In terms of domestic sales, the cumulative sales volume of FAW Toyota in 20 19 reached 738,000 vehicles, achieving a year-on-year increase of 2%; The cumulative sales volume of GAC Toyota in 20 19 reached 682,000 vehicles, up by17.59% year-on-year; GAC Toyota's increase is very large. However, according to the financial data released by Toyota in the third fiscal quarter of fiscal year 2020, the net profit decreased by 3.3% year-on-year, and Toyota's sales in the global market also declined this fiscal quarter, with the decline in the Asian market reaching 65,438+02.5%. Perhaps in the situation of declining financial profits, Toyota announced that it would adjust the company and its top management structure.
Recently, Toyota Motor Corporation announced the abolition of the company's existing six vice presidents and unified them as executive directors. Improve the efficiency of the management structure and make the decision more direct. The reform of the management structure is mainly to promote the further improvement of the production management system and cost control. In this announcement, Akio Toyoda pointed out that reducing the organizational structure is part of the restructuring plan, which will enable the management to make decisions faster than before. In this decision-making change, it is necessary to find the right person to promote the plan.
Judging from Toyota's long-term management structure, canceling the post of vice president is the first structural adjustment since the introduction of 1982. It can be seen from such changes that Toyota is streamlining its main management to cope with the accelerated development of new technologies such as new energy layout and electrification transformation in the future. After streamlining the main decision-making levels, the efficiency of many important decisions and affairs of the group will often be greatly improved.
Toyota said in this announcement that former chief accounting officer Kenta? Jin Min will be the next CFO. Besides, Didier? Leroy and other three executive vice presidents resigned, but Didier? Leroy will continue to serve as a director of the company; This series of personnel changes will take effect on April 1, which is another change after the adjustment of the top management structure of 201Toyota.
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Now many car companies are reducing costs by laying off employees and streamlining management personnel, so they need to open up sources and cut costs in the cold winter of the market. The original intention of Toyota's adjustment seems to be not too great. Some media speculated that Akio Toyoda's move was to prepare for the next generation of successors. This adjustment can directly see the management development ability of the top decision makers, and there will be more opportunities for cross-level management exchanges.
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