Saint Hesse has been leaving early and coming back late these days, and he has done very well in the staff department, which makes his colleagues somewhat impressed.
St. Jose was just a keyboard warrior in his previous life, but he has experienced the baptism of the information explosion era, studied various fragmented materials, and understood the overall trend of the country's military and economy in the following decades, allowing St. Jose to express some unique opinions from time to time. .
And it seems that he has gradually discovered some unique skills, that is, he can point out mistakes and provide insights at critical moments, which can change other colleagues' attitudes towards Saint Jose.
In the staff department, Saint Jose, as a mud-legged person, was initially recognized by most people. Originally, most of the staff officers here looked at people with their nostrils turned to the sky, which was somewhat pretentious.
After all, everyone likes such a humble, courteous, knowledgeable and experienced colleague who occasionally directly reduces the difficulty of your work without taking any credit.
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He was busy day and night, and had to spend a lot of time on his side business plan. This way he had no time to go to canneries and soda factories to inspect the work. In order to prevent these people from doing things in private, Saint Jose rented a floor in the city. Office, ask their person in charge to report here after get off work.
Daily outbound data, production plans, purchased raw materials, work progress, etc. all need to be submitted here, and can only be implemented after being personally reviewed by Saint Jose.
Cross, the general manager of Prali Food Company, would come over and report in person for thirty minutes. It turned out that Cross also lived nearby.
St. Heseti reviewed the data and put forward a plan, which allowed the cannery and soda factory to develop at a very fast speed, and the output was greatly increased. In terms of sales, work was reported once a week, and a nationwide sales network began to be initially established.
The plastic bottle factory that Li Qingyun is responsible for supervising is also being built quickly. The foundation has been laid and the construction work on the first floor has begun. The progress is pretty good. It is expected that the factory will be completed in February next year and put into production in April.
"What? The glass factory our factory cooperates with is going bankrupt? What does this mean?" St. Jose stood up directly, supporting the table with both hands, looking at Cross with an ugly face.
"Boss, that means literally, they are going to shut down the Sean Glass Factory we work with," Cross answered carefully, and it was the first time he saw his boss look a little angry.
There are currently only two glass factories in Cordoba, and these two are even the only two in the province. They are both state-owned glass factories. However, San Jose chose a small glass factory because of the price factor and the fact that it was not considered a big one at the beginning. The St. Martin Factory attaches great importance to it and is unwilling to produce food glass, preferring to make glass for civil building materials. The Sean Glass Factory has such a production line and can be directly transformed.
Due to the backlog of products, Sean Glass Factory had a lot of glass bottles in stock. It could be used by asking a hardware factory to add lids. After San Jose gradually cleared the inventory, it increased the order quantity of soda bottles. Logically speaking, it cannot go bankrupt. , the large orders from Saint Jose alone are enough to feed these people.
"Yes, boss. I heard that Sean State-owned Glass Factory is preparing for bankruptcy and liquidation due to poor management and unpaid wages. Our glass bottles have also stopped production. The workers are planning to sell the production line or something, and the union has also come forward... Because the sales of soda water factories have begun to spread across the country, our current inventory of glass bottles and jars is only enough for less than a week's production. If there are no substitutes, the production line will have to stop production." A thousand mythical beasts passed by in Saint Jose's mind, This time it's troublesome.
"Well, can we contact another glass factory, the St. Martin Glass Factory? Have you contacted traders from outside the city and the province?" St. Jose thought for a while and then spoke.
"I have contacted the St. Martin glass factory, which mainly produces glass for civilian windows, and is unwilling to set up a new production line. It said that it does not comply with the production plan set by the government and will never open a new production line for us. They are very good." Cross apparently also contacted the St. Martin Glass Factory and was very angry.
"Only the capital has a glass bottle factory in the country, but it seems that it has gone bankrupt in the past six months. The price of glass bottles from traders is more than three times our current price. We cannot afford such a cost. We will lose a dollar if we sell one bottle. Bottles, currently due to production volume, our profit margins have remained relatively low." The glass factories went bankrupt one after another, and San Jose finally smelled a different atmosphere.
In order to fight a price war, Saint-Jesus has compressed the profit margin of the soda water factory, and the scale effect is not great now. The main revenue generator is the canning factory. The soda water factory currently only has very low profits. Three times the glass bottles will lose money. .
