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With advancements in technology and the ongoing maturation of the market, a price war regarding solar street lights has recently emerged. As the market evolves, it has begun to impact industries such as LED street light sources, solar panels, and batteries, prompting both active and passive price adjustments. What should manufacturers of solar street lights and related LED lighting companies do to respond?
1. Information Age.
The gross margin of traditional pure product trading will increasingly approach zero over time. With the transparency brought by e-commerce and other information channels, the profit margins from pure trading segments are yielding to near zero, creating a significant trend. For traditional enterprises, the gross profit in transaction segments will continue to trend towards zero for free transactions. Thus, it becomes essential to derive profits through other marginal services, such as obtaining profits via financial means. Simply relying on a product trading model fails to create an industry-level solution platform for optimizing and integrating the industry. As the market for solar street lights matures, some platform companies have emerged that disrupt the current profitability model, not relying on the price difference between manufacturer and end user to generate income. By smoothing out price differences, they create other revenue streams.
2. In the semiconductor industry, as pricing trends move towards homogeneity and standardization, solar street light manufacturers need to find appropriate market positioning.
After the price wars, the manufacturers that survive and claim market share are predominantly larger companies with strong cost advantages. Standardized pricing is becoming the mainstream trend. In the context of mainstream products capturing major market shares, the pricing differential capability for market differentiation also becomes limited. Lighting products increasingly reflect the pricing patterns seen in the semiconductor industry, but suitable market positioning will ensure a company’s survival and continuous growth.
3. The acceleration of product updates necessitates appropriate inventory management for production and market channels.
With the flattening of information channels through the internet, distributors also engage with and form their own market forecasts, influencing the levels of constructed inventory and the direction of capital deployment. If businesses continue utilizing traditional inventory chains amidst persistent decreases in semiconductor pricing, they will introduce significant operational risks for both the firm and its distributors.
For companies and distributors, having a limited product line makes it challenging to meet client solution needs. The inability to quickly respond with stocked product lines leads to prolonged order cycles and poor customer experience, resulting in high attrition rates. However, being overstocked in a declining price environment will risk substantial financial losses.
4. Solar street light manufacturers must address competition through upgraded strategies.
Currently, companies regard product sales as part of the business itself or as tools for business operations, aiming not just for direct profit but for generating ‘chemical reactions’ through the product as a medium, which is difficult for others to replicate and presents high barriers. Solar street light manufacturers should continuously learn and explore through competition, enhancing their competitive mindset and structure to disrupt existing competitive landscapes. This could include introducing financial services, enhancing customer service, or acquiring marginal benefits.
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