Chapter 80: Everyday Trivia
After three months of rectification, Scarface's work was basically straightened out, and the enthusiasm for the work of the entire inspection class was completely mobilized, and all problems were solved by working together.
Everyone wants to show that they are very capable in front of Scarface and Sasaki, and they hope to be reused.
Scarface personally learned a lot from it, such as the processing technology, management points, and quality points of various materials.
There is also reflected in the income, until the end of December, Scarface worked overtime every month. Basically, it is kept at about forty hours.
Here it is calculated according to the salary of 1.5 times overtime on weekdays and twice as much overtime on weekends.
So Scarface's salary is close to 4,000 per month, which is already very high in 2000.
Another point is the gray part, which is now recognized by Scarface and has begun to officially take the road of Scarface, there are only about 30 suppliers.
Everyone is still running in, and this kind of thing is calculated according to the monthly payment amount after the supply.
Murata's payment is settled on a monthly basis for 30 days, that is, the entire month of January will be reconciled until the beginning of February, and then the payment will be settled by the end of February.
The supplier will maintain the relationship he needs to maintain in early March, and in just three months, Scarface's gray income has reached more than 200,000 yuan, which is just the beginning.
Although Scarface has undergone drastic changes in its work, some suppliers have also begun to benefit.
However, it is also the stage of the off-season of production, and the supply amount and profit have dropped significantly.
Therefore, this is just to show your determination, and then to tacitly set a standard.
In other words, what Scarface is getting now is actually part of the order from August, and he hasn't been able to help people at that time.
But no one has such a detailed accounting, and it is also something they can't ask for to get on the line with the new leader as soon as possible.
For every big change, there are those who benefit and those who are unlucky, which is also an inevitable problem.
But the difference this time is that those unlucky suppliers are completely self-inflicted.
They are all reduced or even eliminated because of their low level of technology and quality management, so they have nothing to say.
And Scarface also promised that as long as they can meet Murata's requirements in all aspects, they will be prioritized in the future.
After all, the more resources a supplier has, the more fierce the competition, and the more it can create a healthy competitive environment.
Among them, there are two special suppliers worth talking about separately, and from the examples of these two suppliers, it can be basically seen that Scarface has a different style of doing things from the previous Minister Lai.
One is Murata's external supplier, which is also a furniture company, called Gangbin Furniture Co., Ltd. The other is to supply Murata with stamping parts such as screws and hinges, called Hama Desheng Metal Products Co., Ltd.
As mentioned earlier, Murata has a total of six external suppliers, and the annual procurement volume is 120 million.
One of them is Japanese-owned, but in fact, a Japanese man has run a factory in Bencheng, and his products are sold in average sales, so he took some work from Murata to supplement the problem of unsatisfactory load.
The supply volume is basically maintained at 10%, that is, 12 million a year, mainly because the maximum order volume he can receive is so large, if his equipment and processing capacity is large, all orders are given to him.
This kind of supplier takes the upper route, that is, they have a good relationship with Nagano, Sasaki, and a few Japanese people in other departments, and often eat and have fun together, and so on.
This is also easy to understand, people are also their own people, of course, they must be taken care of first.
This kind of supplier is the most unpopular supplier for the inspection section, and they have to be careful in their work.
If the inspector in charge of the supplier for a long time is equivalent to a prisoner who has been exiled. In fact, the same is true at Murata, where an inspector is transferred to that company, and everyone says that he was exiled.
Three of the remaining five are Hong Kong-owned and two are privately owned by China.
From the quality, price, delivery time (internally called QCD) three most important indicators to assess, the three Hong Kong-funded belong to the best, including the Bingang Furniture Co., Ltd. to say.
Wei Tiangang, the owner of Bingang Company, used to be a native of Bincheng, and later settled in Hong Kong, and he did his own furniture business in Hong Kong, and everyone called him Lao Wei.
At the end of the 80s, this production plant was invested in Bincheng, and the most glorious time was ten years ago, with a turnover of tens of millions a year, and 10 million in 1990 was a big number.
When Murata built a factory here, it was long gone, and the output value was several million a year.
