More and more areas are affected by the current supply bottlenecks.
Now the Bavarian metal and electrical industry is also sounding the alarm.
Munich - The difficult situation on the raw materials market is getting worse.
In the meantime, 96 percent of the companies in the Bavarian metal and electrical industry complain about production disruptions.
The fault is the lack of raw materials and preliminary products.
This was the result of a survey conducted by their two associations, bayme and vbm, among the member companies.
“It is particularly frightening that more than half of the companies no longer receive individual materials at all.
Sometimes the entire production comes to a standstill, ”said General Manager Bertram Brossardt on Tuesday in Munich.
"Even now, every fifth company has to work short-time because of the delivery bottlenecks."
Delivery bottlenecks slow down the economic upturn
The "upswing from the deep Corona valley threatens to fail due to delivery bottlenecks and material shortages," said Brossardt.
37 percent of the companies did not expect the shortage to end for a year.
Almost every company is affected by late deliveries, two-thirds are insufficiently delivered, and every fifth company has insufficient quality deliveries.
At the same time, the purchase prices have risen by an average of over a third, said Brossardt.
Big problems with domestic and Chinese deliveries
The problems exist with transport and along the entire value chain in production.
“Deliveries from within Germany and from China are particularly affected.
Two out of three companies report impairments. ”Only one in five companies, on the other hand, has problems with deliveries from the USA.
With deliveries from Central and Eastern Europe, only two percent of all companies report difficulties.
"The expected decline in sales in the 2021 calendar year is already 13 percent on average," said Brossardt.
The reactions range from the search for alternative suppliers and products to price increases and the restriction of production.
An extension of the improved short-time working regulations and optimized customs clearance would help the companies.
(dpa)
