How can we solve the “dead knots” in the procurement of auto parts?

At the end of August, Beijing Hyundai caused suppliers to stop supplying goods for multiple reasons, resulting in the suspension of production at its four factories, while the procurement cooperation between producers and suppliers was temporarily suspended. In September, Schaeffler, a famous auto parts manufacturer, was almost shut down due to the environmental protection issues of downstream suppliers. Finally, the industry’s embarrassing “seeking help” incident occurred.

As we all know, procurement and supply are an important task for the company's operating efficiency. However, due to the wide variety of vehicle accessories, technical business, the difficulty of various types of commodity procurement process, the complexity of sales, etc., auto parts procurement Links often fall into various difficulties, which greatly reduces the operational efficiency of auto parts companies.

What are the "dead knots" in auto parts procurement? Why did it happen?

1, "information knot"

The domestic auto parts market is dominated by production. Upstream production companies and distributors exchange information, distribute products, and finally end products for the end market. Due to lack of industry concentration and lack of circulation, some auto parts purchasers lack accurate market dynamics information, regardless of wearing parts, basic parts, or cold pieces, they all purchase in accordance with the name of the parts catalog manual, resulting in a large number of Backlog of goods.

In addition, the acquisition of information from high-quality sources is even more critical. In the formulation of auto parts procurement plans, procurement companies will select several or even dozens of manufacturers as alternatives and check their products one by one. However, most of the same auto parts products are very close in terms of price and quality. Vehicle model matching can also be common. Therefore, how to select auto parts manufacturers has become the core of procurement work. If the source information is not obtained timely or is biased, it will not only lengthen the procurement cycle, resulting in the increasing number of commodities with the same quality and price, resulting in a lack of levels and gradients in the cost performance of the products, but also the quality of the purchased products will not meet the standards, which will affect the operational efficiency of the company.

2, "mass knot"

The auto parts industry is the basis of the automotive industry, and the manufacturing process level is particularly important. At present, auto parts products are divided into original parts and non-original parts (homogenous parts). Due to the lack of perfect certification standards in the homogenous parts market, some fake and shoddy products have appeared in the market. This is for buyers and sellers. Caused great damage. Judgment of product quality is also an important basis for procurement, in addition to quality guidelines, policies, laws and regulations, quality management standards, technical standards, quality content in the contract, inspection records, product certificates of conformity, report forms, inspection equipment standards Such as the standard of judgment.

3, "price knot"

Although the slogan of eliminating the price war has been hailed for many years, the phenomenon of bad prices for auto parts still exists, and OEM suppliers have also used non-original parts. Price and quality are always directly proportional to the lack of technical content, can only fight prices to produce vicious competition, profit decline is in reason. For buyers, excessive price-oriented will inevitably fall into the procurement error.

How to solve these "dead knots"?

Low supplier concentration and poor management? The procurement cycle is too long and inefficient? The high quality of supply is difficult to find and the costs increase... These problems have become the deadlock in the procurement process. On October 23, after more than ten years of professional media and B2B e-commerce trading platforms, the HC Auto Parts Network entered Ruian. , Yuhuan Automobile chassis parts and wearing parts distribution center, and organized more than 100 professional buyers in-depth auto parts factory, on-site inspection of business scale and production lines.

Want to get a good source of supply? If you don’t play it, come to the field! As a buyer, it is actually very difficult to make a site visit to the factory. This also increases the links of intermediate transactions and the information exchange cannot be fully circulated. This event aims to achieve greater scope, more precise cooperation and exchange, and effectively resolve purchases. Pain points, a worthwhile trip!