Reinventing the Millennium

Alibaba does not want another heavyweight opponent in the e-commerce market, but Ma Chen and Fang Zhuo seem to be unable to pee in the same pot, so the trip to Shanghai will have little effect.

For Ma Ren, who has just raised US$82 million and currently has no shortage of money, Taobao’s C2C strategic planning is naturally focused on ensuring its own direction, and the weight of suggestions discussed internally will be reduced.

If we can simply introduce funds, that would be good.

But if this fund has tough additional requirements, then wait until you really have no money in the future.

All in all, Ma Chen believes that Taobao, which has been able to share the market with eBay, is a high-quality project and can continue to attract investment. There is no need to be so anxious to introduce funds at the expense of shaking the company's strategic direction and control.

As for Fang Zhuo, oh, there is nothing to say.

Although he has hidden his determination to do B2C, it doesn't matter if he doesn't hide it. Taobao and eBay are fighting to the death, and it is absolutely impossible to spare the energy to do B2C. The business development of both sides has been relatively parallel in a short period of time.

Only when both sides are strong enough will the intersection of battle lines begin.

After seeing Ali off, Fang Zhuo continued to deal with company affairs half of the time, and attended the social and corporate honors presentations that were unavoidable in Shanghai for the other half.

In just a few days, Hang Lung 23 has received many honorary trophies of various types.

Although Fang Zhuo didn't care about this, he found that other people in the company were quite happy.

On January 13, Su Wei, who flew to Kunshan first, then Yangcheng, then Beijing, and finally returned to Shanghai, rushed into the president's office and reported on the preliminary establishment of the procurement system of Tesco.

The original main consideration for acquiring Dazhong Electrical Appliances was to use its offline channels to accelerate the establishment of consumer trust in the Tesco brand, but now it is discovered that its existing purchasing team can also bring great complements to Tesco.

The employees transferred from Yiko and Medical are the basic and middle-level management framework of Tesco. When it comes to functional teams, there are still obvious shortcomings. Among them, a mature purchasing team plays an extremely important role.

It is said to be procurement, but in fact the design work also includes important warehouse goods management.

This involves functions such as unsalable goods, removal, repair, internal stock transfer, and manufacturer docking. It can also be regarded as a relatively unique system for B2C in e-commerce.

A team of former Amazon logistics warehousing experts hired from the United States gave very practical suggestions when building the Kunshan Demonstration Warehouse No. 1. This was a reappearance of various problems Amazon encountered during its development.

Su Wei reported to the CEO's office for a long time, and even her voice was a little hoarse before she finally summarized the general work content.

"It seems that what we got from acquiring Dazhong Electric has exceeded our expectations."

Fang Zhuo and Teacher Xiao Su communicated seriously. After they came to an end, he poured a cup of tea, smoothed her hair, and said with a smile: "I think it is quite appropriate to put Sun Qi in this position. Let him take the lead and be paired with As a deputy director of Dazhong Electrical Appliances and a deputy director of Tesco Procurement, Sun Qi can focus more on the B-side without losing control of his old business."

"Mr. Sun is very calm. He can do it. The establishment of the early system is very important, otherwise it will be a mess." Su Wei picked up the tea cup and warmed her hands, looking up at Mr. Fang who was pacing back.

The work report has basically been completed and it’s noon.

She looked at Mr. Fang's profile and guessed what he was thinking.

Fang Zhuo thought about the supply chain problem for a while, then suddenly came back to his senses and said with a smile: "What are you looking at me doing? Here, I'll pour you another cup of tea."

Su Wei tilted her head, her hair hanging down again, and demanded: "I want to drink new, newly brewed tea."

Fang Zhuo was self-satisfied and said while making the tea: "I'll ask Xiao Liu to buy some Buddha's Hand later. It's a small variety of Wuyi Rock Tea. That tea soup is good for your throat. You can drink it when you're fine."

"I just talked too much during my recent business trip, but since it was given to me by President Fangda, I hope this tea will taste sweeter." Su Wei laughed.

"This rock tea bergamot, also known as snow pear, guess whether it is sweet or not." Fang Zhuo glanced at Xiao Su.

Su Wei rolled up the half sleeve of her right hand, propped up her chin, looked into Mr. Fang's eyes, and said, "Well, I haven't drunk it yet, but I seem to feel that the tea soup is a little sweet."

Fang Zhuo laughed dumbly, stopped chatting about tea, and casually chatted about things at home.

As the Spring Festival approaches, my parents are very quiet this year. Thinking that their son will become richer and richer, they also plan to travel in style to celebrate the festival.

Because they were afraid that their son would be too busy with work, they made a special appointment in advance so that they could see exotic scenery together during the Spring Festival.

Fang Zhuo had already agreed, so he arranged work in advance and took an annual leave.

In the past few years, it was almost open all year round, but this year we have more days to play.

Fang Zhuo talked about his parents and sister, with a smile on his face, and suddenly asked: "You are always so busy, do you want to take a vacation together?"

"I think so." Su Wei said this first, and then said, "The problem is that Tesco is in full swing, and we can't leave it. Well... we'll see what happens when the time comes. How about it? Since I took over the Tesco project, I can't let it fall into my hands. "

Fang Zhuo wanted to speak, but couldn't help but smile and choked back his words. After a moment, he said: "Okay, I will bring you a gift when my family and I travel around the United States."

"You complete your vacation tasks, and I complete my e-commerce tasks. This is called complementing each other." Su Wei said with a bit of air, "Then, I receive gifts, and you receive good news about the project. This is called not affecting work. , and it won’t affect your life.”

Fang Zhuo couldn't help but want to laugh again when he saw Xiao Su looking like this.

However, before she could laugh, her cell phone suddenly rang.

He glanced and saw it was Luzhou Bingxin Qiu Ciyun calling.

"I hope it's good news." Fang Zhuo said to Su Wei while holding his cell phone.

Su Wei watched Mr. Fang answer the phone and watched his expression change from relaxed to serious, knowing that things were always the opposite of what he expected.

After a few minutes, the call ended.

"OK, the risky trial production of the ice core did not go through." Fang Zhuo rubbed his mobile phone, "I can't understand the 130nm technology."

Su Wei knew the progress of the ice core and asked: "What about the first formal risk trial production that the leaders of Anhui Province are scheduled to visit in the next year? Are you ready to do it?"

"Leadership is a trivial matter, technology is a big problem. It was pushed from December to January and then to February." Fang Zhuo frowned, "The progress is not as good as expected. This is actually acceptable. The foundation of ice core is weak, but I am always afraid Accidentally, it was not the second-generation technology that fell behind, but more, but I couldn’t do anything about the technical aspect.”

Su Wei asked: "Where is Professor Hu from HKUST?"

"I went back to California for the holidays. I've asked him before, but more specific and practical problems cannot be solved by one person." Fang Zhuo shook his head.

The president's office was quiet for a while, and the two non-technical people were thinking about the problem.

"or……"

The two people's eyes suddenly collided, and they spoke at the same time.

"SMIC?" Su Wei paused slightly and made a tentative sound.

"Brother unit." Fang Zhuo nodded and affirmed.