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Faced with shortages, nearly one in two companies (47%) will relocate in 2022 part of its supplies, mainly to Europe and France, according to a study published Tuesday, January 11 by the firm AgileBuyer and the National Council of purchases.
Supply problems will affect 68% of companies in 2022, according to this survey carried out among 893 purchasing managers between November 16 and December 2, 2021. And for 65% of them, these difficulties will have ” a strong impact on the company’s margins ».
Shortages particularly hit the food industry and the hotel and catering industry, at 82%, and almost as much the automotive industry (78%), metallurgy (75%) as well as fashion and luxury goods (74%). But all sectors are concerned and only two have only a minority of companies reporting these difficulties, finance at 42% and IT / telecoms at 38%.
Also more than four out of five companies (82%) will set up ” actions to secure supplies in 2022 “, Against just under three in four (74%) a year ago, according to the study.
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Good news, more than nine in ten purchasing managers consider the shortages they are experiencing to be ” conjunctural “And only 9% that they are” structural ».
But for now, the balance of power between principals and suppliers, in the past often favorable to the former, has been reversed and 82% of purchasing departments consider that they have relationships ” unbalanced and / or unfavorable with certain suppliers “. Last year, they were only 39% in this case. For principals, the relationships are the most unfavorable when they buy raw materials, metals, electronic products or use transport services.
Consequently, ” the cost reduction target has never been lower “For purchasing departments, which are only 55% to pursue such a goal in 2022, against 77% last year.
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Several explanations
« What you have to understand is that countries like China, for example, have experienced inflation of over 10% for twenty years. And so eventually, it starts to get more and more expensive. On the other hand, the price of transport has been multiplied by 5 this year. So the overall cost of acquisition for the French company is much too high. This explains why we increasingly want to buy French and buy European, not out of idea, but out of simple pragmatism, analysis Olivier Wajnstock, associate director of AgileBuyer at the microphone of Myriam Berber.
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When companies go to relocate, they’re not going to stop buying far. They will buy far and buy near, so they will limit the risk. If you buy far and buy near and one of the two sources has problems, you will still have the alternate source. This is the interest.
The other problem we are going to have is that there are products that are no longer found in France, there are products that are no longer found in Europe. There are activity points, for example electronics are only found in Southeast Asia. This is one of the big difficulties that there will be: finding suppliers who are good. »
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