Foxconn's chassis, CPU radiator and other products, I believe everyone is familiar with. Foxconn is a comprehensive enterprise group, a high-tech enterprise invested in Chinese mainland, and also produces 3C products, including: precision electrical connectors, precision cables and components, computer cases and quasi-systems, computer system components, wireless communication key components and components, optical communication components and consumer electronics products. At present, Foxconn Enterprise Group has more than 30 subsidiaries in South China, East China, North China, Taiwan Province Province, America and Europe in China. It is the world's largest manufacturer of computer connectors and computer quasi-systems, and has been selected as one of the top> global information companies 100 list.
Foxconn can have such a strong international industrial scale, which is inseparable from the results brought by the three strategies they have been pursuing in their development.
One-stop design: follow customer needs
Foxconn can win the favor of many international customers. The first advantage is that it can fully cooperate with the establishment of R&D design, engineering test and rapid sample preparation mechanism near important strategic customers, develop new products synchronously with customers, and make products mass-produced as soon as possible. This is the so-called "one place design". For example, as long as Intel introduces a new generation of CPU, Foxconn can cooperate with it immediately. * * * In addition to developing a java java connector architecture that matches the new generation of CPU, Intel will also designate the preferred motherboard partner for testing.
At the same time, Foxconn is further establishing the global 24-hour remote interactive design capability. For example, through the global information network, engineering units on the west coast of the United States can notify design engineers in Taiwan Province province or mainland China after work, continue to complete the design by way of relay race, and even make sample entities.
Set up the R&D design and quick proofing ability near the customer's R&D headquarters to facilitate the change of new product design, win the first-time certification of Foxconn's newly developed products for customers, and shorten the development time of new products. At the same time, Foxconn's customer headquarters can communicate with customers in the shortest distance, thus providing fast and effective services.
Manufacturing in Three Places: Realizing Mass Production
"Made in Three Places" is a magic weapon for Foxconn to win customers' favor. After the new product is approved, Foxconn can arrange the purchasing, manufacturing, engineering, quality control and other capabilities needed for production in the three major market manufacturing bases in Asia, North America and Europe in the shortest time, and can rapidly expand production capacity according to the growing market demand of customers to meet the rapid growth of customer demand. "It's like a performance test of a fighter. It tests whether you can climb up at several times the speed of sound with a vertical elevation angle close to 90 degrees. Customers choose to cooperate with Foxconn, which is a key consideration. " CEO Guo Taiming is quite proud of Foxconn's globalization ability.
As early as 200 1, Foxconn's parent company has completed the mass production establishment in Asia, North America and Europe, including Shenzhen and Kunshan in mainland China, Los Angeles and Houston in the United States, and Scotland, Ireland and Czech Republic in Europe. Foxconn started with molds, and each manufacturing base has established rapid mold design, manufacturing and maintenance capabilities. For example, the newly emerging Foxconn Shenzhen Mold Factory is the largest mold factory in Chinese mainland, with nearly 3,000 mold technicians, and all mold manufacturing processes can be completed under one roof. The manufacturing industry in Asia, Europe and America is like a relay race. The first stick is running, the second stick is preheating, and the third stick is also preparing, which can prepare for mass production for customers in the shortest time. For example, Apple Computer's new product iMAC II was just presented to the world by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, at the new york Exhibition. The next day, hundreds of thousands of orders came like snowflakes. How can Apple computer meet these orders quickly? It finally placed an order with Foxconn, because only Foxconn's global mass production capacity can meet such a large-scale demand in a short time.
Global delivery: efficient logistics with zero inventory
Enterprise activities from research and development, marketing, manufacturing, until timely delivery to customers, to recover funds, in order to be considered a full stop. Boss Guo Taiming emphasized that "you earn money, and the customer finally gives you money!" Goods placed in one's own factory or half-way delivery warehouse can only be regarded as a burden, not as a benefit. "Transaction is to deliver the goods to the place designated by the customer with" the right product, timely, appropriate quality and appropriate quantity ". Therefore, the global logistics tracking system is always the first project completed by Foxconn ERP system.
Guo Taiming's idea is that goods, whether materials, parts, semi-finished products or finished products, should be controlled by the warehouse as long as the stay time exceeds 15 minutes, and the real-time inventory information of these goods should be found from the computer. This is also Guo Taiming's inspection standard for warehouse inventory information, which is both simple and challenging. The global ERP system jointly developed by Hon Hai and Compaq with an investment of US$ 30 million not only requires it to reflect real-time production management information, but also requires it to exert control effect. For example, if a European buyer wants to buy a part, but finds that there is still a sluggish inventory of this part in a warehouse in Asia, then the European buyer should be "forced" by the system not to place an order, but should transfer the parts in the Asian warehouse to Europe for use. Guo Taiming believes that many large high-tech companies will go bankrupt, often not because they can't develop new products, but because they can't flow smoothly and are dragged down by inventory.
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The concept of "be world-class if you want to do it" has prompted Foxconn to form an alliance with world-class system manufacturers, such as Apple, Compaq, Dell, Dell and IBM. Cisco, Nokia, Nokia and Sony are all important strategic customers of Foxconn. In the business dealings with these multinational companies, Foxconn has gradually completed the process of integrating with international standards and international management models by virtue of three forward-looking strategies, and finally made itself among the ranks of international first-class brands.