Foto: Moguntia Food Group
Schwabe, Prokurist und Ein-kaufsleiter
bei Weber Maschi-nenbau:
„Bisher konnten wir
der angespannten Marktlage
gut entgegenwirken. Wir haben
an vielen Stellen vorgesorgt
und können durch unsere ex-trem
hohe Eigenfertigungstiefe
sehr flexibel reagieren. Das ist
gerade in der aktuellen Zeit ein
sehr großer Vorteil. Trotzdem
erwarten wir natürlich auch
weiterhin Herausforderungen
in der Versorgung mit einher-gehenden
Preissteigerungen
und werden daher weiter in die
Resilienz unserer Lieferkette
investieren.“ Ähnlich schätzt
Andreas Hager von Magurit
die Situation ein: „Jetzt, wo
anscheinend die Wirtschaft
in einigen Bereichen deutlich
wieder anzieht, kommt es ge-rade
im Rohmaterialbereich zu
Engpässen.“
Deutlich dramatischer sieht
die Lage für Christof Renz von
Wentus aus: „Seit Dezember
2020 verschärft sich die Be-kürzester
Zeit leergefegt. „Bis
Umfrage
Survey
Mitte des vergangenen Jahres
war das“ Schafflick zufolge
„schon eine sehr angespannte
Situation“.
Aktuell gebe es „gravieren-de
Versorgungsengpässe auf
den Rohstoffmärkten z. B. für
Edelstahl“. Die Folge seien
„erhebliche Materialpreisver-teuerungen
und zum Teil Lie-ferschwierigkeiten“.
„Ein Ende
dieser angespannten Situation
ist bis dato leider nicht abseh-bar“,
klagt der Vertriebsleiter.
Von „einigen Unsicherheiten“
und daraus resultierenden Zwi-schenkäufen,
„um die Lieferfä-higkeit
zu jeder Zeit aufrecht
erhalten zu können”, berichtet
Manfred Beck. Bei Moguntia
„war und ist die Lieferfähig-keit“
nach Angaben von Johan-nes
Tonauer „sichergestellt“.
Dafür seien allerdings „Kraft-anstrengungen
in den Berei-chen
Produktion und Einkauf“
nötig gewesen. Vorsichtigen
Optimismus verbreitet Robert
„Die Arbeitsbereiche
unseres Foodservice- und
unseres Export-Außenteams
waren eingeschränkt.“
“The working areas of our
foodservice and our export
field team were restricted.“
Johannes Tonauer,
Moguntia Food Group
agement that we would do
everything possible to prevent
short-time work.“ CEO To-
bias Weber today still stands
by this steadfastness unreser-
vedly: “We can also see from
our very positive business de-velopment
and order situation
that the exclusion of short-time
work was absolutely the right
decision for us.“
Short-time work was virtual-ly
a foreign word at Magurit,
the M Food Group, Kohlhoff
and VOS Schott. “Through
capacity adjustments in the
form of vacation and over-time
reductions and resilient
production in times of lower
order intake, we were able to
completely avoid staff reduc-tions
and short-time work,“
Andreas Hager reports. “Short-time
work was and is not an is-sue“
for Gregor Scheffer: “On
the contrary, we currently have
a huge dynamic in the com-pany
and are currently expe-riencing
an acceleration of in-ternal
company developments
and processes.“ Kohlhoff was
“only able to meet the in-creased
demand through over-time“;
Volkhard Schafflick:
“There was and is no talk of
short-time work at our compa-ny,
even now.“ Dirk Paasche
admits that at VOS Schott
there were after all “thought
games in connection with
what-if scenarios“ in the mana-
gement. Nevertheless, short-time
work was “at no time a
serious issue“.
One aspect that is likely to
occupy the industry for some
time to come is bottlenecks
in raw materials and sup-ply
chains. The statement by
Kohlhoff's Volkhard Schafflick
is symptomatic of this: “At the
beginning of the pandemic,
there were supply bottlenecks,
for example, for PE bottles for
disinfectants as well as special
pumps that were and are pri-marily
manufactured in Asia.“
During this time, he says, pro-duction
in China was also se-verely
restricted by the pan-demic,
and in some cases even
completely shut down. “The
market was depleted in a very
short time,“ he said. “Until the
middle of last year, that was“
according to Schafflick “al-ready
a very tense situation.“
Scarce raw materials
Currently, he said, there are
“serious supply bottlenecks on
the raw material markets for
stainless steel, for example.“
This results in “considerable
material price increases and
in some cases delivery prob-lems.“
“Unfortunately, there
is no end in sight to this tense
situation to date,“ complains
the sales manager. Manfred
Beck reports of “some uncer-tainties“
and the resulting in-terim
purchases “in order to be
able to maintain the ability to
deliver at all times“. At Mogun-tia,
“the ability to deliver was
and is ensured,“ according to
Johannes Tonauer. However,
“strenuous efforts in the areas
of production and purchasing“
were necessary to achieve
this. Robert Schwabe, authori-
zed signatory and purchasing
manager at Weber Maschinen-
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