Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Two days later, Cook and more than 30 entrepreneurs from Neon and Korea got together.

As for the reason for this gathering, it was to have a meal with old friends after resignation, to catch up with each other, although no one took this reason seriously.

But at the beginning of the dinner, we were still chatting about some daily things, and there were even gossips about various bigwigs in the industry. To be honest, we usually don’t have a good relationship, but they are still very close at the moment.

This simple friendship was not broken until someone asked, "I heard that Dafeng Group wants to poach Mr. Cook to take charge of their global supply chain building issues."

Whether the person who asked the question was arranged in advance, no one knows, and no one will care about this detail anyway.

Cook nodded without hesitation, "I have already promised the Gale Group."

"Oh? Although there have been rumors for a long time, it is still a bit surprising to confirm the news. Could Mr. Cook tell us your thoughts?" Someone then pushed the dinner to the point.

Cook asked directly, "What do you think about the recent chaos in the global supply chain?"

After everyone looked at each other, Li Zairong responded, "The Dafeng Group plays an extremely important role in the global supply chain. The chaos in the global supply chain can be said to be caused by the troubles encountered by the Dafeng Group. This is enough to see Given the strength and status of the Dafeng Group, Mr. Cook chose the Dafeng Group for this reason."

Cook smiled and shook his head, "The reason why I went to Dafeng Group is indeed because of the strength of Dafeng Group, but it may not be the strength that Mr. Li understands, and the focus is different."

Li Zairong asked directly, "I wonder what Mr. Cook's focus is?"

Cook replied seemingly casually, "The essence of global business partnerships is actually supply chain collaboration, linking the supply side and the demand side, integrating business flow, logistics, information flow, and capital flow to achieve comprehensive coordination. cooperate.

Do you agree with this point? "

Everyone nodded.

"Then let's discuss another issue. The United States has been emphasizing the reshoring of the manufacturing industry for the past two years. It can be said that it has spent so much effort on the issue of reshoring the manufacturing industry. why is that?"

"The cost of labor in the United States is too high, and it is impossible to support the manufacturing backflow." Someone answered in seconds.

Cook smiled and continued to ask, "Huaxia's labor costs have been increasing year by year in recent years. Southeast Asian countries have taken away many orders from Huaxia in the past few years, but Huaxia's manufacturing industry has continued to prosper in recent years. Why is this? It's clearly not a human cost issue."

This time, no one answered the call. Some people had answers in their hearts, and some didn't, but everyone looked at Cook anyway and beckoned him to continue.

"The fundamental reason is that our past global supply chain was not a supply chain based on coordination, but a supply chain based on centralization and class stratification. When I first helped Apple build a global supply chain This is the route, to be more realistic, this is the only route we can take.

But I always know in my heart that there is a problem with this route, but when I think about it from the perspective of corporate profits, what I have to consider is not right or wrong, just like those "compliance" market manipulation people on Wall Street will not Considering whether there is a problem with this matter, what they consider is that if they create greater profits, or even for greater profits, they will try to make the width of "compliance" longer.

Therefore, under the class-solidified global supply chain rules, the United States has lost the conditions for the return of manufacturing, and the key to China's ability to continue to seize the advantages of manufacturing shortly after losing its competitive advantage in labor costs is an Internet support, decentralization, A new global supply chain ecology of mutual benefit and symbiosis has emerged and matured.

But as a person who has lived in Silicon Valley for so many years, I know how difficult it is to establish such a new supply chain ecology. It is challenging the creators of established rules.

But such a thing that is almost impossible to achieve has really come true, and it is the Dafeng Group that has done this. This is the reason why I choose the Dafeng Group. "

The whole world knows that Dafeng Group is creating a new global supply chain ecology, but what exactly it has achieved, and whether it has the ability to resist or even suppress the previous global supply chain, there has been no conclusion in the market, and Cook told everyone with his choice today, in his opinion, this matter is actually a conclusion.

Everyone was silent again, because they were still not sure. After all, Cook is already a member of the Dafeng Group, and speaking for the new owner is also a basic quality of a professional.

Cook had already guessed their reaction, and continued, "Let's go back to my first question, what do you think of the recent global supply chain chaos, this chaos is indeed related to the troubles encountered by Dafeng Group, But if it is really as Mr. Li understands, then the recent chaos should be the same for everyone, but it is not the case.

Just look at the data of the past few days. The orders of upstream companies in Neon Country have dropped sharply, but the upstream companies in Huaxia have basically had no impact.

Although Dafeng Group has shut down many overseas factories, the market supply has remained stable.

What is in chaos now is not the global supply chain, but the global supply chain in the past. "

Cook's words immediately clicked a lot of people. Recently, everyone felt that the development of things was a bit strange, but they couldn't tell what was strange. The key point here is the amazing recovery ability of Huaxia Enterprises in the supply chain. At the beginning, when Dafeng Group and Huaxia Enterprises were suppressed to the limit, the entire market was in chaos, but in just over a week, Huaxia Enterprises seemed to have solved all the problems, and it has indeed been reported that Huaxia Enterprises began to protect Supply guarantees price stability news.

Recently, many people have sent people to verify the news, but now that Cook has said this, everyone can basically be sure.

"How did Huaxia Enterprise do it?" Someone asked directly.

Cook still maintained a smile, "What everyone should consider is not how Huaxia companies did it, but why you didn't do it, because the companies in the Neon country and the Koryo country were at a relatively high level in the supply chain in the past. Classes are high-profit grabbers, so when the supply chain begins to move towards a new ecology supported by the Internet, decentralization, and mutual benefit, the transformation of everyone is relatively slow.

As for verifying my words, you only need to spend a little time understanding the supply chain situation in Southeast Asia and Africa in recent days, and you will understand that it is not only Chinese companies that are gradually recovering, but global companies. A large number of enterprises, but what these enterprises have in common is that they have or almost placed themselves in the new global supply chain ecology. "

"Wait!" Kazuo Hirai suddenly thought of something, "I talked to Meng Qian on the phone two days ago, so I know that Dafeng Group has given up some projects and orders, and if I remember correctly, it seems that the southeast Asian side just yesterday Signed several large orders."

"You need to understand these things yourself. I resigned before this incident, so I don't know more details."

Everyone knew that Cook was talking nonsense, but at the same time everyone knew that Cook wanted everyone to dig deeper, so everyone didn't continue to talk nonsense with Cook.

After the dinner was over, all the entrepreneurs who participated in the dinner immediately sent instructions to the company to investigate the details of the recent global industrial chain, because they all felt a greater sense of crisis at this gathering.