Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Tokyo, Nishiba Electric Headquarters.

Watanabe took a young man into President Tanaka's office.

"President Tanaka, these are the investigation reports of the Chinese factory and the Malaysian factory. Please take a look!" Watanabe Yu handed the two investigation reports to President Tanaka's desk.

President Tanaka took the report and did not open it to read it, but said, "Watanabe-kun, please give a brief introduction first!"

Watanabe Yu nodded and introduced: "Let me first talk about the situation of Malaysian factories. Malaysian factories adopt a pyramid management model. In terms of production, they have learned from the manufacturing resource planning of our Japanese companies and adopted the It is the management logic of planning, execution, and feedback. It plans and controls various production resources to meet the needs of production changes.

Malaysian factories incorporate production capacity operations, workshop operations and raw material supply operations into their plans, add feedback information from workshops, supply rooms and planners, and use this information to make urgent balance adjustments to the plan, thereby reducing material demand. Planning makes the production process form a unified system."

President Tanaka nodded: "Isn't this a management method commonly used by our Japanese companies in the 1970s!"

"Yes, the management model of the Malaysian factory is exactly what we learned from the management methods of our Japanese companies. Although we have not learned the essence of it, it is already very effective." Watanabe replied.

President Tanaka smiled slightly and said with pride: "Our Japanese companies have the most advanced management methods in the world. Malaysian factories are smart and they know how to learn from Japanese companies. Even if they only learn a little bit, it is enough for them to gain Success!"

Watanabe pointed at the young man next to him and said, "This is Satoshi Murata. He entered the Malaysian factory as a worker and worked on the front line for a month. He is very familiar with the actual situation of the Malaysian factory. Understood! I specially brought Murata-kun here today. If the president needs to know anything, you can ask Murata-kun directly."

"President Tanaka, if you want, my name is Satoshi Murata!" Satoshi Murata immediately stepped forward and bowed.

"Murata-kun, thank you for your hard work!" President Tanaka then praised him and then said, "Murata-kun, please introduce to me the labor situation in the Malaysian factory!"

"Yes, the workers in Malaysia are mainly composed of Malays, Chinese and Indians. In addition, there are also a small number of illegal immigrants from southeastern China working in factories in Malaysia. I am just pretending Stowaways enter Malaysian factories. Due to differences in culture, religious beliefs, etc., workers from the three ethnic groups do not have much communication with each other," Murata introduced.

"Then tell me about your work situation in the Malaysian factory!" President Tanaka then asked.

Satoshi Murata immediately replied: "Malaysian labor laws have clear regulations that normal working hours cannot exceed 8 hours a day and 48 hours a week.

If the working hours exceed the working hours, the employee must be paid 1.5 times the normal salary, 2 times the salary on rest days, and 3 times the salary on national statutory holidays.

In addition, employees must not work more than 12 hours a day, and overtime work cannot exceed 64 hours a month.

Moreover, employers must prepare a leave schedule for that month at the beginning of each month and inform employees which day of the week is their normal day.”

President Tanaka nodded silently: "This is similar to ours in Japan!"

Watanabe hurriedly said: "It seems that Malaysia is not only learning from Japan in terms of business management, but also learning from Japan in labor law!"

President Tanaka was very happy to hear this, and he continued: "Watanabe-kun, regarding the situation of the Malaysian factory, I will read your report in detail. Next, let's talk about the situation of the Chinese factory!"

"Okay." Watanabe Yuo cleared his throat with a dry cough, and then said: "Chinese factories adopt a model called militarized management."

"Military management?" President Tanaka was slightly startled, and he asked subconsciously: "Just like Japan during World War II, schools at that time adopted military camp-style management! I still remember that I was just a child at that time.

Already have to practice using the rifle in school!”

"The militarized management of Chinese factories is different from what you said. According to the offline explanation, militarized management means that an enterprise uses the military's management methods, management models and management experience as reference, and uses these management

A way to combine methods, management models and management experience with modern enterprise management." Watanabe explained.

President Tanaka frowned and thought about this sentence carefully.

Then President Tanaka said: "Watanabe-kun, can you introduce this kind of militarized management in detail?"

"Well, President, I'm very sorry. I have never heard of this kind of business management model before, so I still haven't figured out what the connotation of this militarized management is, but I know the specific measures of militarized management.

, I have already written it into the report!" Watanabe Xiong said.

President Tanaka glanced at the investigation report on the Chinese factory in front of him, and then asked: "Watanabe-kun, where is the person you sent to investigate the Chinese factory? Call him here, I want to ask him, who is the Chinese factory?

Actual situation!”

"President, I'm very sorry, Noda-kun can't come today!" Watanabe said slightly embarrassed.