"Do you know why the Sean Factory went bankrupt? Be more specific."
"These are my investigative reports. The main reason is that wages are in arrears, and wages are very low. The yield rate is not very high. The technology is backward and losses are suffered every year. In addition, workers are causing trouble. The Ministry of Economic Development plans to close the factory and liquidate it." I also took the report and read it carefully.
The report shows the data of this glass factory in the past five years, including output, yield, production cost, operating rate, sales, loss funds and a series of data, which are very detailed.
“Where does this data come from?”
"I asked someone to find it from the warehouse in the factory. It cost 1,000 pesos. There was also a lot of information. I didn't get it. They sold it as waste paper." This is outrageous. Important data is treated as waste paper.
"I saw that their workers were demonstrating, sitting in, etc., but production has been stopped. Except for the production line, many other things have been sold, and wages cannot be paid."
"Didn't we pay a lot of money for goods in recent months?"
"I heard that I used it to repay bank loans, but the workers still didn't get paid and felt cheated..." These are also some of the shortcomings of small factories. If management is not in place, it is easy to go bankrupt. Anyway, the management can go anywhere. To survive, front-line workers may not be doing so well.
"Start the emergency plan, open a glass bottle recycling business in the soda factory, and add an assembly line for cleaning glass bottles. I will ask the business department to cooperate." Originally, Saint-Jesse did not want to recycle glass bottles, mainly because the cost was not worthwhile and labor It’s expensive. Distributors have no awareness of recycling and just sell whole sticks. This is fine in places like restaurants, but not in small stores.
It is too troublesome to recycle it yourself. The strength of the soda factory is still too small. Due to various reasons, the cost of recycling glass bottles exceeds that of new production. It would be better if a soda factory is set up on the spot in the future. The recycling cost is not as good as directly producing brand new ones and recycling the glass. Bottles are actually the basic operation of later generations, because the price of three times the glass bottle is far beyond the bottom line of St. Jose, and it is not even the lowest.
"Yes, boss! I'll make a plan right away." Cross obviously didn't think of this method, and his original worries were swept away.
"Okay, you go back first. By the way, give me the information you bought. I want to take a look." Saint Jose waved his hand.
"Okay boss, the information is on my desk. I'll move it over." After speaking, Cross left the office and moved a large cardboard box over with difficulty. It was full of information and the paper was a little yellowed.
Recycling glass bottles can only temporarily relieve the urgent need. If other competitors attack at this time, the poor market share will be swallowed up immediately. If the sales market does not continue to expand, Saint Jose's high debt operation will not be able to survive the day of currency devaluation.
Take out the information in the carton and look through it carefully. Sean Glass Factory was founded in 1922. It mainly produces civilian glass products. The factory area is 2,200 square meters. Its main products are glass wine glasses, glass bowls, and glass bottles. This type of project was built with Spanish production equipment imported from the city of Cordoba. At its peak, there were more than 800 workers, but now there are only more than 200 left. Among them, more than 100 people no longer work in the factory and are in arrears. salary.
In fact, Sean Glass Factory is not very far from the city center, and it is only ten kilometers away from Prali Factory. Saint-Jesse originally set up Prali Factory in the cattle shed because it was relatively close. Sean Glass The factory is located in a suburb close to the city, and the transportation is good.
After reading the information, it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening. Saint Jose left the office and went home. He also met his neighbor from last time and said hello casually.
The problem of glass bottles must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise we cannot afford the losses caused by the shutdown. The current pressure-bearing capacity is not enough. Once production is stopped, the losses will be unacceptable. Even the plastic bottle factory will be dragged down. The debt of 90 million pesos is okay, even with inflation. The last 90 million pesos is not something Saint Jose can afford.
Saint Hesse already has some ideas in his mind and must solve this problem as soon as possible.
The reason why this glass factory went bankrupt was not because of insufficient production technology, but because of poor management in the production process, which resulted in huge waste. The workers had no major problems, and the glass factory was even "technically" bankrupt.
In the later years of Argentina's liberalization wave of reforms, comprehensive and complete privatization was also a complete failure of state capitalism.
Just like Russia and Ukraine after the disintegration, state-owned companies across the country were sold and so-called shock therapy was implemented. The most stupid thing is Ukraine. Not only did it have nothing, but it was also completely brainwashed by the West headed by the Yankees, and it has since become a small, fourth-rate country. , there is no hope anymore.
