Earlier than expected, the automotive supplier Bosch, for his delivery problems for BMW solved. Due to a lack of parts from Bosch, BMW has ramped up production in Germany, China, and South Africa.
Since Wednesday BMW get the needed parts for the one-, Two-, three -, and four-row, said Bosch. In the components, it was electric steering. The supplier is from Italy, which was the bottleneck responsible, have a share in the production of castings for the steering gear in the past few days.
A BMW spokesman said, about 8000 vehicles could not be produced due to lack of parts. The amount of damage is currently being determined. Because of the bottleneck BMW had the production of the various series in Munich and Leipzig, throttles, and BMW plants in China and South Africa had already brought forward, planned production stops, or expanded. For customers, there is no serious impact, said a company spokesman.
Not “just in time”
The delivery backlog should be caught up in the next days and weeks, a BMW spokesman. BMW was originally assumed that the problems can’t be fixed this week.
The case shows once more how dependent auto companies and suppliers are now from each other. The BMW for the purchase of a competent Board of management Markus Duesmann said, most of the parts would point provided exactly the “just in time” for each vehicle on the Assembly line. Therefore, a missing small part of the value chain break – up to China.
30 deliveries a day
Last August, missing transmission parts and seat covers from the supplier had to Prevent stopped the tapes at VW. Christian Vietmeyer from the Association the supply industry, said: “After the delivery stop of Prevent in dispute with VW has been discussed about the dependence on a single supplier, such as risk-reducing.” At the time, 18.000 VW looked-workers even of short-time work is threatened. In the case of very sophisticated, complex Parts, the car companies worked together, sometimes with only one supplier, said Vietmeyer.
Where previously two deliveries per day ranged, should arrive today, the right part “at exactly the right Moment in the car on the Assembly line. I know of a plant of a large manufacturer, in which there is a daily 30-time window for deliveries,” said Vietmeyer. More and more suppliers of buildings, in the meantime, businesses near the auto plants. “In a 30-time Windows a hours exact delivery Germany can no longer be ensured for a plant in China,” said the expert.
ar/whom (dpa, rtr)