Our Customer once floated a RFP (Request for Proposal) and we were required to submit a proposal to their requirement before the weekend.
Our team started to work in full force to prepare a Solution, do the costing and get our best to win this deal. One week's time was too less for that mammoth requirement but somehow we managed to get a solution and final proposal at the eleventh hour.
Our Sales Manager took a speedy run to the Customer's Office to submit the Proposal on Friday at last minute and upon submission heaved a sigh of relief.
We had a mini team dinner in appreciation of our high spirited team efforts. Next day (Saturday) our Sales Manager was reviewing the proposal and he was surprised to discover of a big typo in there where he had forgotten to replace INR with '$'(USD) sign. He was now tensed, the damage was done and nothing could be done until monday.
The next monday, Customer's SCM (Supply Chain Manager) called our Sales Manager to acknowledge that the price that we had quoted was 10 times higher than their expectation.
Our Sales Manager took a fall and didn't know whether to laugh or cry, simmering down he answered "Please return the proposal, if allowed we will resubmit a new one with same values in US Dollars as i had forgotten to replace INR with USD sign in our proposal template".
Listening to this, the SCM fainted.
LOL
njoii.
~banji
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