Like most provinces, Zhejiang Province stipulates that all kinds of enterprises should resume work no earlier than February 10, and the legal date of resumption of work is June 65438+1October 3 1. It is understood that Geely Automobile officially started to resume work on February 10, but the resumption of production at the production base was relatively delayed. "Due to the traffic control in 20 cities across the country, many parts suppliers can't return to work. Even if Geely returns to work, it still can't work normally. Please ask the municipal government for support ..." On February 13, Geely Automobile sent a letter of help to Ningbo Municipal Government.
In the CCTV news broadcast mentioned above, Xu Xiaohang, deputy general manager of Geely Automobile Xiao Chun Manufacturing Base, said that a whole vehicle includes tens of thousands of parts, and it is impossible to lose one. Since the base resumed work in early February, the progress of supporting suppliers has been different. At most, there are 700 varieties and nearly 4000 parts. For example, Ningbo Taihong Electromechanical Co., Ltd., which produces the inner plate of the wheel cover for Geely, will face thousands of claim losses if it is delayed for one minute because its employees are not fully employed and cannot supply.
After receiving Geely's letter of help, Ningbo held an emergency coordination meeting with various departments such as the Ministry of Information and Communications. Chen, deputy mayor of Ningbo, said that nine service teams have been set up in Ningbo to go to various places to comprehensively sort out the industrial chain, supply chain, upstream and downstream, and provide point-to-point and one-to-one assistance. It is understood that after the aid operation began, all nine Geely auto parts suppliers in Ninghai, Ningbo resumed production within one day, and Cixi 15 auto parts suppliers resumed production within two days. ...
Although the problem of local suppliers' resumption of work has been guaranteed, it is difficult to control the resumption time of many supporting enterprises of Geely Automobile outside Zhejiang Province. On the one hand, logistics and transportation between cities are blocked. According to the information of official website of Ningbo Economic and Information Technology Bureau, in view of the logistics transportation problem that there are 185 suppliers outside Ningbo who can't transport parts to Geely production base in the city, Ningbo Transportation Bureau and other relevant departments set up a temporary automobile transportation service group to issue more than 100 passes to Geely Automobile.
On the other hand, some suppliers outside the province may not have resumed production. For example, Guangrui auto parts supporting the 201KLOC-0/Geely side wall stamping project settled in Hubei, and Geely Automobile also planned a production base in Wuhan. In this case, the Ningbo municipal government helped Geely to change suppliers. It is understood that on February 15, Ningbo Economic and Information Bureau sorted out the list of 107 enterprises to Geely, all of which had supported or intended to support Geely, and then provided a number of alternative enterprises. It is understood that Ningbo Economic and Information Bureau has sorted out 350 local parts supporting enterprises, and Geely has selected 35 of them.
However, this behavior of switching suppliers has aroused doubts from the outside world. "For ordinary people, it takes at least 8 months to find a new supplier." An insider of the automobile manufacturing industry told the reporter of Economic Observer Network. In addition, a person from an auto investment company commented on the Internet that "laymen may not understand that supplier replacement requires a lot of experiments, adjustments and certifications, not just for OEMs and suppliers". The reporter from Economic Observer Network asked Geely Automobile about the cycle required to change suppliers. As of press time, the other party did not reply.
Since Geely Automobile landed in Ningbo from 65438-0999, it has driven the automobile industry to become the main economic vein of the city. 20 16 automobile manufacturing industry has become the largest industry in Ningbo for the first time; In 20 17, the total industrial output value of 595 automobile manufacturing enterprises above designated size in Ningbo exceeded 200 billion yuan for the first time, accounting for nearly half of the total industrial output value of automobile manufacturing enterprises above designated size in the province. In Ningbo, Geely Automobile is the largest automobile manufacturer with production bases in Hangzhou Bay, Beilun and Yuyao. By 2025, Ningbo plans to cultivate automobiles into trillion-dollar industrial clusters.
According to public information, Geely Automobile Xiaochun Base is located in Beilun District, Ningbo, and started construction on 20 1 1, covering an area of 1000 mu. It has a vehicle workshop and a gearbox factory, mainly producing Geely Borui, Job and other models, with an annual output of 200,000 vehicles. Geely Automobile has more than ten production bases in China. In addition to Xiaochun base in Ningbo, Geely Automobile's bases in Chengdu, Baoji and Hangzhou Dajiangdong have also been assembled and put into production. Power manufacturing enterprises in Yiwu and Baoji have gradually resumed production capacity.
In 20 19, the sales volume of Geely Automobile was 136 1600, down 9.3% year-on-year, and the sales target in 2020 was 14 1000. In June this year, affected by the Spring Festival and the epidemic situation, the automobile production and sales in China decreased by 24.6% and 18% respectively, and the total sales of Geely Automobile in June decreased by 29%. February was affected by the epidemic for a longer time. According to the Federation's data, the wholesale sales of manufacturers in the first three weeks of February fell by 93% year-on-year.
For car companies, every day of delay in returning to work means huge losses. For example, Dongfeng Honda lost about 500 million yuan due to the suspension of production, Beijing Benz exceeded 400 million yuan, and Shenlong Automobile decreased by 38.06 million yuan per day. At present, except for the automobile enterprises in Hubei province, which are required by the government not to resume work earlier than March 1 1, automobile enterprises in other provinces and cities have basically started to resume work in an all-round way, and actively integrate the spare parts supply system to restore production capacity, and replacing suppliers has also become a plan mentioned by many automobile enterprises.
"It is very difficult to change suppliers. If the sole supplier fails to supply, it is basically impossible to replace it in the short term. If it is not an exclusive supplier, it depends: there are two suppliers for a part of the same model, and there is no problem in replacing it; However, if it is the same part of different models, it is not easy to replace suppliers with quality system certification. " A senior analyst in the automotive industry told the Economic Observer.
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