The new idea is to acquire this glass bottle factory. Anyway, the production of beverages and cans will always require glass products in the future.
Now that there is sufficient funds, and the glass factory collapses, the city's Ministry of Economy may accept Saint Jose as its successor.
This problem must be solved within five days at the earliest. Recycling the glass bottles will take a while and require extraordinary means. We must seek help from Commander Tomps, even if it costs a certain amount.
Normally speaking, this kind of factory that "seems" to be heavily in debt is in deep water. It is best to let it go bankrupt naturally. It is wise to not get involved to protect yourself. If someone "reserves" this factory, then they must rob it. .
After analyzing a large amount of data, I found that it is very likely that the hunting time has arrived. The canned goods in St. Jose are okay. After all, it is a small market. However, the expansion of the soda plant has offended some people. Is the workers' riot really as obvious as it appears? Is it easy? It seems that there is an invisible hand behind it. After all, the Sean Glass Factory has an order from St. Jose. How could it stop working and go bankrupt so quickly? Don’t blame St. Jose for being a bit of a conspiracy theory.
But this glass bottle problem has strangled the lifeblood of Saint Jose, and directly hit the seven inches of Saint Jose. What Saint Jose lacks most is time.
The plastic bottle factory will be put into production in a few months. The issue of glass bottles is a matter of life and death. Even if three times the price can be tolerated in the short term, the next step may be five times or ten times the price. This is unbearable.
After sorting out my thoughts, I found that the recent development of my side business has indeed been smooth sailing. Secretly, it must have offended a large number of people, such as some powerful congressmen, the national network development of the soda factory, and the low-interest loans obtained by the plastic bottle factory. These are all a bit too much. The success made Saint Jose relax his vigilance a little.
If transportation prices are not considered, there are very few domestic manufacturers of glass products. Except for the province of Cordoba, only the capital produces glass bottles.
Cross also reminded that many glass factories in the capital are said to have gone bankrupt, even earlier than the one in Cordoba. They were acquired by foreign capital. Otherwise, they were not managed well and there was no market. In other words, Saint Jose has already It’s not a good thing that we can’t find the supply of glass bottles in China.
In fact, glass products are not particularly precious to modern industry. Even if they are only imported from Uruguay, the tariffs, travel expenses, and losses are astronomical.
It is very cost-effective to import glass, and the raw materials for production are not expensive. Quartz sand, borax, boric acid, barite, barium carbonate, limestone, feldspar, and soda ash are cheap and easy to obtain.
Most glass product factories are locally produced to meet the needs. Civilian glass is too easy to break during transportation. Industrial explosion-proof glass is better, but the loss on the road is also great.
Cordoba is the domestic center and transportation hub, which is very suitable for establishing a rear production base. The capital has a large population, strong consumption, and developed domestic and international transportation, so it is also suitable for building factories.
This was also the consideration when setting up this canning factory in the city, but I never expected that these glass factories and foreign capital would be so shameless, selling a glass bottle for three times the price. You know, in order for the Sean Glass Factory to accept the price, Saint-Jesus It is relatively high. The original purchase price was very expensive, and if it gets more expensive, it will be quite a ridiculous price.
Monopoly management of capital, natural demand, and monopoly are the prerequisites for obtaining excess profits. This also reminded St. Jose. It must be said that St. Jose was lucky at the time.
This problem must be solved properly, and we cannot let anyone choke us. The production scale is not large now, but fortunately, at this point in time, it is more fatal. There is no supply, the plastic bottle factory has not been put into production, the glass bottle factory will go bankrupt, and other manufacturers will raise prices. , this is intended to drain San Jose's cash flow and then kill it with a fatal blow.
After thoroughly thinking about the cause and effect, even though the quilt was so warm, a thin layer of cold sweat leaked from the pajamas behind me. I hope I wasn't thinking too much. It was always easy to think too much before going to bed, and I felt like I was suffering from delusions of persecution.
We must hurry up and buy the glass bottle factory with money, or let others solve this problem, or even solve the person who caused the problem. Don't even think about the third one.
That night, St. Hesse had some insomnia and was thinking wildly. He looked at the moon hanging high outside the window. He was really sleepy and fell asleep. In his dream, he was in debt of 100 million yuan and would not finish it for the rest of his life. His job was ruined and he still had to work. The end...
