Chapter 199 Purchase Order

Chapter 199 Purchase Order

Chapter 199 Purchase Order (Medium Cup)
Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, it was November 11th.

This year's Double Eleven activities have become much more powerful and have fewer tricks. Various e-commerce platforms have made a lot of changes.

It has changed from the previous complexity and routine to a return to the original activity strategy.

This happens because they are aware of the threat.

Since mid-October, the user registration scale of the Hailufeng Specialty Store APP has ushered in a new wave of explosion, and the total number of user registrations has now reached 7795 million.

For a professional agricultural product sales platform, the number of registered users of the Hailufeng Specialty Store APP has reached a limit.

Although it seems that the Hailufeng Store APP belongs to a specialized e-commerce platform, somewhat similar to Vipshop, Suning.com, and Dangdang.com, since October, when Hailufeng Company began to expand its exclusive contracted growers and breeders, the three major e-commerce giants have felt increasingly threatened.

Different from traditional e-commerce and traditional physical stores, the model of Hailufeng specialty store is somewhat similar to Suning.com, but it is more deeply integrated into the industrial chain than Suning.com.

After all, Suning.com does not produce its own electrical appliances.

Hailufeng Company not only signs contracts with growers and breeders, but also runs its own farms, breeding grounds, processing plants, and has its own logistics and warehousing system. In addition, Hailufeng Company has strong scientific research capabilities.

Under this model, as long as Hailufeng Company does not encounter any major problems, it will definitely expand to a variety of agricultural products, agricultural and sideline products, and deep-processed products.

Although the three major e-commerce platforms all take the approach of being large and comprehensive, agricultural products still account for a large proportion of sales on their platforms.

Among them, Pinxixi has the largest share, with agricultural product sales accounting for about 40%, almost half of the market.

The combined sales of agricultural products of Tao.com and Mao.com are not small.

On the contrary, JD.com’s agricultural product sales account for the lowest proportion, even lower than the Yinfo platform.

Therefore, the threat posed by the Hailufeng Specialty Store APP to the three major e-commerce platforms is much greater than imagined.

But they have no way to deal with Hailufeng Company. Although these platforms can decide the life and death of ordinary agricultural product production companies and online stores, they really don’t have much to do when facing Hailufeng Company.

As for reconciliation, it is basically useless.

Even if a settlement is reached, Hailufeng Company will still develop. It is impossible for it to close the APP, and it will not enter the three major e-commerce platforms again.

After all, the previous flow restrictions and bans destroyed the trust basis for the peaceful coexistence of the two sides. Jiang Miao has always been wary of these Internet companies, and naturally would not hand over the lifeblood of the company to these e-commerce platforms and other Internet companies.

No matter how huge the traffic of these platforms is, it is meaningless traffic for Hailufeng Company.

Jiang Miao has never had a very positive view on Internet companies. These big Internet companies are all good at taking advantage of others. None of them is trustworthy. Even if they cooperate with each other, they have to be wary of the possibility of the other party suddenly stabbing them in the back.

After all, several foreign Internet companies are powerful enough to ban certain bigwigs.

Although these Internet giants will most likely not dare to directly block Jiang Miao’s social media accounts after he becomes an academician next year, he has not taken it lightly.

He has left special forum system interfaces on the Hailufeng store APP, Hailufeng procurement network, and Hailufeng company official website, and can create professional social forums at any time through new plug-ins.

Among them, the built-in social system of Hailufeng Procurement Network is actually already in use.

Since October, Hailufeng Procurement Network has been conducting public testing.

At present, this procurement network is mainly a professional software used by Hailufeng Company to launch procurement projects, including the procurement of office supplies, furniture and electrical appliances, daily necessities, packaging materials, disposable tableware, pesticides and fertilizers, agricultural machinery and equipment, engineering equipment, and various industrial supporting equipment.

Those companies that had previously cooperated with Hailufeng Company joined the procurement network almost immediately, and companies that had not cooperated before also joined in.

As of Double Eleven, there are more than 3000 companies on the procurement network, and the number is still increasing rapidly.

