Home
Letters to Editor
Domestic
World
Business & Trade
Culture & Science
Travel
Society
Government
Opinions
Policy Making in Depth
People
Investment
Life
Books/Reviews
News of This Week
Learning Chinese
Sony to Shift Parts Supplies to China

Sony Corp, the second-largest consumer-electronics maker, will reduce parts procurement from Japanese suppliers and boost purchases from China's mainland, Taiwan region and Malaysia to cut costs, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said.

Of the annual 200 billion yen (US$1.7 billion) of parts Sony buys at home to make audio-visual and other products, the company plans to order half from Asian manufacturers outside Japan, up from 10 percent, said the report, which didn't cite sources. Japanese suppliers will be cut to 1,000 from about 2,500, it said.

Japanese parts makers are suffering as consumer-electronics makers order fewer parts amid a global economic slowdown. While some electronic component makers like Kyocera Corp. are shifting production to China, where labor costs are cheaper, others must follow in that path to remain profitable, an analyst said.

"Finding a new maker and forming a relationship of trust with that maker is really quite a time consuming process" for a consumer-electronics maker like Sony, said Hiroyuki Matsumoto, an analyst at Kokusai Securities Co "So the move won't affect Japanese parts makers right away. They'll have time to think (about their strategy)."

Sony also wants to purchase more parts from other Asian countries for use at US and European assembly plants to help trim its 500 billion yen in worldwide procurement costs by 20 percent, the newspaper reported. The parts are those commonly used like motors and capacitors that regulate electricity flow in consumer electronics, it said.

Officials at Sony couldn't be reached to comment.

Sony has said it expects to weather the global economic slowdown without firing tens of thousands of workers like Japanese rivals because it is already cutting costs and has shut or closed many of its factories.

The maker of the PlayStation 2 video-game console had an unexpected fiscal first-quarter loss for the period ended June 30. The company also cut its full-year group net profit forecast by 40 percent to 90 billion yen amid waning demand for televisions and mobile phones.

Sony's electronics division, which accounts for 75 percent of sales, had a loss in the first quarter on weaker demand for its television sets and other consumer products. The company was also faced with the recall of 1.1 million faulty mobile phones in Japan and early retirement costs at Aiwa Co, a money-losing unit that makes lower-priced cassette recorders and CD players.

"Electronics sales were about 10 percent lower than our projections in April," Sony Chief Financial Officer Teruhisa Tokunaka said on July 26 when Sony announced first- quarter earnings. "Recovery in the electronics industry this year is difficult."

Some suppliers of parts to Sony are already shifting production to China.

Kyocera Corp, the biggest maker of ceramic casings to protect semiconductors, last month announced a plan to increase parts and equipment production in China fourfold by the year ending March 2003 to 105 billion yen.

The Kyoto-based company says labor costs at its parts plants in China are about 1/30th those in Japan.

(China Daily 09/27/2001)

Copyright ? China Internet Information Center. All Rights Reserved
E-mail: webmaster@china.org.cn Tel: 86-10-68996214/15/16
主站蜘蛛池模板: 三根一起会坏掉的好痛免费三级全黄的视频在线观看 | 中文字幕一区在线| 欧美大成色www永久网站婷| 午夜成人理论福利片| 青青青青久久国产片免费精品| 国产精品亚洲一区二区三区| 一区二区三区无码视频免费福利 | 亚洲av产在线精品亚洲第一站| 欧美日韩视频免费播放| 免费a级毛片18以上观看精品| 色爱无码av综合区| 国产欧美曰韩一区二区三区| 2021国内精品久久久久久影院| 在线观看免费av网站| yy11111光电影院手机版| 成人午夜免费福利视频| 中文字幕无码免费久久9一区9| 日本在线电影一区二区三区| 久久经典免费视频| 极品美女aⅴ高清在线观看| 亚洲国产精品sss在线观看AV| 欧美黑人又粗又大久久久| 亚洲高清毛片一区二区| 男人靠女人免费视频网站在线观看 | 久草资源福利站| 欧美性色黄在线视| 亚洲精品欧美精品日韩精品| 男人边吃奶边激烈摸下面的视频 | 精品国产一区二区三区久久| 四虎884tt紧急大通知| 色多多成视频人在线观看| 国产亚洲精品第一综合| 青娱乐在线视频免费观看| 国产午夜精品一区二区| 香蕉视频黄色在线观看| 国产成人亚洲毛片| 国产激情视频在线观看首页| 国产日韩AV免费无码一区二区| 日韩精品一区二区三区中文精品| 国产精品亚洲欧美一级久久精品 | yy4080私人影院6080青苹果手机|