Nine-month Waiting Period for Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza

RS Kalsi, executive director (Marketing & Sales), Maruti Suzuki India, told Autocar Professional that the Gurgaon plant has capacity to produce around 8500 units of Vitara Brezza currently. He said, “The demand for the Vitara Brezza is more than we had expected and we are gradually ramping-up the production capacity for the SUV as a similar scale-up of capacity has to be taken up at the vendors’ end as well. It will take some time and should be completed in the second half of the year.”

RC Bhargava, chairman, Maruti Suzuki India expressing his concern about the matter said, “We had planned for around 100,000 units annually and are on track to reach that figure. For scaling-up, vendors also have to deliver at such short notice. If there are about 200 suppliers and even one or two don’t supply in time, production will be affected,” he had said. “Nowhere in the world are production schedules so flexible or resilient that they can make substantial increases within a short period.”