Porsche’s chief government warned on Monday that the German luxurious automaker’s day by day operations could possibly be affected over the approaching months by a “very critical” international semiconductor scarcity.

“The semiconductor subject is a really critical one as a result of the entire business is affected due to the large demand of client electronics and the sooner return of the automotive sector,” Oliver Blume, chief government of Porsche, informed CNBC’s “Squawk Field Europe” on Monday.

“We could possibly be affected on daily basis, so we watch very deeply (over) the subsequent days and months what we are able to do. Now we have to chill out quick time period and search for measures long run.”

His feedback come after a sudden upsurge in international automotive gross sales late final 12 months coincided with a shortfall of important chip parts. The availability shortages introduced meeting traces of the chip-reliant automotive business to a standstill and halted the manufacturing of a whole lot of hundreds of autos worldwide.

Demand for these chips, or semiconductors, has soared during the coronavirus pandemic as shoppers snapped up video games consoles, laptops and TVs throughout a interval of diminished mobility.

Now, many of those merchandise — together with sure Chromebook laptops and next-generation consoles just like the Xbox Collection X and the PlayStation 5 — are both offered out or topic to prolonged delivery occasions.

The chip shortages have hit the automotive sector particularly onerous, analysts say, due to the business’s “just-in-time” provide chain, which the automotive business has relied upon for many years in a bid to protect capital.

When requested whether or not Porsche could possibly be compelled to rethink this provide chain mannequin, Blume replied: “Sure. That is essential for the long run to consider the availability chain.”

“Now we have to consider what storage do we’d like actually for all these shares. Now we have to be extra versatile and we’ve to plan extra deeply the quick capacities.”

Shares of Porsche, listed on Germany’s Xetra Dax index, are up 15% year-to-date. The inventory value is little modified over the past 12 months.

— CNBC’s Sam Shead contributed to this report.