"Why?" President Tanaka asked.

"He went to see a doctor." Watanabe replied.

"It turns out I'm sick!" President Tanaka nodded, and then asked: "What kind of disease is it? Is it serious?"

"Well..." Watanabe Yuo hesitated for a moment, then said, "Noda-kun is seeing a psychiatrist!"

President Tanaka frowned slightly, feeling suddenly uneasy.

It is well known to the whole world that Japanese office workers suffer from high mental stress, so most office workers have some psychological problems. Maybe a certain office worker who looks sanctimonious on the outside is actually a pervert on the inside. That kind of suit and leather suit

The well-dressed and energetic young man is most likely a perverted murderer.

If Noda-kun turns into a perverted murderer, Nishishiba Electric's reputation will be affected. Even if he is just a normal pervert, it is not a good thing.

Watanabe Yunori went on to explain: "After Noda-kun returned from China, whenever he worked overtime, he would feel nervous and anxious, accompanied by symptoms such as chills, sweating, and frequent urination!"

"This sounds like kidney deficiency!" President Tanaka thought to himself.

Watanabe Ou continued: "Noda-kun went to the hospital for a check-up and found that all physiological indicators were very normal, so the doctor judged that it should be caused by psychological problems. As far as I know, Noda-kun was investigating in a Chinese factory

During this period, he often worked overtime. I think it may be that he couldn't adapt to the overtime rhythm of Chinese factories, which caused mental illness!"

"Working overtime?" President Tanaka showed an incredulous expression; "How can we, the employees of Nishiba Electric, be afraid of working overtime!"

"Maybe it's because the overtime intensity in Chinese factories is relatively high!" Watanabe Yuo paused and then said: "According to Noda-kun's description, that level of overtime is simply inhumane!"

President Tanaka was slightly startled and thought to himself, is there any Japanese company that works overtime more fiercely than ours?

…

Malaysia, Penang.

This is where Malaysia’s manufacturing industry gathers.

In the 1980s, Malaysia proposed the "Look East" policy and opened its mind to the global transfer of labor-intensive industries. Large multinational companies have established OEMs and assembly plants on the west coast of Malaysia.

This also includes many Japanese companies, such as Mitsubishi, Toyota, Sharp, etc. When Japanese companies set up factories in Malaysia, they also brought their management to Malaysia. The management methods of Japanese companies were still world-renowned at that time, so

There are many factories in Malaysia that are learning from the management methods of Japanese companies.

Lin Jiye's factory learned the management model of Japanese companies.

Lin Jiye's ancestors came to Malaysia during the Qing Dynasty. The Lin family has been rooted in Malaysia for nearly a hundred years and is considered a relatively wealthy family among the local Chinese.

The ancestors of the Lin family were engaged in agriculture. The Lin family had several plantations, mainly growing cocoa, rubber and oil palm trees. However, Lin Jiye's generation was no longer satisfied with being a farmer. He took advantage of Malaysia's policy of vigorously developing industry.

A factory was built in Penang.

After several years of development, the Lin family's factory can be considered small and large-scale.

Now, Lin Jiye plans to take on the next big business, which is to become the foundry of Xizhi Electric Appliances.

Today is the day for Xizhi Electric's board of directors meeting. This time the board of directors will determine who will be Xizhi Electric's foundry. At this time, Lin Jiye is sitting by the phone, waiting for notification from Xizhi Electric.

"Brother-in-law, you've been waiting since early in the morning, and you haven't even eaten breakfast yet. Why don't you go and take a rest first? Just ask me here!" The person who spoke was Lin Jiye's brother-in-law.

Lin Jiye shook his head: "I don't feel at ease if I don't get the exact news!"

"Brother-in-law, you don't have to worry at all. The foundry of Xizhi Electric Appliances must belong to us! Our opponents are Chinese factories, how can they be our opponents!"

The brother-in-law paused and then said: "China is poor and backward. Their factories may not even be able to supply stable electricity, so how can they compare with us! What's more, we have learned the management techniques of Japanese companies, and we will definitely be able to obtain

Favored by Xizhi Electric!"

Lin Jiye nodded. He very much agreed with his brother-in-law's point of view. He also felt that Chinese factories were nothing to be afraid of.

In the 1990s, Malaysia was indeed more developed than China. At that time, Malaysia's manufacturing industry accounted for more than 40% of its GDP. It could be regarded as a country dominated by manufacturing. And Malaysia's various policies were indeed biased.

In the manufacturing industry, Malaysia's manufacturing industry has ushered in a golden period of development.

