Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 152 Alarmed Ai Xin

Thomas, a manager at Ford's purchasing center, has his own single-family house in the suburbs of Detroit.

With his high salary, he lived a comfortable life.

When the company originally arranged for him to go to China to serve as the director of Changan Ford's purchasing department, he was very unhappy.

In his perception, China is a country without toilets, and people go to the toilet at will on the street.

In his perception, China is a poor and backward country, and the buildings and transportation facilities in the cities are very dilapidated.

In his opinion, Chinese food is all spicy, such as hot pot, spicy hotpot, etc.

……

Anyway, he was very reluctant to go to China.

However, after arriving at Shuangqing, he found that many situations were inconsistent with his knowledge.

In just half a year, he was already a little happy and unwilling to miss his childhood.

This time the Purchasing Director Chris came over, and he would definitely entertain him as a landlord.

Especially the magical food in various hot pot restaurants, I want to take Chris to have a long experience.

What about duck blood, pig brains, sandworms, crocodile meat...

However, before the hot pot was eaten, Chris brought him a piece of bombshell news.

"All our automatic transmissions use 6AT, and then they are purchased directly from Nanshan Technology Co., Ltd. in Yangcheng?"

Chris has a very deep impression on Nanshan.

For the press order for the stamping workshop, Chris called himself specifically and asked him to treat the Chinese manufacturers "fairly and equitably".

Then the project team jointly established by Ji'er Machine Tool Factory and Nanshan won the bid for Changan Ford's press order.

Schuler had a big opinion.

Now Chris actually requires himself to purchase the 6AT automatic transmission from Nanshan.

Is this Nanshan owned by Chris’s brother-in-law?

Or is there Chris's share in this?

"Yes, this plan has been approved by the CEO, and the R&D center is also specifically promoting related tests."

"Not only that, in the future, the 6AT produced by our own Ford transmission factory will be the same as the one in Nanshan."

As if he knew what Thomas was thinking, Chris added next to him.

But when he added this, Thomas had more questions.

What does it mean that the 6AT produced by Ford's own transmission factory is the same as Nanshan?

Didn't Ford develop the 6AT itself?

"Chris, of course I will resolutely implement the decision of the headquarters, but I have never heard that Nanshan has made a gearbox."

"Aren't they the manufacturer of parts like presses and bearings?"

Although Thomas knew that his boss's boss couldn't joke with him, he still couldn't help but voice his doubts.

"It didn't happen before, but it will happen in the future!"

Toms: ...

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"Zhang Sang, have you heard of China's Nanshan Technology Co., Ltd.?"

At the Aisin AW Sales Department, Saburo Sato hung up the phone with a heavy face.

As someone who was stationed in the United States for four years, his English is definitely considered very good among Japanese people.

You won’t be able to talk for a long time and no one will know whether you are speaking English or Japanese.

With this advantage, he maintains good relationships with European and American customers.

Thomas, the purchasing director of Changan Ford, knew him when he was in the United States.

Now that the other party has come to China, Saburo Sato is even more eager to find opportunities to maintain a good relationship with him.

In the past six months, he basically flew to Shuangqing every month to meet Thomas for fun.

Go to the golf course during the day and play other golf balls at the clubhouse at night.

The relationship between the two is very good.

In this way, the 6AT gearbox imported from Toba City, Mie Prefecture, Japan, naturally has a relatively ideal price.

After all, exports to China and exports to the United States have different tariffs.

Therefore, even if the products are exactly the same as those supplied to Ford of America, the price is much higher.

After Thomas received that Changan Ford's transmission would use Nanshan 6AT, he immediately revealed the news to Aisin.

Of course, Thomas also specifically told the other party not to sell him out.

"Minister, I have heard of this company. It is quite famous in the field of bearings. It is said that SKF has suffered losses."

"What's wrong? Do they want to enter our supply system?"

"It should be difficult. Shibaura Machinery, Niigata Bearing (NKK), Kogakusha, and we also use some self-developed bearings."

"In this case, no matter how good Nanshan's bearing technology is, there is no chance."

Zhang Hao's first reaction was that Nanshan wanted to supply bearings to Aisin, so he had heard of some way to contact his own minister.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Sato said with a complex expression: "They don't want to be our supplier, they want to steal our orders."

"Ok?"

"Steal our order?"

"How do they steal our orders?"

"Not to mention the gearboxes, they can't grab them. Even the relatively simple air filters, fuel filters, oil filters, cabin filters, etc., they don't produce them."

Zhang Hao obviously did not realize the seriousness of the problem.

But seeing his minister's face getting darker and darker, his words gradually became less frequent.

"Minister, do they really want to make filters?"

"It would be great if it were like this. There are many Chinese manufacturers who want to make filters, and we are not afraid of adding another Nanshan company. But they are now making 6AT, and they have also taken orders from our Changan Ford."

Saburo Sato always felt that the phone call just now was so incredible.

If the other party hadn't been the purchasing director of Changan Ford, he would have definitely felt like someone was joking with him.

"What? Impossible!"

"Changan Ford's Fiesta and Mondeo are both directly imported mass-produced models from Ford of America, and the gearboxes inside are all supplied by us."

"How could it be robbed by Nanshan?"

Zhang Hao's first reaction was that Sato was joking with him.

But looking at Sato, whose face was getting more and more serious, he also realized that something was wrong.

"Minister, is this true?"

"Don't spread this matter out yet. Go to Yangcheng immediately. No matter what method you use, you must find out about Nanshan's situation in the gearbox field."

"I will also try to find out more about the situation in Nanshan through Spring City Toyota."

"Then we'll see how to report to the headquarters."

Sato, however, kept in mind Thomas's instructions on the phone just now and did not dare to make a big deal out of it right away.

Otherwise, Thomas will be sold by then.

However, there must be no lack of due investigation.

Moreover, he had to propose to the headquarters how to deal with Nanshan, and Nanshan could not be allowed to grow wildly like this.

This behavior undermines the order of the international gearbox market!

Must be suppressed!