Electromobility and beyond The challenges and opportunities for automotive suppliers in 2025

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The automotive industry is at a crossroads, grappling with the shift to electromobility, rising costs, and intense competition. For suppliers, adapting to this transformation requires more than resilience — it demands innovation.

The current crisis in the automotive industry is confronting automotive suppliers with massive challenges: a weak order situation and the shift to electric mobility, coupled with rising costs and strong price pressure from OEMs, as well as the need to maintain high quality standards, are delaying a rapid recovery in the industry. 2025 is therefore likely to be a challenging year for the automotive industry. If the demands on automotive suppliers are to increase, their processes must change. IT is needed for this. It creates the basis for all changes, innovations and seamless collaboration with partners around the world. Thomas Forst, Principal Industry Manager Series Production (focus on automotive) at All for One Group, highlights the growing importance of current IT trends and the opportunities they open up for automotive suppliers.

Electromobility is causing major upheaval

Suppliers must also adapt and realign their portfolios in the wake of electromobility. They need to optimise existing components for e-mobility or develop new products. They must be creative and innovative and work closely with their business partners. Company structures are also changing: business units are being closed or added. All of this requires an IT landscape that allows for continuous change, promotes collaboration, provides new technologies and can map rapid innovation cycles.