Domestic business has not been doing well in recent years. Even with the continuous stimulus from Egyptian catfish meal and Senzu soybeans this year, the economy has only a little bit of vitality. The fundamental reason is that people's income is not high, resulting in insufficient domestic demand.

Which company would not want to have a relationship with a partner like Hailufeng that is so willing to pay?

Even small express boxes, disposable tableware, and office supplies, once the purchasing scale is expanded to hundreds of thousands or millions, it will become a big business.

Of course, Hailufeng Company also has very strict control over its suppliers. In addition to sending people to the factory to inspect, it also conducts comprehensive inspections on the supplied products.

Especially for things that come into contact with food, or materials that may involve product quality or production safety, long-term follow-up will be carried out to prevent suppliers from being perfunctory or making up the numbers.

On the procurement website, there are functional sections similar to WeChat groups and Tieba forums, and they are currently quite active.

In fact, after seeing Hailufeng Procurement Network, the three major e-commerce platforms became more and more worried.

It is no wonder that the three major e-commerce platforms would have such fantasies. The main reason is that this procurement network has already involved many products. If Hailufeng Company is willing, it can use the procurement channels formed by the procurement network at any time to quickly purchase a large number of furniture, electrical appliances, office supplies, daily necessities, and various mechanical equipment, and then sell them on the Hailufeng specialty store APP.

In this way, the Hailufeng Store APP can be transformed from a website specializing in selling agricultural products to a full-service shopping website.

However, Jiang Miao has no such idea for the time being. The main reason is that Hailufeng Company has been experiencing some indigestion due to its rapid expansion in the past year. In order to avoid taking too big a step and causing trouble, he chooses to continue to delve deeper into agricultural products and derivative industries.

After all, Hailufeng Company does not have related industries such as electrical appliances, machinery, and daily necessities. If it gets involved in too many industries at once, it will not be able to manage them all, and product quality problems will most likely arise. This is obviously not the result that Jiang Miao wants to see.

However, the three major e-commerce platforms, which have already felt the threat from Hailufeng Company, have finally behaved themselves for once and no longer used the various routines and mindless operations of previous years.

However, the three major e-commerce platforms found that there was no significant surge in sales during this year’s Double Eleven, and the sales remained similar to the previous two years, with a lukewarm pace.

After a series of questionnaires, these e-commerce platforms finally realized the problem. It was their own fault. Having been deceived by e-commerce platforms many times, many consumers no longer trusted them. Even if they changed their strategies, they would not be able to change the deeply rooted views of the people.

As for the Double Eleven Hailufeng specialty store APP, there was no joining in the fun, because the specialty store's activity schedule was arranged according to traditional festivals and important holidays.

Including the Spring Festival, Women's Day, Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day and New Year's Day, collectively known as the Eight Festivals. E-commerce festivals such as Double Eleven and June 18 are not included.

The main reason for not joining is that there is no need.

Consumers’ enthusiasm for e-commerce festivals such as Double Eleven and June 18 has long been exhausted, so it is better to focus on traditional festivals.

Just the day after Double Eleven.

A purchasing contract was released on the Hailufeng Procurement Website.

A young boss who had just inherited a family business that made ceramic jars in Jingdezhen was bored and looking through all kinds of information on the Internet. Faced with more than a hundred employees who were hungry for food in the factory, he was also very troubled for a while.

He picked up the coffee and took a sip to refresh himself, then looked at the information again. Suddenly, he saw a message pop up on the Hailufeng Procurement Network that he had downloaded before.

He casually clicked on the Hailufeng Procurement Network, and his originally careless gaze was suddenly attracted.

[Purchase Item: Special Ceramic Box Inner Tank…]

After reading the requirements, he quickly made the call.

"Hey, Lao Huang, you and Dafeng come to my office."

"Office? I'll be there soon."

Ten minutes later.

Old Huang, who came in a hurry, and a middle-aged man wearing glasses knocked on the door and came in together.

Old Huang asked curiously, "Boss, what's the matter?"

"You and Dafeng should take a look at these parameter requirements and see if our factory can produce them."

