Chapter 651 - : First Vendor Company (2) – Part 2
After getting off the phone with Jae-Sik Moon, Gun-Ho drank his tea. It was already cold, but he didn’t mind it.
‘Jae-Sik Moon’s wife seemingly acclimated herself well to the new environment already. Once she gives birth to their child next month, Jae-Sik Moon will become the father of a child. They will easily find help in China since it would be easy and not expensive to have a housekeeper. What about Young-Eun and myself? Young-Eun’s mother is not here. Should I ask my mom to stay with us for a while to take care of our baby? Young-Eun might not like it… Maybe she wouldn’t feel comfortable living with my mother…
Jong-Suk Park’s child must have grown up a lot by now. His baby is 100 days old, I guess. Oh, wait. Maybe she is six months old.’
Gun-Ho made a call to Jong-Suk Park.
“Yeah, bro!”
“Where are you right now? I hear all sorts of noise from your side.”
“People from H Group are here to evaluate our factory under their five-star quality certification program. They are looking into our production process management and system.”
“Oh, really? I will call you later then.”
“Yeah, I will give you a call once this is done. If it’s about anything urgent, I can still talk with you.”
“Nah, it’s okay. There is nothing urgent. I will talk to you later.”
‘H Group sent people to evaluate our GH Mobile’s factory…’
He grinned since this was a chance to become H Group’s first vendor company.
As a matter of fact, President Song made it possible for GH Mobile to become a candidate for one of the first vendor companies of H Group. President Song used to work for S Group before joining GH Mobile, and S Group was H Group’s first vendor company. Therefore, he had close connections with H Group’s executive officers, especially in the purchasing department. Also, he knew how to tactfully respond to H Group’s quality test conducted on their potential vendor companies. However, with all those President Song’s knowledge and useful connections, GH Mobile just didn’t have a chance to be considered as a candidate to be their first vendor company. There had to be a reason why H Group would pick a specific company for it. For example, a company should either manufacture a product that H Group needed and that couldn’t be manufactured by other companies, or it had to have a connection with H Group’s owner.
President Song came with a strategy specifically aimed at being H Group’s first vendor company. At first, he reached out to the global company— Chrysler— and started supplying products for them, thinking that it would demonstrate to H Group that GH Mobile was producing quality products good enough to be picked by Chrysler. However, H Group’s purchasing department didn’t show any response to it, well at least in the beginning. Even though President Song made an effort to convince them that GH Mobile was well equipped with excellent engineers and facilities, it wasn’t just good enough.
However, they started paying attention to GH Mobile when A Electronics increased their product order from GH Mobile several times. A Electronics was notorious for being picky in selecting their suppliers after all.
GH Mobile grabbed the opportunity when one of H Group’s current first vendor companies produced some defective parts for H Group. In searching for another vendor company that would replace the one with defective products, H Group wanted to verify GH Mobile’s facility and production capability.
“I was going to call you right after lunch, but I was really busy because of President Song who nagged at me and other executive officers without break.”
“What was he nagging about?”
“For the thing that H Group people pointed out today, he summoned me, the quality control team lead, and the management people from the research center. And he nagged us there for hours, I think. I almost headbutt him.”
“Haha. I see. President Song spoke highly of you though.”
“I know he doesn’t talk badly about any of us behind our back. That’s why I don’t actually hit him. But he is definitely not someone who I want to be close with.”
“I guess that he knows how to push your button. Haha.”
“Don’t laugh, brother. I’m serious here.”
“I feel relieved knowing that those H Group inspectors left with satisfaction.”
“Yeah, I feel good too.”
“Hey, your daughter grew up a lot, right? I guess she is 100 days old?”
“Bro, she is 7 months old already.”
“Is that right?”
“She is so cute. Whenever I go home after work, I can’t stop smiling because of her.”
“Really? She can’t speak yet, can she?”
“No, not yet. She babbles a lot though for a long while. She laughs a lot whenever I wave some toys in front of her.”
“Oh, really? She does sound very cute.”
“I shake rattle toys most of the time because she responds to it very quickly. It’s fun.”
“Your parents and parents-in-law must feel joyful playing with her too.”
“Yeah. They compete with each other to get a chance to play with her.”
“I can imagine how your family would spend time happily with your daughter.”
“Thanks, bro.”