According to the scheduling of the order, after many efforts, the delivery period is still two and a half months, and there is no problem in supporting three months, which gives Zhao Feng a lot of ways to ease and find countermeasures.
Don't worry too much about the order for the time being, but there is one thing that is imminent: materials.
Ancient jewelry, the variety is relatively small, the raw materials used are not much, but now talk about personality, more elements, like Zhao Feng did the national gift last time, just the material reached dozens of kinds, to advance a batch of materials can be used for a long time, because the money is not much, and there are few people, plus Zhao Feng is only a few people, but now it is different, Jiubang has more than 2,000 employees, these employees are still skilled employees, and the materials consumed every month are a large amount.
What makes Zhao Feng anxious is that the inventory of raw materials is urgent, to be precise, the inventory of ingredients can only last for half a month at most, because of this incident, Zhao Feng got on the luxury car to Hong Kong the next day.
Free economic society, the world's global village, it is difficult to get credit now, but there is money in hand, it is easy to buy anything, such as jewelry accessories, Huacheng has hundreds of them, one hand to pay the money and one hand to deliver, it is not a controlled product, no one checks what you buy it for, Zhao Feng is anxious, that is because there is no good partner now.
Ingredients are not out of thin air, including mining, processing, sales of several links, especially the sales link, the more hands, the higher the cost, like the goods sold in street shops, I don't know how many hands have turned, just like fruits, many in the place of origin worth a few cents a pound, tossed to the hands of customers, ten times eight times more common, Jiubang needs a large amount, take more goods from the source.
Not only does the quality be guaranteed, but the price is also relatively favorable.
Some criminals, in the process of changing hands, shoddy, and even some people use fake ones to infiltrate, some ordinary materials, and others they don't make much, but in the hands of processors, especially when it comes to export goods, it is possible that a single detail will ruin all the previous efforts. 、 It's not just a reputational issue, it can also involve a huge breach of contract.
Due to the pressure of the Knights of the Golden Round Table, the big ingredient manufacturers who are now at the top of the industry have blacklisted Jiubang, and they have also threatened to suppress all of them if they help Jiubang, so that Tang Yue tried his best, but it still didn't work.
In order to be competitive, we must not only provide better quality services, but also have an advantage in price.
Like a broken diamond about a point, the small ingredient store on the side of the road is about 7 to 8 points a grain, but with a large agent to get the goods, about three points can be obtained, meet the market is good, the number is too lazy to count, directly use the scale to weigh, how much is a gram, from which you can pick out a higher value of the diamond, don't underestimate this penny, now popular micro inlay, group inlay, some of a piece of jewelry to three or five hundred diamonds, a batch of tens of thousands of pieces of one, counting to millions of grains, this is a lot of money.
If everything is more expensive than others, sooner or later it will be eliminated by others.
Zhao Feng bumped into Tang Yue in Tang Yue's office.
"Boss, you're here, drink tea."
When Tang Yue saw Zhao Feng coming, he immediately poured him the tea that had been prepared early in the morning.
Zhao Feng was not polite, picked up the tea and drank it all, and then said, "Okay, you also know my temperament, tell me what the situation is now." ” "Several big ingredient suppliers have refused to cooperate with us, or to be precise, they refuse to give us discounts, although the goods are cheaper than the retail outside, but they are still about 30% more expensive than others, and some friends who cooperate with us, after being warned, have also begun to alienate us."
"It's normal, mutual benefit is naturally good, and now our Jiubang has become shit in the eyes of others, which one is close and which one is stinky."
That's how it is in business, and the reality is terrible.
It is impossible for others to offend those shopping mall predators who have all the means because of their so-called friends, and it would be good if they didn't pray that they could help pull a hand.
"I'm sorry, boss, but I'm useless."
Tang Yue lowered his head a little ashamedly.
After all, in the evil capitalist society, there is no problem that money cannot solve, but what makes Tang Yue frustrated is that his experience and connections are extremely fragile in the face of reality.
In this way, the previous rhetoric and ambition have become empty words and jokes.
Zhao Feng waved his hand and said: "I can't blame you for this matter, to be honest, I ran to London with confidence this time, it's not that I eat ginkgo seeds, I really can't find a substitute, is there any contact between the sellers in Eastern Europe?"
"It's connected, no" Tang Yue said helplessly: "The Cold War has been over for decades, the confrontation is long gone, those big stone merchants have a circle, they have a tacit understanding with each other, that is, the price we gave is very sincere, but they still refuse, saying that the rules are the rules." ” "It's strange, that Knight of the Golden Round Table, he really has so much energy to control all the raw materials in the world, so wouldn't he do whatever he wanted?"
