New Delhi: Semiconductor deficiency has haunted the Indian car industry ahead of the celebration season when the company reported was weak, and even lower shipments to dealers in August, compared to what they sent in the same month.
The chip supply crunch has disrupted the production schedule of many companies such as Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra and Tata Motors, and the company has said they are forced to slow down on the floor of the store even though there is a request.
Maruti, the top car maker of the country, reported a nine percent decline in wholesale shipping, which clearly gave rise to the problem faced by the company.
The company recently said that it has a backlog of customers who are delayed from more than 1.5 lakh cars, but lack of chips hit production.
“Because of the constraints of supply of electronic components due to the situation of the lack of semiconductor, the company expects a bad impact on vehicle production in September in both Haryana and contract manufacturing companies, Suzuki Motor Gujarat.
Although the situation is quite dynamic, currently it is estimated that the total volume of vehicle production in both locations can be About 40% of normal production, “said Maruti.
Tata Motors has a growth of 51% this month based on year to year, even though the company has seen sending down seven percent in the month-to-month due to disadvantages.
“The lack of semiconductors continues to have an impact on the automotive industry globally.
The key recently in East Asia has worsened the supply situation and therefore a motorcycle forced for moderate production and volume ofttake in the coming months,” said the company, added that the situation remained fluid and ” We will continue to work to reduce the impact of this and aim to fulfill our customer’s order through a nimble and multi-branch approach.
“Tata Motors said to resolve the problem effectively, it was in the involvement of close to expanded supply chain partners, the procurement of chipsets from the open market , use alternative chips and management and mix models.
Mahindra & Mahindra also complained about this problem, and said that the supply of semiconductors continued to be a global problem for the automotive industry.
On the side of the two wheels, the generation of healthy demand at the retail level remains tough, and thus the supply of companies such as the hero of the Moto and Honda 2 for dealers are limited.
Heroes’ sales fell 24%, while Honda numbers were less than 6%.