At 5:30 in the morning, the Magic City was still shrouded in light gray morning fog. Only a few scattered lights were on in the old-fashioned residential buildings outside the window, like stars crushed in the fog. She reached out to press down her phone, and her fingertips swiped across the work reminders that popped up on the screen - "9:00 Autumn new product research review meeting, lead merchant hyper-terminal data report; 14:00 docking with Hengtong Food sample re-inspection; 17:30 finishing Q3 supplier evaluation form", each item was followed by a red "urgent" mark.
As a procurement clerk in the market research department of the fast-moving consumer goods company "Uweike", Ge Wei's job has always been a "two-front battle": he must not only immerse himself in data like a market researcher, and find out the survival space of new products from the sales flow of supermarkets and consumer questionnaires; but also play games with suppliers like a procurement specialist, pushing sample quality, delivery cycle, and quotation to meet the company's "red line of cost performance." Others always say that her position is "neither fish nor fowl," but Ge Wei knows that the core of this job is "connection" - turning market demand into production standards that suppliers can implement, and then accurately pushing the produced products to consumers who are willing to pay.