Zhao Feng knew that Kami Tanaka, Peter and the energy were very large, but he couldn't imagine that the other party was so strong that he couldn't believe it, and when he booked the booth, others kicked him away even if he breached the contract and did jewelry processing, and they actually intercepted resources from the upstream, so that they couldn't get high-quality and cheap materials.
Although there was no fierce struggle, Zhao Feng felt as if there was an invisible hand that was tightly choking his throat and giving himself a fatal blow at any time.
Tang Yue whispered: "Boss, although I haven't solved the problem these days, I have solved some of the inside story. ” "Oh, then you say."
Tang Yue didn't dare to hang his appetite, and began to say what he knew.
"Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, there are rivers and lakes and there are struggles, many people for various purposes, huddle into a group, like the jewelry industry there are many guilds, trade unions and other small groups, the Knights of the Golden Table is the jewelry industry top, but also the most mysterious group, mainly Western jewelry giants, headed by a son from the Bill family, called John Beale, the Bill family is the first person engaged in South African diamond oil mining, is a well-known diamond family, some people described, the Bill family can control or influence the diamond market sixty percent of the share, of course, No one can count the real data, and the rest of the members are either the top enterprises in the industry or large stone merchants, with strict organization and strong execution. ” "The world is so big, it is very difficult to monopolize, and the annual output value of the jewelry industry is as high as one trillion, such a big cake, it is impossible for civil groups to swallow it, but they are very smart, choose to monopolize several important ingredients, and then put pressure on others through those ingredients, every big ingredient supplier wants their goods to be complete, naturally do not want to offend them, on the one hand is a second-rate small business, on the other hand is a giant in the jewelry industry, the lesser of the two, naturally will not offend them."
Zhao Feng nodded and said: "They only said that the price would increase by three percent, and did not say that they would not sell, and gave a glimmer of hope to cut off our way, when the materials are more expensive, the labor is a little higher, and the price of receiving orders is a little lower, and slowly our advantages will disappear little by little, a bit like a boiled frog in warm water, an uncompetitive enterprise, and it is only a matter of time before it is eliminated." ” "It's so insidious, these foreign devils, just doing these things."
Tang Yue said with some indignation.
"It's a little difficult" Zhao Feng glanced at Tang Yue, and then said, "Sister Tang, tell me, how do we deal with this situation." ” The biggest difference between ordinary employees and excellent employees is ability, Tang Yue can take charge alone, ability is by no means covered, Zhao Feng believes that she just can't find a replacement smoothly, and there must be certain countermeasures.
Tang Yue hesitated, and quickly said: "The solution to the current problem is not nothing, you can register some leather bag companies, or order in the name of offshore companies, many trading companies are forced by their pressure, do not make friends with us, the daily trading volume is so large, how can they have time to check the buyer's background, see that the buyer is not Jiubang, the disadvantage of this method is that it cannot form a long-term cooperative relationship, although there are discounts, there is certainly no long-term cooperation cost-effective, but it is to find out, we will not take much time to register a new one." ” This method is a bit like playing a game with a trumpet to open a plug-in to support the big one, if it is sealed and then opened, it will not be heartbroken anyway, Zhao Feng nodded when he heard the words and said: "Is there anything else?"
"Yes, we avoid his monopoly of materials, after investigation found that in fact, it is difficult to buy several raw materials, especially diamonds, but this kind of market is hot, if we avoid these materials in design, it is best to choose domestic materials, so that we are not afraid of being controlled by others."
When Zhao Feng heard this, he nodded, stretched out a thumbs up and said, "Yes, insightful, I thought of a solution so quickly." ” Tang Yue said a little embarrassed: "Actually, it's not a good way, just take the diamond they are stuck the tightest, it's a diamond hit, and most of the current orders are for diamonds. ” "Yes" Zhao Feng sighed: "This is the difference between short-sightedness or long-term, like our Huaxia, there are also a lot of exquisite raw materials, such as jade Lantian jade, Hetian jade, Xiuyan jade, bloodstone, etc., the culture of jade has been inherited for thousands of years, but jade rarely goes abroad, diamonds were only discovered in 1871, but they can be popular all over the world in just over a hundred years, that is their planned, unremitting publicity and promotion, and the premise of their promotion is that they are in a monopoly position. ” "There are resources in hand, nature spares no effort to promote, tap its potential, diamond is actually a hard stone, but in the heart of the publicity and packaging, become a symbol of loyal love, the value will rise, 1 carat is how big, 02 grams, but how many girls for this little diamond desperate, in the final analysis, viral packaging, packaging to the hearts of the people."
Speaking of this, Zhao Feng suddenly said to himself: "I don't know why, I suddenly feel that what Viagra said is very reasonable. ”: