"Okay, this is the price list of all the parts we can provide. Please take a look, Mr. Galvin!" After waiting awkwardly for more than 20 minutes, the secretary handed a list of more than 10 A4 pages to Boss Jia. Boss Jia passed it directly to Kristoff.
"A total of 486 parts!" Kristoff's eyes widened. There were only 492 parts on his list, but the Daqian was able to provide 486 of them, which was equivalent to 99% of the parts on the list. For an entire mobile phone, this was equivalent to about 80%.
Was the Daqian's production technology so advanced?
However, this was not the most important thing. Kristoff began to look at the price of the parts, and his body turned cold. Before coming to the Daqian, Kristoff had already memorized the price of most of the parts. Now that he looked at it again, it was like the difference between heaven and earth.
For example, the lithium battery of the mobile phone. Previously, Motorola had purchased Sony's lithium battery, which cost 62 USD per battery. However, the price given by the Daqian was only 48.8 USD, which was about 13 USD cheaper.
Moreover, these were the more expensive parts. The most ridiculous parts were about 12 times cheaper than the ones Motorola had purchased themselves. Kristoff was sweating profusely as he looked at them. Then, he felt his body heating up.
If Motorola could purchase parts from the Daqian at this price, then the production cost of a Motorola STARTAC could be directly reduced from 2,400 USD to about 1,600 USD, which was a saving of 800 USD.
"By the way, the Daqian can also provide overall OEM services. The labor cost of each mobile phone will only be an additional 100 USD!" Boss Jia added. Kristoff could not help but lick his lips.
For Motorola, the labor cost of each mobile phone was about 300 USD. If they could save another 200 USD, then they could save 1,000 USD. If the old guys on the board of directors knew about this, they would probably kneel in front of Boss Jia and beg the Daqian to produce for them!
"Does Nokia do the same?" Kristof suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but ask.
"I can't tell you that. You'll have to figure it out yourself!" Boss Jia chuckled. However, the meaning behind his words was quite clear.
Although the pride in Christoff's heart made him want to reject Jia Yapeng, the price was too tempting. If the old guys in the company knew that he dared to reject the offer, the first thing they would do would be to kick him out of the company.
Moreover, Kristoff couldn't reject it. After all, the Galvin family owned 30% of Motorola's shares. That meant that 30% of Motorola's profits and dividends belonged to the Galvin family. This was Kristoff's own money. No capitalist would reject profits.
Moreover, didn't Kristoff come to Hua Xia to purchase these parts?
Boss Jia, who had been with Jia Yapeng, wandered around until about 12 am. Kristoff and Boss Jia finally reached an agreement on all the procurement issues and signed a contract of intent. Then, when the legal personnel of both parties arrived at Hua Xia, the formal contract could be signed.
After a busy night, Kristoff declined Boss Jia's invitation to stay at home and returned to his hotel. As a result, he found that his temporary secretary was still waiting for him in the room.
"Boss, this is the result of today's work. I visited 22 companies and got more than 160 kinds of parts. They all said that as long as we don't have any objections to the price, we can sign the purchase agreement immediately!" The temporary secretary said excitedly.
"Is that so …" Kristoff took a look at the list and found that the price was the same as the list given to him by the Daqian.
"None of them rejected you?" Kristoff couldn't help but ask.
"No!" The temporary secretary shook his head, then asked puzzledly, "We're here to purchase. Why would they reject me?"
"Did you talk about all these during the day?" Kristoff asked again.
"Yes, I went to visit these companies at 8: 00 in the morning!"
"Ah, it seems that I'm narrow-minded!" Kristoff sighed. He arrived at the Jia family at nine o 'clock, but his secretary received the promises of various companies at 8: 00. It seemed that Jia Yapeng really had no intention of not selling the parts to him. Even if he didn't come to clean the garden, he could still buy these parts. This made Kristoff suddenly feel that he had been a villain for nothing.
"Sir, you should rest early. We have to visit more companies tomorrow!" The secretary said.
"No need!" Kristoff waved his hand and said, "I've already discussed everything with Jia Yapeng. There's no need to visit these companies. You should go and rest!"
"Yes!" The temporary secretary's face turned pale. He and Kristoff signed the contract according to the daily salary. As the salary was as high as 100 dollars a day, the temporary secretary cherished this job very much. At the same time, he was very diligent.
Unfortunately, it seemed that this job would only last for one or two days. Since everything was discussed with Kristoff, there was nothing for him to do. He could go home now.
Just when the temporary secretary was feeling desperate, Kristoff suddenly added, "If you don't mind, you can come with me to the United States. I'll arrange an internship for you in Motorola!"
To be honest, Kristoff really admired this secretary.
— — —
On November 9th, Motorola's legal team arrived in Yuzhang. Since Kristoff had already discussed everything in advance, the procurement agreement between the two parties was signed very quickly. In the end, a procurement contract with a total value of one billion dollars was reached.
However, Motorola still had some reservations. They did not choose to directly let the Daqian help them assemble. Instead, they still chose to ship the parts back to the United States and assemble them. This was Kristoff's last pride.
Unfortunately, Motorola had several large-scale workers' strikes later. Kristoff was so angry that he kicked all the striking workers out and then handed over the assembly to the Daqian.
In this way, like Nokia, Motorola's parts were basically produced by the Daqian.
This made Boss Jia feel as if he had returned to 20 years later. Although Apple, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Honglu Square competed fiercely in the global market, in the end, most of the parts were produced in a workshop of Foxconn. Boss Jia realized this beautiful scene 20 years in advance.
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