Resource Tycoon Reborn

Chapter 129 This is actually a win-win result

Tom and his party had already left, but Fang Mingyuan and his party did not leave with them. Instead, they sent them away and returned to Lishan Hall.

The conditions proposed by the Wal-Mart Group were so generous that Sun Zhaolun and Lin Lian were in disbelief. The three of them repeatedly looked at the minutes of the meeting recorded by Lin Lian and pondered over these conditions of the Wal-Mart Group.

What is the purpose of .

"Uncle Sun, Sister Lian, I don't deny that these conditions of Wal-Mart Group are very sincere, but from a practical point of view, I don't think they suffer at all!"

"Master Fang, how do you say this?" Sun Zhaolun asked immediately.

"First, although these conditions of Wal-Mart Group seem to be very favorable, if we think that we can learn the business philosophy of Wal-Mart Group and put it into practice, it is purely a daydream. Uncle Sun,

Sister Lian, you must also know something about Wal-Mart Group. In your opinion, what is the key to its success today?" Fang Mingyuan asked.

"What's the key?" Sun Zhaolun pondered for a moment and said with some uncertainty, "It's that Wal-Mart Supermarket has a complete range of products with high quality and low prices. It's that their service is considerate and attentive, which has been truly recognized by customers."

"I think..." Lin Lian said hesitantly, "What is more important is its ability to control the cost of goods."

Fang Mingyuan clapped his hands and said: "Yes, Uncle Sun, although what you said is very important, if it were lacking, Wal-Mart Group would not be able to develop to what it is today, but it is not the most critical point.

Because of these, other companies can also imitate and do it. But why is Wal-Mart Group the only one? The key lies in the logistics and distribution system established by Wal-Mart Group in order to control the cost of goods. In my opinion, logistics

Distribution can be said to be an indispensable and important component for retail companies to implement chain operations. Without the development of logistics and distribution, there can be no real chain operations. Therefore, the level of a company's logistics and distribution reflects and determines the performance of the entire chain enterprise to a certain extent.

Operational level!”

Fang Mingyuan took out a few pages of information from the briefcase in Lin Lian's hand, handed it to Sun Zhaolun and said: "Uncle Sun, look at this paragraph, 'With the increase in the number of chain stores and the increase in sales, logistics and distribution have gradually become

The bottleneck of Wal-Mart Group's corporate development. In order to meet the distribution needs of Wal-Mart Group's more than 3,000 chain stores in the United States, Wal-Mart Group has set up 47 distribution centers in the United States and purchased nearly 30,000 large vehicles.

Container trailers and nearly 6,000 large freight trucks operate 24 hours a day and night. Last year, the total transportation volume reached 6.3 billion boxes, and the total distance traveled was more than 500 million kilometers!"

"Goods distribution on such a large scale involves all aspects of product procurement, inventory, logistics and sales management, which can be said to be very difficult to solve. In order to solve this problem, Wal-Mart Group established a special computer management system, satellite

It can be said that the positioning system and TV dispatching system are the first-class advanced technologies among retail companies around the world. In order to meet the needs of technical support, the computer control center of Wal-Mart Group is a behemoth.

The scale of the system is said to exceed that of the U.S. Department of Defense, and it has also cooperated with the U.S. Hughes Company to launch special satellites for information transmission of global stores and the positioning and communication of transportation vehicles. Sales, ordering, and inventory status of more than 3,000 stores around the world.

It can be called up and checked at any time. The company's nearly 6,000 large transport trucks are all equipped with satellite positioning systems. The computer control center personnel can know at a glance where each vehicle is, what cargo it is carrying, and its destination. Naturally, these can

Reasonably arrange the transportation volume and distance of these trucks, so as to maximize the transportation potential of the trucks, avoid waste, reduce costs, and improve delivery efficiency!" Fang Mingyuan paused, looked at Sun Zhaolun and Lin Lian, and then continued, "

We understand this truth, but even if the personnel we send are trained and learned by the Wal-Mart Group, can we replicate the same results?"

In China in the previous life, anyone in the shopping mall who knew a little bit about Wal-Mart Group knew that the low-cost strategy kept Wal-Mart Group's logistics costs at the lowest level in the industry. It can be said that this is the key to Wal-Mart Group's success.

It is the consistent business purpose of Wal-Mart Group to reduce costs as much as possible in the logistics operation process and pass on the saved costs to consumers.

For people who know the Wal-Mart Group, what impresses them most is its complete set of advanced and efficient logistics and supply chain management systems. The Wal-Mart Group has distribution centers, chain stores, and warehousing around the world.

Warehouses and cargo transportation vehicles, as well as partners, such as suppliers, are centralized, effectively managed and optimized by this system, forming a flexible and efficient product production, distribution and sales network. To this end, Wal-Mart Group

They even spent a lot of money to purchase logistics satellites to ensure the information transmission of this network. In the entire logistics process of Wal-Mart Group, the most expensive part is the transportation part, so when setting up new stores, Wal-Mart Group tries its best to use its current

With the distribution center as the starting point, stores are generally located around the distribution center to shorten delivery time and reduce delivery costs. Wal-Mart Group's investment in logistics is also very concentrated in the construction of logistics distribution centers.

