensure that its clients' project deliveries are minimally impacted by the epidemic, and at the first time, it has sorted out the status of all project deliveries and resources affected by the epidemic, and envisioned the nature and extent of the epidemic's impact on its internal operational capacity, and provided corresponding countermeasures. At the same time, we tracked the epidemic situation on a daily basis, adjusted the mobilization and synergy of internal and external resources in real time according to the changes, and eliminated the disabilities and made up for the shortcomings in the operation.
Nava Electronics
Resumption of work
1. Time adjustment: Nava Electronics resumed work in strict accordance with the requirements of the state ministries and commissions and the Shanghai Municipal Government, and staggered adjustments were made to the specific details of the implementation of the work to adjust the work time to February 11 staggered Monday, the work hours were adjusted to Tuesday-Saturday 9:45 a.m. - 18:45 p.m.
2、Employee protection: all employees returning to Shanghai from regions other than Shanghai, in accordance with the requirements of the municipal government and the streets of the jurisdiction to which it belongs to isolate for 14 days; for employees who have difficulty in accessing the temporary inability to return to work, encourage the application for annual leave, transfer leave, personal leave; before the end of the epidemic requires employees to report daily health and temperature status, and employees are issued with face masks; resumption of work, the entire staff to get up early every day to report on the health of the body temperature punching card. Entering the work building temperature measurement, indoor fresh air throughout the mask during the work period, meeting distance of more than 2 meters; staggered work, encouraging employees to bring their own meals, separate meals, etc.; for the conditions of home office employees can apply for a home office, and require supervisors to check the results of the work.
Resumption of production
After the outbreak of the epidemic, NIVA contacted the suppliers to prepare some materials in advance, and after the resumption of work, some of the suppliers who cooperated with NIVA had not yet begun to work, and NIVA communicated with the customers about the recent demand at the first time, and accurately calculated the actual demand for the 3-month period thought to be within the period. Since the customer has not resumed work, NIVA has a certain safety stock, and there is no delivery pressure at present. The follow-up situation, a look at the supplier's resumption of work and with the situation, the second look at the customer's actual needs, if you can do a good job of accurate convergence delivery problems.
Rome Semiconductor
Resumption of work
1, time adjustment: Roma in China, Tianjin, Dalian, with factories, as well as Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and other 19 sales outlets. The resumption time varies from region to region, and the resumption will be carried out according to the guidelines of each government.
2. Employee protection: Implementation of employee health confirmation, temperature measurement, wearing masks and other measures.
Resumption of production
In order to fulfill our responsibility of supplying to our customers, we are preparing for the resumption of work by building a comprehensive epidemic prevention system. It is expected that alternative production will be carried out in Thailand, Malasia, the Philippines, and South Korea. The Rohm Group has made the establishment of a business continuity management system (BCM) one of the key management issues, and in particular, the Rohm Group is making preparations by setting up countermeasure committees, filing business continuity plans (BCPs), and conducting appropriate training in response to crises such as specific disasters, especially at domestic and overseas locations engaged in production.
Suzhou Chaoli Automotive Systems Co.
Resumption of work
1. Adjustment of time: delayed resumption of work, adjusted to February 17th.
2. Employee protection: according to the local requirements, first isolation, home office and then apply for the resumption of work, the purchase of necessary epidemic prevention materials, epidemic prevention and publicity.
Resumption of production
Coordination with the host plant for the project time update; technical research and development, mainly based on the host plant needs to catch up with the progress, to complete the relevant tests.
Exceed
Resumption of production
1. Timing adjustment: Exceed's three major operation centers, the Asia-Pacific technology R&D center and the headquarter in China have passed the acceptance of all levels of government to start the construction work, and all of them started the construction work successfully before Feb. 11th.
2. Employee protection: Exceed China has been paying close attention to the trend of the epidemic and the situation of its employees, and has been doing its best to ensure the health and safety of its employees. All the offices and factories of the company have strictly implemented a number of epidemic prevention measures, such as comprehensive disinfection and personnel prevention and control, from the day of resumption of work, to ensure that all the employees can devote themselves to normal work and production in a healthy and safe environment.
Resumption of production
Undisclosed
Romchem
Resumption of work
1, time adjustment: work at home before February 10, after which you can enter the office, the follow-up situation and other government arrangements.
2, employee protection: statistics of employees, field back to Shanghai employees must be isolated at home for 14 days without fever to enter the company, there are symptoms immediately reported isolation, allowing employees to arrange for their own into the company or work at home. The office area personnel in and out of the registration management, temperature measurement, shuttle bus disinfection, full-time must wear masks, cafeteria dining time, increase air circulation cycle, open windows and ventilation, and so on.
Resumption of production
The outbreak basically did not affect the company's production.
Mahle
Resumption of work
1.? Timing adjustments: MAHLE companies everywhere ensure that the resumption of work is in line with local government requirements;
2. Employee protection: All unnecessary business travel is canceled until further notice; all companies will be equipped with the necessary protective and disinfectant supplies. MAHLE China's management team is keeping a close eye on the development of the outbreak and the health of employees in China.
Resumption of production
Undisclosed
Thousands of locations
Resumption of work
1. Time adjustment: Starting from February 3 to work at home, and gradually and successively resuming work from February 10 onwards.
2, employee protection: the company combined with the staff workplace situation, the actual situation of Shanghai, Beijing, Deqing three places, to develop a combination of remote home office + on-site office combined with the combination of office mode. Employees entering the company are required to measure body temperature and wear masks. At lunchtime, employees are encouraged to bring their own meals or take-out, or they can choose boxed lunches from the cafeteria in the park, which will be delivered directly to the company. The company has further upgraded the disinfection and security of each office location. In addition, according to the requirements of the municipal government, for people coming to Shanghai from key areas, they are required to consciously isolate themselves at home for 14 days from the date of arrival, synchronize the information in a timely manner when they have fever and other symptoms, and actively cooperate with the isolation and investigation.
Resumption of production
The national Beidou ground-based augmentation system operated by the company operates normally for 7*24 hours, and provides stable services for millions of smart cars, tens of thousands of drones, one hundred thousand measurement and various engineering equipment, and hundreds of millions of cell phones and other IoT devices. In response to the emergency situation of the current epidemic, Chance Location has also specially set up an emergency response platform to connect all aspects of troubleshooting, so that everything from discovery, response, processing, and notification is done on the same platform, maximizing the assurance of continuous and stable provision of spatio-temporal intelligent infrastructure services.
Gai Shi summary: the epidemic disrupted the pace of the automotive supply chain, companies are bound to panic, but not panic. Extremely early from panic to calm, come up with effective remedies, is the top priority!
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