However, the equipment he invested in and bought during his glory was very advanced, mainly imported from Japan and Germany, and it is also the most advanced production equipment in the industry at present.
When he first started working with Murata, his supply volume could reach about 50% at most, more than 40 to 50 million a year.
But processing for others is completely different from the profit of making products yourself, and even so, the boss also makes a lot of money on Murata.
But this boss doesn't like to do PR very much, or he doesn't bother to do it. In fact, some people look down on mainlanders, and the Japanese can't reach them, so they simply don't do anything.
He thinks that his equipment and management are no worse than Murata's, and you are begging me to do work for you.
The boss is in Hong Kong all the year round, and the factory is managed by his relatives, who have no financial power.
Therefore, the Chinese staff of various departments at Murata ignored them, and the relationship with the middle and high-level of the Japanese side was not very good, and gradually went downhill.
Last year, the amount of foreign work was less than 10 million, and this year it is even less, only more than 5 million.
At this time, the boss in Hong Kong realized that he might be eliminated by Murata soon, and once he lost Murata's order, his factory would have to close.
So I came back from Hong Kong, and I was here almost all this year, first looking for Nagano and the Japanese in the purchasing department, then Sasaki, and then Minister Lai, but basically to no avail.
Because in the past two years, they have not had much advantage in the overall evaluation. Although it is still the best quality, even the Japanese-funded ones are ashamed of themselves, but several other companies have basically approached them after two years of running-in.
His NPL rate is 3%, the NPL rate of the Japanese and the other two Hong Kong companies is 5%, and the local Ben Cheng is 8%.
In terms of price, he is on par with the Japanese, which is higher than the other four, and the delivery is the same.
When working with a company like Murata, they would rather delay the production of their own products than delay Murata's orders.
When Scarface first started taking over the job, he wanted to find Scarface, but Scarface didn't understand the situation at the time and didn't contact him.
At the beginning of October, Scarface begins to accept his invitations and learns a lot from him about the inside scoop of the exterior work.
In fact, the defect rate of the two private companies is almost 15%, and since all the materials are provided by Murata, such a high defect rate must be reflected in the number of industrial waste.
Not only did Murata have to make up for the wasted amount, but there were also some punitive fines.
Since Murata set a fine target of 10%, and the excess amount is compensated at three times the original price, their defective rate is maintained below this figure.
But one thing that could not be avoided was that Murata provided them with materials for a hundred sets of products, and he only produced eighty-five sets of finished products.
They will compensate for the bad part according to the original price, which is not said, but the part that is hidden by them must also be made up.
The two companies bought their own raw materials from the market and finally delivered them to Murata as finished products.
This is absolutely not allowed in Japanese-funded companies, and this is blatantly making fakes.
However, these two enterprises are the descendants of Minister Lai, and they were introduced by Minister Lai two years ago.
The inspectors in charge of these two companies were also personally trained by Minister Lai, and of course they were also in collusion with these two companies.
After Scarface learned about this situation, the first to start implementing reforms was to do it from the outside, and the problem was immediately discovered by the new inspectors.
However, the two inspectors were personally selected by Scarface, who had been in the most difficult penal colonies, and they did not dare to accept the benefits of these two for the time being, and fed back the problem to Scarface.
The two families started to work on Scarface again, in fact, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the two families blocked him downstairs in Scarface.
Because Scarface's own plan, the first to implement it is to start from the outside, so Scarface refuses to do it from the outside, even if it is blocked downstairs, he also refuses.
Now that the problem has been exposed, what Scarface wants is such an effect, he told everyone that he didn't understand anything when he first came, and everything could only be made by the leader.
So without hesitation, he fed back the problem to Sasaki, and once this kind of fraud is known to the Japanese, it will be a big deal.
Not only did he stop production and terminate cooperation, but he was also facing a recall of all previous products, which Scarface did not expect.
In the end, the materials bought by these two companies were completely purchased from Murata's suppliers.
Based on the investigation conclusions of the expert group sent by the Japanese head office, as well as the final decision of the senior management of the Japanese headquarters, the recall will not be processed if it has already entered the market.