However, these successful experiences have made it difficult for other companies around the world to imitate them, let alone these emerging retail companies in China. The reason why in the previous life, the supermarket chain companies in China have imitated

Carefour Group's business model, and gave up the Wal-Mart Group's business model. This is the most important reason.

The cost of building such a management system is simply too high!

Not to mention the value of Wal-Mart Group's large-scale servers all over the world, or the commercial satellite worth up to 400 million US dollars, it is just that each of Wal-Mart Group's cargo transport vehicles has a satellite mobile computer system.

, it is difficult for Chinese companies to imitate it! Moreover, the IT investment and upgrade management costs to maintain this huge network are not something that most companies can afford.

And even though some companies around the world have since implemented and applied supply chain management systems, the results are difficult to compare with those of Wal-Mart Group. The reason is that some supply chain management software is more developed by IT technicians and programmers.

To develop, management ideas and concepts that represent the world's advanced level are difficult to imitate.

When Chinese enterprises build a nationwide supply chain management system, they will not only encounter difficulties in experience, personnel, and funds. More often, they face the fact that the basic management of domestic enterprises is weak and the overall informatization level is not high.

There are many problems such as numerous government taxes and fees, insufficient transportation system capacity, localism in various provinces, and so on.

Not to mention anything else, China and the United States are not comparable in terms of road transportation alone. In the United States in the 1990s, highways had begun to take shape, and American highways basically had no tolls. In China,

The expressway has just started, and will become a high-priced highway in the future. For this reason alone, the transportation cost of goods of Chinese enterprises will be far higher than that of similar foreign enterprises. Not to mention, whether it only rises or falls,

Even compared with European and American countries, the oil price is not inferior.

Therefore, in the view of the management of Wal-Mart Group, even if all departments of the company are opened to Carrefour Supermarket, Carrefour Supermarket, which lacks funds, will only be helpless in the end! At best, it will only learn superficially and will not be able to grasp the core essence. As for Carrefour Supermarket,

Carrefour supermarkets don't care at all about other concepts they learned from it.

Sun Zhaolun and Lin Lian quickly understood what Fang Mingyuan meant. After being silent for a while, they shook their heads one after another. It was too difficult for Carrefour Supermarket to replicate the Wal-Mart Group's logistics system in China.

.And even if Carrefour Supermarket has the funds and the management can make this determination, the country will not allow a private company to own a commercial satellite.

"On the surface, they have indeed helped us train our employees, but I'm afraid you have all overlooked one point, that is, the training methods of Americans are very different from those of China. They are more interactive. In other words, our training methods are very different from ours.

While employees are receiving training from them, they are also constantly providing them with domestic information for reference by the management of Wal-Mart Group. The people who know the Chinese retail industry best are naturally those of us who are engaged in the Chinese retail industry.

Practitioners, from their mouths and from their work, will reflect the specific situation of our domestic retail industry. In this way, Wal-Mart Group can understand the current situation of China's retail industry to the greatest extent before entering China.

.From this point of view, they deserve it!”

"Second, we and Wal-Mart Group can be said to be competitors in the future. This is true. But don't forget that we and Carefour Group are also competitors! And Carefour Group and Wal-Mart Group are even more competitors. So.

, supporting the weakest of us will not affect the core interests of Wal-Mart Group, but can take this opportunity to create some troubles for Carefour Group. It is best for us to fully learn the management methods of Carefour Group, that way

It is more beneficial to Wal-Mart Group." In fact, there is another point that Fang Mingyuan thought of but did not say out loud.

China's market is too big. A large market with a land area equal to that of Europe and the United States, and a population exceeding the sum of both countries. It is a behemoth that neither Wal-Mart Group nor Carefour Group can swallow alone. Moreover, the Chinese government cannot allow outsiders to come in.

The retail giants occupy the country's retail market, so the Chinese market will inevitably be divided among a group of giants for a long time. The weakest local Chinese companies actually pose no threat to the two groups.

ability. Their real opponent is only the other party. In their eyes, they will only have the other party.

This is just like the Soviet Union, the United States, and China during the Cold War. Although China's military strength is very weak compared with the leading countries of the two major war organizations, if China leans towards one side, the other side will feel that it is surrounded by dangers, so it was weak at the time.

Only the United States will try its best to win over China. Now the two major retail groups are almost evenly matched, but whoever can get the help of China's local enterprises may have the upper hand in occupying the Chinese market. Before defeating the other party,

As the weakest supermarket, Carrefour Supermarket, Wal-Mart Group will naturally win over it. It would be better if people like me were short-sighted and entrusted all Carrefour Supermarket's overseas procurement to Wal-Mart Group.

