Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 826: Changes in America’s Attitude, Any Means Used (Page 13)

The day after Venus Technology and the European Space Agency officially signed the contract, the first batch of contract funds arrived in Venus Technology's account.

The European Space Agency's first batch of Starlink satellites were officially airlifted to Yangcheng and are ready to be launched a week later.

These arrangements are all announced on the official website of the European Space Agency and the official WeChat account of Daystar.

In Europe, after Cao Yang participated in the signing event of Daystar Technology, he immediately signed a huge order with Volkswagen to purchase gearboxes.

未来五年,大众汽车在全球将会向南山变速箱采购超过500万台6AT、8AT和10AT等各种自动变速箱,合同金额超过500亿人民币。

These actions appear one after another, which has brought huge impact to many enterprises.

"Okumura, Volkswagen has completely come together with Nanshan Transmission. They actually signed a large order to purchase 5 million transmissions in five years."

Hisato Yoshikawa looked at the news about Volkswagen and Nanshan gearboxes reported on the Yahoo Japan website, feeling quite heavy.

Aisin used to be a supplier to Volkswagen. Even in the American market, Volkswagen has recently been communicating with Aisin and is preparing to use Aisin's gearboxes in some models.

But this scale is definitely not as many as 100 million units a year.

More often than not, Volkswagen purchases gearboxes from Aisin as a measure to diversify its supply system, and it does not really want to cooperate in depth with Aisin.

Otherwise, Volkswagen would not have signed such a strategic cooperation agreement with Nanshan Transmission separately.

As for Aisin, Volkswagen has never mentioned signing such a thing.

"Volkswagen's market distribution determines that it is impossible for them to abandon the Chinese market. After all, it is their largest market besides Germany."

"The parent company of Nanshan Transmission has a strong influence in China's automobile industry. Even Volkswagen's two partners in China have a very close relationship with Nanshan Automobile Group."

"Under such circumstances, if Volkswagen wants to develop smoothly in China, it cannot continue to offend Nanshan Gearbox."

"Their choice is not so much that Nanshan Gearbox defeated us, but rather that the Chinese market defeated the Japanese market."

As the head of Aisin's sales headquarters, Okumura is responsible for global sales.

He has a very good understanding of the ideas of various OEMs.

To some extent, his analysis cannot be said to be unreasonable.

"The Chinese automobile market is already the largest market in the world, and it continues to grow every year."

"In this case, we really have no way to compare with their market influence."

"However, we cannot allow Nanshan Gearbox to continue to develop, otherwise our situation will become more and more troublesome."

Hisato Yoshikawa felt a crisis from the cooperation between Volkswagen and Nanshan Transmission.

Ford and General Motors, two major manufacturers, will definitely continue to use their own transmissions in the future.

Honda and Nissan, two Japanese car companies, basically use their own transmissions.

Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW basically rarely use Aisin gearboxes. People consider more ZF and Nanshan gearboxes.

As for Korean car companies, they also have their own gearbox companies and will not purchase them from outside.

As a result, Aisin can basically only do Toyota Motor business.

Although Toyota Motor is very large, the business of this company alone can make Aisin a world-renowned gearbox company.

But Hisato Yoshikawa is definitely not willing to simply supply Toyota Motor.

“To compete with Nanshan Transmission, we must have sufficient advantages in cost.”

"Otherwise, it will be difficult to attract various car companies to change their minds."

Okumura knows how to compare technologies, and Aisin and Nanshan gearboxes have no special advantages.

As for quality, Nanshan Transmission's products have not had any major problems over the years. Not to mention that the quality is better than Aisin, at least it is not worse.

Then the only thing left to compare is the cost.

If compared with European and American companies in this regard, Aisin definitely has an advantage.

But compared with Nanshan Gearbox, which is a Chinese company, it is completely inferior.

In Japan, a worker in his thirties can earn more than three million yen a year.

Around 2013, when the value of the Japanese yen was relatively high, one yuan could only be exchanged for about 13 yen, and even exaggeratedly, it could only be exchanged for 12 yen.

How is it like in later generations, 1 yuan can be exchanged for 20 yen, or even 21 yen.

Based on this calculation, the annual salary of Japanese workers reaches more than 30 yuan, which is close to yuan.

In China, a company whose front-line workers can earn an annual salary of 10 yuan is definitely a conscientious company in the industry.

Even in 2013, workers could get an annual salary of to yuan, which was already considered very good.

The labor cost varies greatly, and ultimately it falls on the processing fee, management fee, and development fee of the parts, and there will be a big gap.

This will even cause the raw materials, outsourced parts and other things you purchase to be higher than those from Huaxia. It is normal for the final production cost to be higher than that of Huaxia.

“To reduce costs, we can only build factories on land where labor costs are relatively low.”

"From now on, all the gearboxes we supply in the Chinese market will be produced in the Huaxia factory."

"Transmissions supplied in other markets should be produced in Southeast Asia or Mexico as much as possible to reduce production costs to the greatest extent."

Hisato Yoshikawa was forced to make a difficult decision.

For many Japanese companies, all parts are produced locally in Japan and then sold around the world. This is the situation they most want to see.

This is also the easiest situation for them.

However, in the fierce market competition, this situation is destined to be unsustainable.

Unless the products you produce have their own unique advantages on a global scale, others will have to choose to buy from you all the time.

Otherwise, in the end, companies that are unwilling to go abroad will not be able to continue to develop and grow.

"Raw materials, components, equipment and other things must all be purchased locally from production plants to fully reflect the cost advantage."

"Especially in China, we have to try our best to achieve the same cost level as Nanshan Transmission, or even a lower cost."

Okumura specifically emphasized the situation in the Chinese market, which made Yoshikawa Hisato a little depressed.

Because everything is produced in China, this is actually inconsistent with Aisin’s previous internal development strategy.

But the situation is stronger than the people. If Aisin doesn't make some changes, it will be very difficult to get more orders in China in the future.

Unlike Aisin's internal struggles, BMW China is much more optimistic about the agreement signed between the headquarters and Nanshan Transmission.

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