At that time, China was not yet the world's factory. In addition to relatively low labor costs, other aspects such as supply chain, transportation, power supply, business environment, and corporate management were not as good as Malaysia.

Therefore, Lin Jiye is very confident that Xizhi Electric will definitely choose him in the end.

At this moment, the phone on the table suddenly rang.

"I'll pick it up!" Lin Jiye immediately picked up the phone and said, "Hello!"

"Mr. Lin? My name is Watanabe Oo!" Watanabe Oo's voice rang on the phone.

"Hello, Mr. Watanabe, my name is Lin Jiye. Has the board of directors of Xizhi Group already had a result?" Lin Jiye asked, with a vague excitement in his tone.

"Yes, the board of directors has made a decision!" Watanabe paused and then said, "Mr. Lin, I am very sorry to inform you that the board of directors finally chose a Chinese factory!"

"What!" Lin Jiye wondered if his ears were broken.

After a few seconds of silence, Lin Jiye asked: "Why, why did Xizhi Electric choose a Chinese factory?"

"The board of directors made this choice after comprehensive evaluation and consideration," Watanabe said.

"Comprehensive evaluation? In what way is my factory inferior to Chinese factories?" Lin Jiye was a little angry and said, "Penang is the second largest city in Malaysia, with complete infrastructure and guaranteed power supply. Is it possible?

Is the infrastructure in Chinese cities better than ours?”

"Your competitor is located in a small city in China. Although there is no shortage of power supply there, the infrastructure is indeed not as good as Malaysia." Watanabe replied honestly.

"Penang is the most important port on the west coast of Malaysia. Shipping here is very convenient. The goods we produce can be directly shipped to all parts of the world. Are Chinese factories better than us in terms of transportation?" Lin Jiye asked again.

"No, the city where the Chinese factory is located is more than a hundred kilometers away from the nearest port. Although it only takes two or three hours to transport the goods to the port, it is not a coastal city after all." Watanabe replied.

"So the management level of Chinese factories is better than ours?" Lin Jiye asked again.

Watanabe Yu hesitated this time and said, "Mr. Lin, what you are using is the management model of Japanese companies. This is of course the most advanced management model in the world!"

Of course, Watanabe Yu cannot say that the management model of Japanese companies is inferior to people.

"Or maybe the business environment in China is better, and factories there can get more policy preferences or subsidies?" Lin Jiye asked next.

"As far as the business environment is concerned, Malaysia still needs to be more open." Watanabe said bluntly.

Lin Jiye, with a tone of dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction, then asked, "Since Chinese factories are not as good as ours in everything, then why did Xizhi Electric choose a Chinese factory?"

"Mr. Lin, as far as I know, the reason why Xizhi's board of directors chose the Chinese factory is mainly because the production efficiency of the Chinese factory is higher!" Watanabe replied.

"You said that the production efficiency of Chinese factories is higher than ours? How is this possible! I don't believe it! Every aspect of Chinese factories is not as good as my factory, why should they have higher production efficiency!" Lin Jiye replied immediately.

In Lin Jiye's mind, how can China, with its backward productivity, compare to his own factory in terms of production efficiency? You must know that his factory uses Japanese management methods.

But Watanabe Xiong said: "Mr. Lin, whether you believe it or not, this is the truth. Do you still remember that when I visited your factory, I left you an order for that batch of electric irons?"

"Of course, it only took us forty days to complete this batch of orders. Looking at the whole of Malaysia, and even the whole of Southeast Asia, no one can do it faster than us! I think even if we let Japanese companies do it,

, they won’t be faster than us!” Lin Jiye said confidently.

On the opposite side, Watanabe Yui let out a long sigh and said: "I gave the same batch of orders to the Chinese factory, and they only completed it in fourteen days!"

"We want forty days of work, but they only want fourteen days? This is impossible! Unless the workers in China are all robots, they don't need to eat or sleep, they just work!" Lin Jiye said angrily.

"Mr. Lin, of course Chinese workers are not robots. They also need to eat and sleep! But apart from eating and sleeping, they spend all the rest of their time working."

When Watanabe said this, he sighed helplessly and continued: "The inspector I sent to the Chinese factory is a famous workaholic at Nishizhi Electric. He works overtime every day, but after he experienced overtime in the Chinese factory,

I still need to see a psychiatrist!

The overtime work of Chinese workers is terrible, they can work fourteen hours a day! If it were Malaysian workers, would they be willing to work overtime?"

"We workers in Malaysia..." Lin Jiye was half-sentenced when he was speechless.

Lin Jiye knew that if Malaysian workers were asked to work overtime, they would dare to simply skip work and quit!

The Chinese may be more diligent, but the Malays will find a place to drink beer and chat as long as they earn enough food for the day. Typically, they don’t want to eat the next meal after one meal.