"Maybe the Wal-Mart Group has other considerations, which we haven't thought of for a while, but I think we don't have to think that the Wal-Mart Group is simply a walking thunderbolt. In order to suppress China, the United States and Japan can rearm

, not to mention the little sweetness he gave. This is a win-win deal, and the only one disappointed is CareFour Group. As for who gets the bigger advantage, us or Wal-Mart Group, time will tell." Fang Mingyuan laughed.

He said, "Uncle Sun, I'll leave this matter to you and Sister Lian, try to rip it off! Such an opportunity is not easy to get!"

Sun Zhaolun's old face was so full of smiles. As Fang Mingyuan said, the opportunity to scrape a piece of flesh from the world's retail leader like Wal-Mart Group is not something that only one person can get.

No, I will be one of the subjects studied by business school students in the future.

"Well, I have a few conditions or ideas. Please note them down and try your best to fight for them when negotiating with them." Fang Mingyuan thought for a moment and said, "I hope to send people to their commodity inspection department for training, and eventually

So we can purchase a complete set of equipment from the inspection department of the Wal-Mart Group." Unlike many companies in the commercial field in China, although the U.S. government has detailed regulations and inspection departments for the quality of goods, Wal-Mart

The group still has its own product inspection department, which uses a variety of technical means to strictly inspect the quality of all purchased products. Products from reputable suppliers are randomly inspected; products from new suppliers are subject to random inspections.

Focus on inspection to prevent counterfeit and shoddy goods from entering supermarkets, which will affect the reputation of thousands of stores throughout the company. This method of inspecting goods in the distribution center not only controls the source of the goods, but also solves the problem of lack of adequate supply in each store.

It is difficult to carry out standardized inspection of product quality using technical means.

Fang Mingyuan hopes that through this, he can control the entry of counterfeit and shoddy products in supermarket purchases, especially food.

Regarding the quality of food in China, Fang Mingyuan, who has experienced his previous life, has deep feelings. There is almost nothing on the market that everyone can eat with confidence, including moldy rice that contains aflatoxin, which can quickly cause liver cancer, and whitening in the flour.

Agents, liquor contains highly toxic industrial alcohol methanol, oils include gutter oil, milk contains melamine and big-headed dolls, medicines include fake drugs that kill people, fish contains residues of various banned fish drugs, eggs contain Sudan red, and vermicelli added to vermicelli may cause cancer.

Ammonium bicarbonate fertilizers and ammonia are used for whitening, dichlorvos is added to ham, and water is injected into pork. These are all merciless... Almost all products on the market have problems to one degree or another.

Moreover, a number of well-known food manufacturers have been involved in the whirlpool of food safety crises. Even KFC, Heinz chili sauce, Lipton black tea, Kraft sandwich biscuits and other foreign foods that have entered the Chinese market have also been involved.

This has to make people reflect: As a Chinese, what else can we eat with confidence?

The relevant standards for Huaxia food production are composed of four levels: national standards, industry standards, local standards, and enterprise standards. At present, standards including various food product standards, food contaminants and pesticide residue limit standards, and food hygiene operating specifications have been formulated.

There are many standards. But in fact, many standards have not been effectively implemented. The reasons why standards are "difficult to implement" are complex. The main reason is that the standards are scattered and overlapping, and there is a lack of coordination mechanism. The current various food standards are scattered in agriculture, quality supervision, health

Six or seven departments, including pollution-free agricultural products, green food, organic agricultural products, "QS" system, etc., many standards conflict in the market. Not only the general public are confused, but even enterprises and experts sometimes do not know.

Just inside.

Since China has a multi-headed management of food production, it creates an embarrassing situation where everyone can take charge but no one can ignore it. So when they get money, everyone rushes in, but when something goes wrong, everyone shrinks their necks and has nothing to do with them. Unlucky

Or the broad masses of people.

Even Wal-Mart Group had to set up a new academy after entering China - the Fresh Food Academy! The members of the Fresh Food Academy are experienced fresh food experts from China and other countries, and they regularly travel to various parts of China on business

, provides fresh food training and support to the management and employees of the fresh food area of ​​supermarkets under the Wal-Mart Group. Its courses cover all fresh food department training in China, including fresh food hygiene knowledge, fresh food standards, supplier fresh food

How to judge the food situation, etc.

In his previous life, Fang Mingyuan was helpless. After all, as an individual, it was impossible for him to have the energy and financial resources to inspect tens of thousands of types of food on the market one by one to ensure his own food safety. But in this life, doing

As the owner of a retail company, Fang Mingyuan feels that he should shoulder this responsibility. At least when facing overwhelming food crises in the future, he can face the public calmly and tell the media that Carrefour Supermarket is a responsible company.

As an enterprise, we are doing our best to prevent substandard food and products from flowing into people's homes through our supermarkets.

As Fang Mingyuan spoke, Sun Zhaolun and Lin Lian hurriedly remembered...