Thursday, December 1, 2011

Why the SLA battery prices vary too much between suppliers?

Most of the SLA batteries used in small and medium size applications (up to 12V 75Ahr) batteries (also called General Purpose batteries) and imported from countries like China, Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam.  Almost all of the OEMs buy these batteries from Asia and often they private label them.  Over the last twenty years the manufacturers in Asia improved the quality of the products they manufacture.

The reasons for wide range of pricing is due to several reasons.

*  Operational efficiency of a company
*  Expected profit margins
*  Company overhead
*  Volume of the products they sell
*  Inventory levels kept etc.,

Since there are hundreds of suppliers manufacture these products the price due to volume is negligible.  If you have good quality check during manufacturing process and efficient supply chain, quality business process and expecting reasonable margins one can afford to sell these products significantly lower compared to big OEMs.
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