Old Huang took the document he had just printed out, and Dafeng also came over. The two of them looked at it for seven or eight minutes. Dafeng raised his glasses and said, "Boss, if there are no other requirements, we can meet this parameter. Although we don't have the technology to produce electrical ceramics, the other party's requirements are not high, and ordinary ceramics can meet their needs."

"I agree with Dafeng's opinion, but boss, why do you want to produce this thing?" Lao Huang expressed his doubts.

Tan Gaoming explained, "I just saw that Hailufeng Company is bidding for 5000 ceramic liners with good insulation. The product parameter requirements you saw are the parameter requirements of the ceramic liners." Old Huang patted the documents in his hand and said, "This thing is a cubic cylinder body, which requires a special mold. The internal volume is one cubic meter. If 5000 pieces are produced, the cost of each one is about 200-300 yuan."

"Lao Huang, Dafeng, you are aware of the company's situation. We need to win this contract. You should make samples as soon as possible. You should make several different samples. Hailufeng Company purchased so many ceramic liners. They may be used to ferment food. You should take these into consideration."

Hearing this, Lao Huang nodded and said, "No problem, I will take someone to make samples right away, and the samples will be ready in about a week."

"Okay, please."

"Leave it to us!" Dafeng also replied.

After discussing the sample production work with the two technicians, Tan Gaoming made a preliminary bid through the Hailufeng Procurement Network, and then asked the procurement network's exclusive customer service staff to confirm the sample situation and subsequent arrangements.

Seven days later.

Tan Gaoming and Lu Dafeng personally escorted 10 samples to Gongping Town, Haifeng County, Shanmei City.

The dairy farms of Fair Township are in the mountainous interior to the west.

Tan Gaoming and Lu Dafeng, who were escorting the samples on behalf of Tan's Ceramic Products Co., Ltd., immediately saw a factory area next to the dairy farm with a sign that read "Hailufeng Company Gongping Town Bioenergy Experimental Base".

Tan Gaoming got out of the Land Rover and trotted to the door.

The security guard at the door immediately became alert.

"Hello, I'm the owner of Tan's Ceramics. I've made an appointment to come here today to deliver samples."

The security guard picked up the contact list and took a look. Sure enough, he found an appointment for a visit from Tan's Ceramics. He picked up his phone and called the corresponding buyer, communicated with him, and then called the person in charge of the base.

After a while, the head of the base, Li Guoguang, brought people out.

"Hello! Boss Tan! I am Li Guoguang, the deputy manager of this base."

"Hello! Manager Li."

The two sides talked for more than ten minutes, and the 10 samples had been transported to the temporary warehouse at the base.

In order to win this cooperation, Tan Gaoming did not go back, but planned to stay in Gongping Town for a while. He would leave only after the sample testing was completed and the results were settled.

In the afternoon, Li Guoguang arranged a dozen technicians to start assembling parts.

The ceramic liner was placed upside down on a wooden frame. A technician quickly applied flame-retardant and thermal-insulating foam glue, then used a crane to lift a plastic shell and put it on the ceramic liner.

Put the 10 ceramic inner pots into the plastic shell one by one.

At the same time, a temporary number of the ceramic liner is affixed to the plastic shell. This number is given by Tan Ceramics and is mainly used to identify the sample model.

The next day, the plastic shell and the ceramic liner were firmly stuck together, and the container was turned over using a crane and human assistance.

Then install the graphite plate anode, manganese monoxide cathode, temperature sensor and other accessories.

Soon, these assembled microbial fuel cell boxes were placed on a cart and sent to a closed fuel filling workshop. Workers wearing protective clothing and protective helmets injected the diluted cow dung solution (90% water) into the ceramic inner tank.

Then they pulled the container into the next workshop, where workers used large syringes to inject a specific proportion of soy genistein into the cow dung solution.

We came to the third workshop with a higher isolation level. This was the workshop where special Gram-negative bacteria and electric bacteria were planted. Workers quickly planted the bacteria into the cow dung solution.

