Half of the 150,000 shortfall in Toyota's February production will come from Japan, the rest from overseas
TOKYO – After holding strong for months, Toyota Motor Corp. now expects to miss its global production target as the automaker capitulates to the double whammy of parts shortages and the pandemic.
Toyota said it expects global production to come in under the 9 million-vehicle target for its fiscal year to March 31 that the company had been clinging to since last autumn. It's the second time this fiscal year that Toyota has dialed down its companywide production figure.
V izjavi v torek v torek je Toyota dejala, da bo pomanjkanje polprevodnikov prisililo, da bo februarja zmanjšalo svetovno proizvodnjo za 150000 enot na približno 700000 vozil. Toyota je za februarsko recesijo krivila krizo mikročipov.
That, in turn, will make it very difficult to reach the company's 9 million target.
"Current demand is very strong, therefore we were aiming for a high February production plan. However, due to the impact of the continuing demand for semiconductors across all industries, we have adjusted our production plan," Toyota said in the statement.
"As a result of the revision, the full-year production forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022, is expected to be lower than the previous forecast of 9 million units," Toyota said.
Global procurement manager Kazunari Kumakura said after the announcement that achieving 9 million would entail producing more than 1 million units in March alone – a very tall order.
"It will be very challenging for us to achieve the target," Kumakura said.
Toyota ni povedala, kakšen bi bil novi cilj proizvodnje in kdaj bo razkrit.
Toyota je začela tekoče proračunsko leto s ciljem 9,3 milijona vozil v 12 mesecih, ki se končajo 31. marca. Podjetje je v veliki meri zmešalo industrijo s povečanjem proizvodnje in rekordnim dobičkom kljub pandemiji{4}}mikročipov. Toda lani poleti je Toyota končno podlegla svetovni upočasnitvi in se pridružila tekmecem pri umiku proizvodnje.
Last fall, it sounded an optimistic note saying that in December all 14 plants and 28 production lines in Japan would be "operating normally" for the first time since May. But in its latest guidance, Toyota said February suspensions would hit 11 lines at eight plants in the home market.
Kumakura didn't give a regional breakdown of 150,000-unit reduction for February. But he said roughly half of the shortfall would come from Japan and the rest from overseas.
Upočasnitve na Japonskem bodo vplivale na proizvodnjo takšnih tablic z imenom, kot so Toyota Prius, RAV4, C-HR in Camry, pa tudi na modele Lexus, vključno z limuzinami LS in IS ter križancami NX in UX.
Toyota Motor North America also said it would lose production of approximately 25,000 to 35,000 vehicles from its North American plants in February because of "supply chain and COVID-related challenges."
Toyota said it does "not anticipate any impact to employment at this time" because of the shortages.
Toyota's February production plan is up from output of 668,000 vehicles in February 2021, when Toyota was racing to recover from the COVID-19 slowdowns. But the pace is still down from the 725,696 vehicles it churned out in February 2019 before the coronavirus hit.
Toyota already missed its November target of making between 850,000 and 900,000 vehicles worldwide. That target represented a downward revision from Toyota's original goal of 1 million units in November. But the carmaker managed to produce only 821,329 vehicles that month.
For the current fiscal year through November, Toyota's global output stood at about 5.53 million vehicles, or about 3.47 million vehicles shy of its 9 million fiscal-year production target.
Achieving the goal would mean averaging output of 867,000 units a month from December through March – an increasingly hard target, especially given February's 700,000 forecast.
Toyota had earlier said global production would reach 800,000 units in December and 800,000 in January. But it hasn't announced official production results for those months yet.
Kljub pomanjkanju čipov, zmanjšanju proizvodnje in stagnaciji prodaje je Toyota v drugem fiskalnem četrtletju julija-septembra dosegla 48-odstotni porast dobička iz poslovanja.
Na podlagi agresivnega nadzora stroškov in ugodnih deviznih tečajev je Toyota tudi dvignila svoje celoletne{0}}letne napovedi dobička na skoraj rekordne ravni, čeprav je zmanjšala obete glede prodaje.
