Chen Geng quickly felt the pressure of Wolf Castle!

When Rosemary went to China to negotiate, the negotiations with the major production equipment providers were also carried out simultaneously, in this economic downturn, the major automakers began to reduce production capacity, and the original plan to increase production lines began to be suspended, for the major equipment suppliers, it is of course a good thing for someone to buy things, and everyone talked with each other very happily, but it seems that overnight, the equipment suppliers who had talked about it well suddenly changed their tone......

"Boss, the situation is a bit serious," Rosemary, who was sitting in front of Chen Geng, had a solemn expression: "ABB thought that the previous price was too low, and suddenly raised the price of the welding machine by 50%......"

"Why," Chen Geng asked strangely: "ABB's welding machine is the most expensive among the major welding machine manufacturers, and the price they gave us before was even slightly higher than the market price, why did they suddenly ask for a 50% price increase?"

"ABB's explanation is that they have to raise prices because of the rise in raw material prices due to the oil crisis......"

"Shit!" Before Rosemary finished speaking, Chen Geng couldn't help but scold: "This can also have something to do with the oil crisis?"

Even if it is really related to the oil crisis, but the biggest impact on the price of welding machines is copper, the international price of copper not only did not rise, but also fell a little, ABB used this reason to increase the price of its own welding machine, it is really nonsense.

Rosemary nodded, and he also felt that ABB's statement was extremely painful: "Not only ABB, but also Krupp." ”

"Krupp, their press is also going to increase in price by 50%?" Chen Geng's brows furrowed even more.

"No," Rosemary said with a gloomy face, "Krupp said that there is something wrong with their business statistics, and our order will be delayed for half a year at the earliest......"

Chen Geng suddenly raised his hand to stop Rosemary's words: "Needless to say." ”

Rosemary: "......"

Looking at Rosemary, Chen Geng said: "These equipment providers are suddenly making trouble for us at this time, and the time is still so consistent......

Rosemary nodded: "That's right, I can't think of any other reason other than Wolfsburg being behind the scenes." ”

There is no need for any verification, and no one else can do this except Wolfsburg.

After all, Wolfsburg Automobile is a company with a history of more than half a century, ranking first in the world's major automobile manufacturing enterprises (although it belongs to the position of the first series of crane tails or the second series of vanguards), but more than half a century of operation and the influence of the Porsche family all over the world, for the world's major automobile production equipment providers, is it to sell the Wolfsburg Group and the Porsche family a face, or for Chen Geng, although the design level is quite high, But in the industrial sector, it is simply a nobody who offends Wolfsburg and the Porsche family, and there is no need to weigh this issue at all.

Chen Geng felt that Wolfsburg Automobile did not even need to make any promises, but only needed to make a phone call to the shareholders of these production equipment manufacturers to explain the situation, saying that they needed a favor from everyone, and that when the negotiations with the Huaxia government were over, all the production equipment in the joint venture factory in Huaxia would be purchased from everyone, which was enough.

For major equipment manufacturers, in essence, the equipment purchased by the American Fernandez Company and the German Wolfsburg Group is a set of equipment at all, and it is the same to whoever it is sold to, but if it is sold to the Wolfsburg Group and can still make a good fortune, then why not sell it to the Wolfsburg Group?

For the Wolfsburg Group, it was really too simple to give themselves a little stumbling block.

"Interesting ......"

Faced with this result, Chen Geng smiled, but he was more curious about what Rosemary coped with: an annual salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, you can't take it for nothing, right?

Isn't it for nothing that she earns hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, or maybe millions or tens of millions of dollars a year, in the future? Rosemary quickly proved to her boss that she was indeed entitled to such a high salary and dividends......

"A complete automotive production line includes stamping, welding, painting, assembly of four major process production lines, these four production lines involve a wide range of industries, even ABB, FFT and Krupp, these production line providers can not provide all the equipment needed, they are more or play the role of system integrators, in addition to the part that can be produced by themselves, all the others have to be purchased, of which the proportion of self-production will not exceed 30%. ”

Speaking of this, Rosemary said confidently: "Comau, KUKA, ABB, FFT, Krupp and other system integrators do not cooperate with us? It doesn't matter, we invite experts and consulting companies, and then we purchase equipment from all over the world and integrate it ourselves!"

Integrate it yourself?

Chen Geng smiled: Sure enough, he didn't let himself down.