For Malays, they will not work overtime for 1.5 times the salary, and 2 times the salary on weekends and 3 times the salary on statutory holidays are not that attractive.

The cultural atmosphere in Southeast Asia as a whole is like this. They are unmotivated, very happy-go-lucky, and have no high pursuits in life. Just make a little money and it will be enough.

For Southeast Asians, who would go to work if they weren't hungry? Wouldn't it be better to lie at home and bask in the sun?

…

Several cars drove into the yard of the electric furnace factory, and a brand-new Santana got out of the car. A man in his early fifties got out. This man was tall and thin, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses. He looked like a high school student.

teacher.

In a car behind, several leaders from Dongcheng District got out of the car and gathered around the man.

Li Weidong immediately greeted him, and Xu Zhilong introduced him: "Leader, this is Factory Director Li Weidong!"

"Hello, leader, I am Li Weidong. Welcome to our factory to inspect our work!" Li Weidong said, shaking hands with the man in his fifties.

This man's name is Chen Chuanxin, who is the newly transferred deputy mayor and is in charge of the city's industry. Chen Chuanxin has a bachelor's degree, and it was not obtained through continuing education. He is considered the most highly educated person in the city's leadership team.

Li Weidong successfully took over the foundry of Xizhi Electric Appliances. This is undoubtedly a big success for a poor place like Qinghe. Of course, the city leaders must come to inspect it in person.

Li Weidong also knew that Chen Chuanxin was not the end. There would definitely be many leaders coming to inspect, not only from the city, but also from the province when they came to Qinghe.

Chen Chuanxin shook hands with Li Weidong and said in Mandarin: "I have long heard that Director Li is young and promising. When I saw him today, it turned out to be true!"

"As expected of an intellectual who has gone to university and can speak Mandarin!" Li Weidong thought to himself.

In the 1990s, in 18th-tier cities like Qinghe, Mandarin could only be heard on television or radio. Even the announcers at train stations or bus stations spoke dialects.

The steps for receiving leaders have been prepared in advance. First go to the conference room to listen to the report, then go to the workshop for an on-site inspection, and then go back to the conference room to summarize, let the leader give a speech, and put forward some symbolic opinions.

and suggestions, and then a few words of encouragement, and it’s over.

Li Weidong has already prepared the content of the report, which is nothing more than making the process of winning the Xizhi Electrical Appliances OEM factory more complicated and difficult to highlight how difficult it is for him.

As the saying goes, if there are difficulties, exaggerate them; if there are no difficulties, make them up, and then exaggerate them some more. This is probably what it looks like.

If you make things too simple, your boss will think that even cats and dogs can do it, so it is definitely not a very important matter, and they will not take you seriously in the future.

Next, Li Weidong accompanied Chen Chuanxin to visit the production workshop.

Looking at the workers on the assembly line, Chen Chuanxin couldn't help but sigh: "Director Li, the workers here are all uniformly dressed. Nowadays, many large state-owned enterprises cannot do this!"

"Leader, what we adopt is militarized management! This uniform dress is only part of the militarized management. Xizhi Electric also chose us as the foundry because of our militarized management." Li Weidong said, adding what

It is a brief introduction to military management.

Chen Chuanxin seemed to be very interested in militarized management. After learning about the contents of militarized management, he went to visit the canteen and dormitories.

After that, everyone returned to the conference room. According to the process, it was the leader's turn to give a summary.

Chen Chuanxin did not make a concluding speech immediately, but asked: "Director Li, as far as I know, OEM factories often need more workers. I think your factory does not have many workers, less than one

Thousands, if we want to expand production scale in the future, we should still need to recruit workers, right?"

"Yes, Xizhi Electric's small home appliance orders will not be transferred all at once. This is a process of several years. This also gives our factory a buffer time, during which we can expand in a planned way.

Expand production." Li Weidong replied.

"Director Li, I am here to make a request to your factory." Chen Chuanxin paused and then said: "In the future, when your factory recruits workers, don't just focus on the villages under the jurisdiction of Xiangyang Town.

, you can recruit workers from the entire Dongcheng District, and even our entire Qinghe City!"

"What does the leader mean by asking me to recruit workers in other counties?" Li Weidong asked.

Chen Chuanxin nodded: "Yes, especially those agricultural counties. We still have six national-level poverty-stricken counties, as well as many impoverished towns and villages, with a large number of rural surplus labor! They are also very hard-working and very suitable for factory work!"

Li Weidong nodded in sudden realization.

"I remembered that Chen Chuanxin seems to be responsible for the city's poverty alleviation work!"