However, the two companies must compensate in full for all damages, including the human and material resources expended by Japan in investigating the matter.
A total of 30 million yuan each was given, and detailed details and explanations were also attached to the information, which can be said to be reasonable and well-founded.
But this kind of compensation was definitely not acceptable to the Chinese private enterprises at that time, and in the end, the two sides had to go to court, and after Scarface returned from Japan, the follow-up of the matter was not over.
In fact, Scarface's original intention at that time was just to knock the mountain and shock the tiger, and he didn't even think about directly doing these two.
He just wants the inspector to listen to him and the supplier to do what he asks.
According to his assumption, take out a part of the share of these two companies to the manufacturers he thinks are suitable, and the goal will be achieved.
But the final result was like this, which was really unexpected, and Scarface really understood how much Japanese companies attach importance to product quality.
All but four of the inspectors involved in this case were dismissed for negligence.
Others, such as Minister Lai and the section chief of technology and procurement, have not been affected much, mainly because there is no evidence to point to them, and the big deal is that there are loopholes in management.
These four inspectors also helped to conceal it because they knew that the other party was cheating, and if they just took gray income, they might not be okay.
Because, first, there is no real evidence for this kind of thing, and the Japanese are very particular about evidence.
Second, and most importantly, when this happens, the first thing they think about is that there is a problem with their own management, not that these people have a problem.
If anyone is given the opportunity, this will happen. This also reflects the characteristics of Japanese companies in another aspect, that is, they never test human nature with profits.
Human nature is the most untestable, and those who do not make mistakes are not worthy of their noble personality, but that the risks and benefits are not equal, and they are not worthy of his mistakes. If there is enough temptation, there is no one in the world who does not make mistakes.
So in their view, no matter who makes a big mistake, the main person responsible is the manager at the next level.
If he manages it well, the employee will not make mistakes. Unless it's the kind of deliberate damage to public property, and there is a particularly obvious deliberate malfeasance like this one.
Otherwise, they will not, or rarely, impose particularly severe penalties on individuals, and most of them will be transferred to other positions.
Since these two companies have ceased cooperation permanently, the six have become four.
Since the production in November was still very large, Scarface directly suggested that Sasaki transfer the production of the two later companies to the Hamato company.
Of course, he is also responsible for negotiating the price with Bingang, and this important matter must also be led by the procurement department, which is equivalent to giving the procurement department a big gift.
All things, Scarface is explained with detailed information, never robs others of credit, and strictly abides by his job responsibilities.
Bingang picked up such a big bargain at once, of course, thanks to Scarface.
Lao Wei spent nearly 500,000 yuan on Murata's gang this year, but it had no effect at all.
When he first met Scarface, he prepared 10,000 yuan as a meeting gift, but Scarface refused.
Scarface wasn't sure he could help him at the time, so he didn't give him a penny in the early stage.
This is a different place from all other people's work, I don't give you any promises, you do what you should do according to what I say, and then I will do my best to help you, if you can't help me, you don't want a penny, you can help it.
Even General Manager Nagano and Sasaki, how many times they ate and drank Lao Wei for nothing, they took it for granted. Scarface's style of doing things first and then talking about benefits can not make suppliers like it?
This matter is completely confirmed, at the beginning of November, Lao Wei directly gave Scarface 100,000 yuan as a thank you, and promised to give Scarface two points of the transaction amount every month.
And promised that even if Scarface kicked him out of Murata because of a problem with his product, he would have no complaints and decided that Scarface had forgotten about it.
Lao Wei's factory has always been managed by his nephew and his family, but in the first two years, his nephew had a night of entertainment, drove drunk, and died in a car accident, leaving the children who had just entered elementary school and his wife to depend on each other.
Therefore, drinking and not driving, driving and not drinking, this is not only a responsibility to the society, but also a responsibility to the family.
His nephew's daughter-in-law's name is Diao Xiuqin, who is Chinese New Year's Eve two years old today, and his nephew was a college classmate and now manages the factory in full charge.
I heard that she looks very beautiful, but she hasn't seen Scarface, and when the business stabilizes in the future, she will often deal with this Sister Diao, so I will explain it first.