He smiled, "Tell me about it." ”

Rosemary nodded: "For example, the stamping process, from the whole process, is divided into blank storage, stamping production, sheet metal operations, and finished product storage.

The first process of uncoiling blanking, the need to buy from the steel mill into a coil of plates from the storage area to the shearing machine, a roll of automotive steel plate usually weighs about 10 tons, at this time the need to use the conveying equipment is the crane, the world can produce crane manufacturers so many, we just need to find a crane manufacturer that can meet our requirements.

For example, the next production process is the shearing of the steel plate, at this time, the shearing pendulum machine and the die shearing press are required, the shearing pendulum machine cuts the steel plate of the conventional size, and the mold shear press shears the irregular steel plate, in addition to the corresponding supporting automatic conveying device.

I don't know, but I think there are hundreds of manufacturers in the world, and as for the manufacturers that can produce automatic conveyors, I think they are at least ten times more than ten times that of machine tool manufacturers, and some machine tool manufacturers even provide supporting automatic conveyors themselves.

Next, we need to test the flatness of the cut steel plate, these testing equipment is easy to customize, and then to the next stamping link, usually need a 3000 tons to 5000 tons of pressure press with the corresponding mold, we just need to find a mold provider and press provider that can meet our accuracy requirements......"

After talking about all the main equipment required for the four major processes, Rosemary said with confidence: " So, as long as we find a consulting service company that can provide this kind of consulting services, and let them help us plan the most reasonable production process layout, even without the help of these system integrators, we can still do it, the only problem is that the cost will be slightly higher, and the efficiency of the production line may be slightly insufficient, but in my understanding of you, this part of the cost is what you are willing to bear, right?"

Chen Geng smiled.

Yes, rather than being blackmailed, Chen Geng would rather bear the rise of this part of the cost, and ......

"Who says the cost will be higher? What if I say that the cost of our production line will not only not go up, but will be reduced by at least 30%?"

"This can't be!" Rosemary said without thinking, "Comau, KUKA and other system integrators rely on perennial partnerships to get super preferential prices from these single equipment manufacturers, and we can't get such a price at all, our cost will only be higher, absolutely impossible to be cheaper." ”

"Soon you will know," Chen Geng's face was mysterious: "And let me tell you one more thing, we may be able to get an ultra-low or even interest-free long-term loan for this production line." ”

"It's even more unlikely!"

Rosemary thinks that her boss is going crazy, ultra-low interest or even interest-free long-term loans usually only exist in projects where the will of the state exists, and it is almost impossible for commercial banks to provide ultra-low-interest or even interest-free long-term loans to the outside world, for example, even if the relationship between Fernandez and the United Community Bank is so good, the United Community Bank can provide Fernandez with a certain amount of ultra-low-interest loans, and can also provide a certain amount of interest-free loans, but it is absolutely impossible to be ultra-low-interest or even interest-free long-term loans, which is determined by the basic nature of the bank, and the boss actually said that this project can get ultra-low-interest or even interest-free loans......

She suddenly reacted, looked at Chen Geng with a surprised face and said: "Are you talking about the Huaxia government? IMHO, boss, that's impossible, even if the Huaxia government has this heart, they don't have this money, this is a total amount of funds that may reach 10 million US dollars, this fund is ...... for the Huaxia government."

At this, she shook her head repeatedly.

Although I only stayed in China for half a month this time, I was deeply impressed by many places in this country, but I was particularly impressed by one point, that is: this country is very poor, it is too poor, and it is impossible for the boss to get an ultra-low or even interest-free long-term loan of 10 million US dollars from the Chinese government.

"Who said we were going to borrow money from the Huaxia government?" said Chen Geng with a mysterious smile.

"Isn't it the Huaxia government?" Rosemary was stunned for a moment.

Since the boss said that it is not the Huaxia government, it is definitely not the Huaxia government, since it is not the Huaxia government......

"Is that the U.S. government?" After a moment's thought, Rosemary frowned and said: "That's impossible, although the relationship between China and the United States has now been normalized, and the two governments are also committed to deepening economic and trade exchanges between the two countries, this project wants to achieve the support of the U.S. government......

She shook her head: "The economic and political resources that need to be spent are too great to be able to do now." ”

"No, it's neither the Chinese government nor the U.S. government. The expression on Chen Geng's face became more and more mysterious.