Chapter 608 Overdraft and repayment


Chapter 608 Overdraft, and Repayment

As the saying goes.

Over and over again, not over and over again.

If a company has problems, it can be regarded as an exception.

Two families can also be interpreted as a small probability event that happens by chance.

However, now so many Japanese companies have exploded one after another in just one month.

And they are all related to quality issues.

That’s worth talking about.

It can’t be just a massive number of cases, right?

Therefore, in the face of the undoubted facts, Guarino finally began to realize that something was wrong with the situation.

"Director, just when the news is being released, some good media are already preparing to make a program on this matter."

After the main content of the news was played, Simone took two steps forward and turned on the TV The screen switched to the segment just recorded.

That was the preview content of a car show.

“They said they would purchase several batches of wheel bearings marked with the NTN brand from the after-sales service of different car brands and send them directly for inspection to see if the bearing materials have the characteristics mentioned by the two Chinese companies. ”

“Well...”

Guarino nodded lightly:

“You can pay attention to this program, and remember to record it when the time comes.”

“Okay.”

Simona nodded. .

After confirming that there was nothing else to do, he left the conference room.

"Huh..."

Guarino took a long breath and sat down on a chair without even returning to his office.

Although from a legal point of view, the NTN and Xingcheng Special Steel matter has just begun, and the claims of the two Chinese companies must be true without substantiating them.

But for a senior practitioner like him, he will naturally have his own judgment outside of the law.

There is no need to even analyze the evidence. Judging from the fact that during the interview, the NTN Group looked at the left and right and did not dare to respond directly to the questions...

Nine times out of ten it's true.

"It's in vain that I just wanted to find another Japanese company to replace the NSK Group..."

When I think about it, I almost regarded the NTN Group, the company where the scandal was exposed, as the next main supplier. Shang, Guarino was frightened for a while.

If he had made the decision two days earlier, or if this matter had been disclosed later.

The Fiat Group directly became a pure clown.

Deputy Robert Gianni, who had been silent just now, was a little confused by the sudden news. He hesitated and asked:

"Well... Director, let's change to a new supplier. Things..."

"Stop it for now and prepare to submit a report to the board of directors to explain the recent situation clearly. Remember to focus on the Japanese problem and pick out the two of us."

Guarino leaned his whole body on the back of the chair, and his whole person looked more vicissitudes than before:

"In addition, we can already send people to do informal negotiations with the Luoyi Bearing Group in China. Once contacted, as long as the board of directors nods, we will start formal negotiations.”

Although it was Gianni who first proposed to include Chinese companies in the supplier list, such a drastic and decisive decision was obviously beyond his expectation:

“Uh... maybe it’s a little too hasty, After all, the result is still..."

My boss waved his hand and interrupted me mid-sentence:

"There is no need to wait for the result."

"I finally understand why. Jinling Fiat will say that using bearings produced in China to replace Japanese models is highly compatible.”

"They are all products from the same factory and the same assembly line. If you replace yourself, the degree of matching is not high..."

At this point, he didn't even stop himself and laughed. Voice.

“By the way, there is one more thing.”

After calming down a little, Guarino emphasized:

“From now on, all suppliers will be Regardless of whether they are from Europe, North America or China, even if they make some concessions on other conditions, they must make it clear in the contract that we will conduct random inspections on every batch of goods!”

He was kind of scared.

The higher the loss cost, the higher it will be.

That is a matter for the marketing department.

Their supply chain department really can't afford such trouble.

“Speaking of Director, will Japanese companies need to be subject to more intensive special inspections in the future?”

Giani took out a notebook from his pocket and asked while writing on it.

But there was no response for a long time. He subconsciously raised his head and found Guarino across the conference table looking at him with compassion.

The eyes that care for the mentally retarded.jpg

After a moment of silence, the latter finally spoke again, with a decisive tone:

"From now on, as long as I am still in charge of procurement and supply chain, I will never deal with any Japanese supplier companies!"

"As for those who have signed contracts now..."

Guarino rubbed his chin in thought.

Although he has blacklisted all Japanese companies in his mind, from a legal perspective, as long as the other party has no real fault, it certainly cannot breach the contract casually.

But the current situation obviously requires him, the supply chain director, to conduct risk control in advance.

Soon, he came up with a way to get the best of both worlds:

"Giani, please contact the quality inspection department and ask them to focus on checking the Japanese suppliers who currently have business relations with us and where their products are. There is a problem.”

“Especially those related to vehicle safety, such as Takata’s airbags, must be strictly investigated.”

“In addition, I remember that the French PSA Group also uses them on many models. If you have Takata airbags, you can also contact them to see if you can jointly put pressure on them and change the supplier.”

What he said was very clear.

It is for the quality inspection department to check "where is the problem" rather than "is there a problem".

In other words, you have to find some differences for me.

It would be best to terminate the contract directly and get some compensation if you take a step back.

"Okay, I'll do it right away."

Giani looked at the densely packed items in the notebook and breathed a sigh of relief.

In the next period of time, I am afraid it will be difficult to have a stable life...

...

Compared to Fiat, who was just afraid, it was the Germans who really broke through the defense.

They originally wanted to have fun watching their Italian and French counterparts, but ended up eating the melon directly at their own home.

You must know that the proportion of NTN bearings used in Volkswagen Group models is much larger than that of NSK bearings in Fiat Group.

China, Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.

Lan Xinzhi hurried into Ding Gaoheng's office holding a document.

Chang Haonan was also inside at this time.

"Mr. Chang, the German Volkswagen Group asked us through the joint venture in China whether we can make public the evidence related to NTN and Chunakajima's fraud in the origin of their products, and... they also want to know , except for the place of origin, does NTN have any fraud in product performance?"

Hearing this, the other two people in the office smiled almost at the same time.

"To disclose the evidence, we still need to contact the courts in Europe. However, considering that we are suing in Germany, it should not be a big problem and we can agree."

Chang Haonan replied after thinking for a while. :

“As for whether product performance fraud exists, you can hold them off for a while and say that we are also sorting out evidence in this regard and cannot provide it for the time being. We will wait until several of our Chinese brands have established themselves in Europe. It’s not too late to mention this matter again after we get the position.”

Ding Gaoheng took the letterhead printed on Chuncheng Public’s letterhead, took advantage of Chang Haonan’s reply, read it from beginning to end, and nodded with satisfaction. :

“It seems that the effect of Xiao Chang’s action this time is immediate!”

As he spoke, he flicked the document in his hand:

"The Germans can't sit still anymore..."

Lan Xinzhi, who just recorded Chang Haonan's opinions, He raised his head again:

“Not only the Germans, but almost the entire Europe are now investigating Japanese companies in the supply chain, and have uncovered a lot of things that we don’t even know.”
< br>"For example, Takata Group's airbags were found to produce sharp fragments during the explosion process, directly threatening passenger safety. Flame-retardant materials produced by Toray Group falsified the flame retardant coefficient test and their performance was not up to standard. Flame-retardant materials produced by Hitachi Chemical Group The metal material has unqualified mechanical properties..."

"There are still some things that we have not collected and haven't had time to sort out. In short, the two major European automobile and aviation industries have basically blacklisted numerous Japanese companies."

Hearing this long list of contents, even Ding Gaoheng sighed:

“It’s really unexpected... This image of Made in Japan didn’t last even a month...”

Of course Chang Haonan was mentally prepared for this.

Especially things like the air bag door, which were very big incidents in my previous life.

"When you come out to fool around, you always have to pay back..."

(End of this chapter)

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