Hanwha Ocean将向143家供应商开放TOP创新团队，称内部已降本逾5000亿韩元

Hanwha Ocean has opened its top in-house management innovation team to external suppliers, driving suppliers' management innovation such as boosting productivity and cutting costs, drawing attention from the shipbuilding industry.
According to the industry on the 22nd, Hanwha Ocean will begin operating its third round of "Supplier TOP (Total Operations Performance)," involving five shipbuilding equipment companies, starting next month. The TOP program is an innovation initiative covering operational efficiency, process advancement and quality improvement that has been pursued since 2023, when Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering made a fresh start as Hanwha Ocean under Hanwha's wing.
Hanwha Ocean (042660) innovated 2,043 tasks in-house through TOP, cutting more than 500 billion won in costs. The company decided to deploy the TOP team sequentially from the second half of last year to provide management consulting to all 143 of its suppliers.
There was some opposition to expanding TOP, which contains trade secrets, outside the company. But Hanwha Group Chairman Seung-youn Kim made the decision, citing "loyalty to suppliers" and stressing that "we must go far together."
Hanwha Ocean's elite TOP team accepts supplier applications every half-year, uniting as one team from deriving improvement tasks to implementation, presenting suppliers' innovation visions and strategies.
As the results became known in Busan, Ulsan and South Gyeongsang Province, Hanwha Ocean's production bases, 11 suppliers applied within a year. The company plans to provide consulting to all 143 external suppliers over the medium to long term, driving competitiveness improvement across the domestic shipbuilding industry.
"Going Far Together" is the win-win management keyword presented by Chairman Kim for the Hanwha Group. It embodies a management philosophy that only companies loved by the public and contributing to the abundant lives of future generations can achieve sustainable growth.
Earlier, Hanwha Ocean unveiled an unprecedented win-win plan late last year, contributing 89 billion won to apply an identical performance bonus rate of 400% to both prime contractor and subcontractor workers. President Lee Jae-myung welcomed this as an exemplary case for improving the wage dual structure between large and small businesses.