"Mr. Wu, I finally met you in person. I really can't believe you are so young. You are at such an enviable age."
I met Ali's waiter at Wu Zhou's company, but their trip was mainly for visiting and studying.
So the meeting address was chosen in the warehousing and logistics department. A slightly remote address located on the outskirts of Yuncheng.
At the entrance of the warehouse, there is an endless stream of express logistics vehicles.
The main express delivery service is SF Express. As for logistics, it is actually mainly the company’s own trucks.
Occasionally, when the order volume suddenly increases, you may need to find a special car temporarily.
Otherwise, we will just slowly add people and cars as our performance grows.
"Your company's warehousing and logistics department has invested a lot of money. It feels almost the same as our self-operated logistics department."
Wu Zhou himself nodded.
"There is nothing we can do about it. The quantity is too large. If we have to pack and ship goods manually, we will need to recruit too many people. Let's not talk about whether there are so many suitable people in Yuncheng. It will not be easy to manage if there are too many people. ." There are many e-commerce companies that suffer a large amount of damage during inventory every month. Isn't it because many employees take a few away after get off work?
Before Wu Zhou's warehouse upgrade, the monthly warehouse inventory loss could reach about 1%, which was a bit too high.
Because there were too many orders in the past, we frequently needed to recruit external brokers and some temporary packagers. After there were more people, this or that was less. How to check.
After all, everyone knows that the things in Wu Zhou's family are good, and even a little something may be higher than a day's part-time salary.
Of course there are people who "take risks".
It is also because of this that the technology upgrade speed of the company's warehouse is the fastest.
At present, there are only 89 "technical" personnel in the warehouse and 26 warehouse system i personnel. They are mainly responsible for handling some occasional system bugs, as well as making early prevention and system upgrades based on daily order volume, frequent problems, etc. .
A warehouse master has to drive a forklift or a small truck, shuttle back and forth between the warehouses, and move the goods to the trucks.
There are still 20 truck drivers, but most of them have gone out to deliver goods. Some of them stay in the company and rest.
After all, they rarely have free time.
Before the upgrade, the warehouse staff of more than 200 people could handle no more than 30,000 to 50,000 orders a day.
But now that the staff has been streamlined, it is more than enough to handle 10+ orders every day.
Occasionally there will be outbreaks, and if you work a little overtime, there will be no problem.
Due to a series of supporting equipment upgrades, the work output of a single person in the warehousing department has increased by more than eight times.
Of course, their wages have also increased at least three times compared to before, and any one of them can earn more than 10,000 yuan.
The biggest problem now is that local logistics sites may not have so many vehicles to transport goods.
The subsequent warehouse upgrade plan will at best increase the reserve of system i technical personnel.
Other personnel are mainly machinery and industrial robots.
At present, the company is already contacting industrial robot companies to design and debug warehouse robots.
It is expected that the product will be offline in another week or two.
When the robots are installed in the warehouse, the scene will definitely be much more shocking than it is now.
But even these things surprised everyone.
This is completely incomparable with the other leading merchants they have met before.
At this moment, they looked at Wu Zhou's young face and listened to his detailed introduction of technical effects.
Let them feel that they are visiting a high-tech company at this moment, not an e-commerce company.
"No wonder your consumer logistics experience score has been so good." Looking at the many goods in front of him, being packaged and shipped in an orderly manner, a waiter couldn't help but sigh.
Not long after, when I passed by a sealed room, there were many equipments and people wearing strict clothes.
Real staff.
Everyone turned their curious eyes to Wu Zhou again.
"This is our company's own product quality inspection department."
"For every batch of raw materials we purchase, ten will be randomly selected. When the products leave the warehouse, 10 will be randomly selected again, for a total of 20. This is a double guarantee. Both the raw materials and the products sold are well controlled. product quality."
"If normally submitted to some local quality inspection departments, the time limit would be too long, and if it falls within the holidays, it would have to be extended. So this department had no choice but to set up a quality inspection department of its own. Most of these people who import equipment from abroad are recruited from first-tier cities. It is difficult for Yuncheng to recruit people first. "
"However, many of our snacks are primarily processed agricultural products, so there will be a certain fluctuation from time to time due to factors such as sunlight, rain, climate, etc. "
The waiters looked at Wu Zhou even more strangely.
Other businesses are stipulated by laws and regulations and are forced to do quality inspections every six months.
Wu Zhou's side is good, he is proactive and conducts ultra-frequent quality inspections.
"No wonder the quality of your products has always been so good." A waiter couldn't help but sigh.
"Food is the most important thing for the people, and food safety is of course the most important thing." Wu Zhou said it matter of course.
But now everyone looked at Wu Zhou with completely different eyes.
Not only what Wu Zhou said, but also what he just saw. Wu Zhou was just summarizing what he had done.
Before I came here, I wanted to ask Wu Zhou why he set the price so high.
What I'm thinking about right now is, there are so many hidden costs, how can they be kept low?
"So, you still get what you pay for. Food should not be cheap."
"It would be great if all food industry practitioners were like Mr. Wu." A waiter said with emotion.
But Wu Zhou shook his head.
"When I first started, I couldn't do it. I just made some mistakes after making money." "And different prices have different demand groups. After all, everyone's income has not reached that level yet. It’s too expensive and I can’t afford it.”
"Mr. Wu can actually build a snack sub-brand, reduce some company profits, and lower the customer order of the product so that more ordinary people can afford it. This is what some brands in the industry are doing now, and the sales volume is okay. ." Wan Cong said with a smile. He also actively recruited some "sub-high-end" brands that were good in the industry to enter Tmall Supermarket, and the output was pretty good.
But Wu Zhou smiled and shook his head again.
"There are many high-quality brands emerging on the market now. Their market share has only begun to expand a little bit. If I lower the price at this time, these newly established corporate brands may be doomed. A benign industry still needs more participants."
In fact, a lot of high-end single brands have sprung up in the snack industry recently, most of which are riding on the traffic of Wuzhouqiao Feijia and Gourmet.
It's nothing more than the same goods origin, but the price is 20 to 30% lower.
Through shaking hands, and some paid review bloggers, etc., we promote and attract traffic.
Some brands and individual products have even achieved monthly sales exceeding 10,000, and most of the reviews say, "I bought them based on reviews."
It can be seen that these marketing routines are indeed feasible.
Liu Bin and Liu Fei had reported these matters to Wu Zhou before.
Because most of these brands are selective, even if they only select one point for evaluation and comparison, they don’t know how many ingredients they used for the evaluation. In the end, some batches were selected and some of the ingredients were good. Compared with Wu Zhou, Some batches of raw materials are slightly inferior for comparison.
In addition, Wu Zhou also let it go.
This is what makes these brands gain momentum.
Of course, if some bloggers are unscrupulous and even deliberately harass Wu Zhou, and damage the brand image of Wu Zhou, they will receive a letter from the lawyer directly.
What awaits them will be
, the actuary of Wuzhou Company’s legal department calculated a huge compensation.
