Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 115: Go out with a stick and injure a group of giants

Zeng Tingting followed Cao Yang, and her way of thinking slowly caught up with the rhythm.

Dealing with SKF is the focus of Cao Yang's work during this period.

Now that Cao Yang has promoted antitrust investigations in the United States, she immediately thought of something.

"What? Are you going to shave off SKF's wool?"

Although Nanshan's current scale is still far behind SKF, Cao Yang's mentality is very stable.

I am still in the mood to joke.

"whee."

"Who asked them to provoke us?"

"If we don't rub it on the floor, there might be parts giants who want to deal with us later."

"After all, Mr. Cao, you have even arranged for people to study gearboxes and machine tools."

"In the future, the company will definitely be involved in more and more fields, and there will be more and more competitors."

"If you don't give the first bird a hard slap, there will be a lot of trouble in the future."

Zeng Tingting's words touched Cao Yang's heart.

Bully the soft and fear the hard.

This is true no matter what field you are in.

In the workplace, when leaders are looking for people to work for, they are not willing to look for thorns, but prefer to look for honest people.

When automobile companies cut prices, parts giants cannot do so, so they use fully competitive manufacturers as weak targets.

Nanshan Technology Co., Ltd. must not make people feel like a soft persimmon.

Otherwise, there will be endless troubles.

"How do you want to trick SKF again?"

"It's very simple. The United States has already launched an antitrust investigation into auto parts. Let's find a way to promote it and let the EU also launch an antitrust investigation into auto parts."

"I don't believe that manufacturers like SKF will honestly bid in Europe."

"They must have formed a tacit understanding in private with Schaeffler and other bearing manufacturers, which violated antitrust laws."

Zeng Tingting's proposal is not very innovative.

But it is very feasible.

In Europe, Volkswagen, Renault, Peugeot Citroën, Fiat and other car companies still rank very well in the world.

The local market share is also very high.

Japanese companies can prosper in the United States, but they are not so successful in Europe.

"Find an opportunity to mention it to people at Volkswagen and PSA to see if they are interested."

"Even if it can't be done, at least it can make SKF and the others nervous."

Cao Yang had no reason to object to the young secretary's proposal.

To cause trouble for your opponents is to help your own development.

"Yes, we must make SKF suffer a lot this time."

"Didn't we make use of the Yahoo Auto Channel before?"

"I think we can use it again this time."

A new idea popped up in Zeng Tingting's mind, which surprised Cao Yang.

"How do you want to use it?"

Seeing that her boss was very interested, Zeng Tingting was also very enthusiastic and said: "Just break the news to them that the American auto parts antitrust investigation was started because of SKF, and you can even make up some materials. Expose the content of the price alliance between SKF and bearing giants such as NTN and JTEKT."

"It's just a story anyway. If it's true or false, even if the details don't match up, there's no problem with the logic."

"SKF will definitely become the target of public criticism."

When Zeng Tingting announced this plan, Cao Yang's reaction was much greater than before.

After all, trying to push the EU to engage in anti-monopoly is just a matter of imitation.

But now this operation is completely different.

The key is that it sounds very feasible, and it can also have a very direct adverse impact on SKF.

"Your idea is very good. When the time comes, we can even guide the editors of the Yahoo Auto Channel to dig deeper into this topic."

"I have a hunch that this antitrust case in the auto parts industry will be one of the hottest news in the American auto market in 2001."

After Cao Yang gave a positive reply, Zeng Tingting immediately started to implement it.

In the past few days, the American judiciary has taken frequent actions.

In addition to the first wave of including bearing manufacturers into the investigation, now Japan's Furukawa, Fujikura, Yazaki and Germany's Leoni and other wire harness manufacturers have been included in the antitrust investigation.

In order to prevent other international parts giants from smelling something wrong, they began to destroy evidence.

In the following days, new parts were specifically investigated almost every day.

Autoliv!

Denso!

Bosch!

Mitsubishi Electric!

Hitachi Automotive Systems!

Kangnaike!

Three leaves!

Bridgestone!

Tokai Physics!

……

A large number of parts giants have been included in the investigation.

This made the topic of antitrust in auto parts extremely hot.

Whether it is American media, Japanese, European, or Chinese media, they are all paying attention to and reporting relevant news.

The automobile industry is an industry with a very long industrial chain and a great impact on the economy.

Cars are something that many people are relatively familiar with.

In addition, countless consumers feel that replacement parts are very expensive when repairing their cars, and they have strong opinions on the cost of parts.

Now the United States has brought out these parts giants as the culprits, which has immediately aroused everyone's attention.

At this time, Zeng Tingting's revelation to Yahoo Auto naturally made the front page headlines of the Yahoo Auto Channel.

Let SKF become the center of this storm.

"Chris, you did a great job this time!"

"We must take this opportunity to ask those parts manufacturers to lower their prices for us."

"You tell them that if they don't cooperate with our price reductions, the amount of fines from the antitrust investigation will be beyond their imagination."

Inside Ford, CEO Jacques Nasser is listening to Chris' report.

As a professional manager outside the Ford family, Nasser was also under great pressure.

Especially the first quarter financial report was ugly, and many people blamed him.

Therefore, Nasser's enthusiasm for reducing costs and increasing efficiency is definitely very high.

The purchasing center can come up with such novel ideas, and he fully supports it.

Otherwise, how could this antitrust investigation be so violent?

"I have arranged for various purchasing managers to contact parts manufacturers involved in antitrust investigations and require them to achieve a 10% price reduction task this year."

"Otherwise, we'll be waiting for a sky-high fine."

Chris was very high-spirited at this time.

The purchasing center's status within Ford has never been very high.

Not only is there no way to compare with R&D and sales, but the status of each factory, technical department, and even the logistics department is higher than that of procurement.

Now Chris can finally work his way up within the company.