Finally, the 10 containers were pulled into a factory building covering an area of ​​10 acres and with a total of 6 floors.

The forklift placed the microbial fuel cell box in the pre-planned slot. The electrician quickly connected the wires and began to adjust the temperature, humidity, light intensity, and air oxygen content in the room.

Every 100 battery boxes form a room, and there are 1 rooms on the first floor.

There are 5 rooms on the 50th floor, which can accommodate 5000 battery boxes.

The 6th floor houses the substation equipment, air separation equipment, lead-carbon battery storage room, central air-conditioning system, and control center.

Each battery room is an independent room. Except for the initial installation of the battery box, it will be sealed in the future. Unless the battery box is scrapped, it will basically not be moved.

After each power generation is completed, the cow dung solution in these battery boxes will be pumped directly from the battery boxes to the tank truck outside through the dung pumping equipment, and then sent to a biogas fermentation plant four kilometers away for fermentation.

As the temperature, humidity, light intensity and oxygen concentration reach the predetermined values.

After 16 hours, the bacteria began to reach a stable peak in power generation, with each battery box generating 340 to 360 watts of power.

Li Guoguang, who was at the control center on the fifth floor, looked at the values ​​on the power monitoring equipment and showed a sense of relief on his face: "Huh, this is a good start."

Power engineer Han Xiyuan was carefully checking the values. Currently, the electricity generated by these experimental microbial fuel cell boxes has not yet been networked, but is first input into the lead-carbon battery room for temporary storage.

The power plant is designed to generate electricity from 5000 battery boxes at the same time, with a maximum power generation capacity of 1750 kilowatts and a maximum annual power generation of 1533 million kilowatt-hours.

If it is a thermal power plant, the power generation capacity and power generation are not even backward production capacity, but are obsolete production capacity.

However, microbial fuel cells are a sustainable and environmentally friendly power generation technology. The fuel they consume is the more than 200 tons of fresh cow dung produced every day by the dairy farm next door.

This amount of electricity is not much, but it is not a small amount either.

After all, the total electricity consumption of Shanmei City last year was only 80 billion kWh, and 1500 million kWh is almost one-fifth of it.

However, Hailufeng Company has no intention of selling electricity. Instead, it plans to use it in its own factories, employee dormitories, farms, and breeding farms.

This amount of electricity is enough to maintain the power supply for the entire Gongping Town’s dairy farms, dairy processing plants, durian plantations, durian processing plants, cow dung comprehensive utilization plants and staff dormitories.

After half a month of experimentation.

During this period, Jiang Miao came over secretly for an inspection. He looked at the conditions of the ceramic liner, graphite plate, and manganese monoxide plate and had a clear idea of ​​what was going on.

During this period, several other ceramic companies came to deliver samples.

However, these companies did not attach as much importance to it as Tan's Ceramics, and there were only one or two samples.

In the end, it was Jiang Miao who made the final decision and asked Li Guoguang to order the No. 4 sample liner produced by Tan Ceramics. The price of each ceramic liner was 500 yuan.

The moment he signed the contract, Tan Gaoming breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing Tan Gaoming in a daze, Li Guoguang coughed slightly: "Ahem... Boss Tan, please give birth as soon as possible!"

"Okay, no problem." Tan Gaoming's face was full of excitement.

However, Li Guoguang was not smiling: "Let me be frank. Quality must be guaranteed. If a large number of substandard products appear, then you will never be able to enter our supply chain again."

Tan Gaoming immediately put away his smile and assured like a chick pecking at rice, "Yes, yes... I will personally supervise and ensure that your company's order is completed on time and with quality."

This order is too important. For a small ceramic factory like Tan's Ceramics, in the current environment, this 250 million order can at least allow the factory to operate continuously for two months.

"Work hard, our company will need a lot of these ceramic liners in the future."

"Thank you Manager Li for your advice." Tan Gaoming's inner excitement became increasingly difficult to suppress.

Many times, a temporary order is nothing. If it is a long-term order, it is a truly high-value order.

This is very important because long-term orders can ensure long-term stable production of the factory.

(End of this chapter)