Automotive industry: Missing parts – BMW cancels shifts

According to sources, a total of three plants will be affected. It's just a matter of individual layers - but each of them probably affects hundreds of cars.

BMW factory in Leipzig: There are bottlenecks in the supply of parts. Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa

The car manufacturer BMW is having problems with missing parts. “Due to short-term bottlenecks in the external supply of parts, shift cancellations have occurred or are currently occurring in individual BMW Group plants,” said a spokesman when asked.

The company did not comment on which parts were missing and why. According to company circles, three plants are or were affected - specifically Regensburg, Leipzig and Oxford.

A spokesman said they are in close contact with the supplier network and have taken measures “to stabilize the supply of parts and resume production.” There was initially no concrete information about how much production was lost.

Last year, BMW produced almost 357,000 cars at the Regensburg plant, almost 260,000 in Leipzig and around 124,000 in Oxford. A single lost shift can affect several hundred cars there. However, experience shows that such failures can often be made up for.