Reinventing the Millennium

Quick onboarding, staff dormitories, and group travel.

Lin Cheng graduated from graduate school and joined Tesco in a hurry. The first stop was to inspect Kunshan No. 1 warehouse with Tesco leaders.

The Kunshan Warehousing Center was not the first to start construction, but it was built by a team of warehousing experts from Amazon as a template for Tesco's subsequent construction.

Lin Cheng studied business administration, but after seeing Kunshan Warehouse No. 1 and the assembly line and semi-automation of the warehousing center, he suddenly had an intuitive understanding of words such as "warehousing" and "supply chain."

However, the Kunshan Warehouse is a place where Tesco's senior executives often come. It was not the focus of this trip and was just a quick tour.

Lin Cheng could only vaguely feel the characteristics of "advanced", "large space" and "lots of goods".

In addition, he just noticed that Mr. Fang and the people around him were always communicating.

After having a simple meal in the evening, we took a flight to Yangcheng. When we got there, we had to continue driving to Mayong.

Lin Cheng's position is relatively far away from Mr. Fang, but he is dizzy now. He feels that observation and adaptation at this distance is beneficial to the relationship, and it also gives him time to get familiar with his future colleagues.

He noticed that the two people sitting next to him were the men who he saw following Mr. Fang in the president's office yesterday. They took the initiative to show their kindness and asked about each other's work.

"I am Ahu, and he is Dagang. I am responsible for Mr. Fang's safety." The man who called himself Ahu introduced himself quite proudly.

Lin Cheng chatted a few words and got to know the person in the front seat. He was surprised to get a similar response.

"Chen Zhao, Shi Bin, the driver, responsible for Mr. Fang's safety." Chen Zhao, who was in the front seat, answered.

Ahu and others had just come from the United States and had just joined the job. They were not familiar with the situation. After hearing this, they asked: "Is your driver also responsible for Mr. Fang's safety?"

Chen Zhao said "hmm" and said, "I retired in the first half of the year. What about the jobs recommended by the district?"

Ahu's throat was stuck, and he was stunned for about ten seconds before he answered: "We, um, we just retired, and we were introduced."

He shrank back angrily.

Lin Cheng was a little confused about the situation. He was retiring and retiring. Is it so complicated around Mr. Fang? Moreover, it seems that these four people are not the only ones responsible for security. There are also people with similar temperaments sitting in the two rows behind.

When e-commerce inspects its own warehouse construction, does the security level need to be very high?

Lin Cheng had doubts in his heart.

But this doubt was destined to remain unanswered. Instead, during supper time after the plane landed, he was called over to have dinner together and heard some experience analysis about the Kunshan warehouse.

"Liu Qiangdong, Mr. Liu." Fang Zhuo introduced the senior executive who was about to speak, and then introduced to the senior executives, "Lin Cheng, a management trainee who is about to go to the grassroots level."

Even Liu Qiangdong, as he has been at Tesco for a long time, has heard about many of Mr. Fang's habits. One of them is that he likes to send people he has worked with to other departments, such as secretaries and assistants.

Lin Cheng nodded friendly yet shyly.

Liu Qiangdong nodded in response and continued to talk about his feelings about the Kunshan warehouse: "Amazon's chaotic inventory management system is still very good. It is flexible and convenient, and reduces the total planning amount of work. After these two months of observation, I don’t think this warehousing system needs too many localized adjustments.”

"The most important thing in warehousing now is the return and exchange system for purchased products, because it involves communication with the brand."

"In June and July, a lot of overtime tasks came from this aspect."

Liu Qiangdong took a sip of water and stopped to listen for any reaction.

He keenly noticed the confusion on the face of the new young man, and smiled: "Lin Cheng, what do you want to ask? You will be rotated to different departments, and sooner or later you will also get the warehousing department."

Lin Cheng was a little embarrassed: "I have never heard of this 'chaotic inventory management system'. It sounds very... very chaotic."

"The foreigners called it this way, so we just translated it literally, or it can be called a random storage system." Liu Qiangdong replied, "It is different from ordinary fixed location inventory."

Lin Chengchi asked: "What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two storage systems?"

"Theoretical research is not our business, and foreign experts, including foreign experts, did not do much analysis. On one point, it has been proven in Amazon's practice that the error rate is much lower than that of ordinary fixed inventory systems." Liu Qiangdong said seriously, "Practice proves that True knowledge, we also compare it with the domestic situation, and this is indeed the case.”

Fang Zhuo said: "So, this is something that Tesco can use directly, but our current cargo throughput is not large enough. This field cannot be rigid. Our users and products are different from Amazon's. We should do more research." The more you study, the deeper your attainments are, the more invisible competitiveness you can form in Tesco.”

"I hope that Tesco's logistics can serve as an important competitiveness in our domestic e-commerce, and warehousing support is very important."

Everyone nodded.

Liu Qiangdong ate and chatted over late-night snacks again. Compared to working for his own company before, although he now lacks the spirit of ownership in Tesco, he also has the joy of spending a large budget.

He believes that this B2C asset-heavy model will definitely gain sufficient late-mover advantages and will also establish a strong moat in the e-commerce field.

Once the seven first-level warehousing centers planned to be built by E-commerce are completed, the impact it will bring is by no means a simple 1+1 effect.

Liu Qiangdong is confident in the development of Tesco and particularly likes the Double Eleven activity plan set by Mr. Fang.

Double Eleven, Double Eleven, this is much better than the June 18th that Mr. Ma suggested to Mr. Ma.

…

As Fang Zhuo led the Yiguo senior management team on an inspection trip to the warehouse construction, the Huang family's efforts to make good friends with trendy merchants finally received positive feedback. If nothing else, Mr. Dahuang will soon be able to cooperate with the trendy merchants. Lawyers communicate.

Even more optimistic estimates suggest that things are expected to be settled this time.

However, it still takes time.

In mid-August, Mr. Dahuang met with his lawyer.

The first sentence he could communicate with the outside world was not to ask about himself, but to ask about his opponents before he lost contact.

"How is Tesco?"

The lawyer was stunned. Fortunately, he also kept paying attention to information and gossip. Although the rumored gangster suddenly disappeared from public view, Tesco's imminent moves did not escape his eyes.

"E-commerce is teaming up with Suning and others to organize a promotional event, which may generate a lot of momentum," the lawyer said truthfully.

Mr. Dahuang pondered, it seemed okay to be united like this.

The lawyer added: "Tesco is contacting its suppliers, and their attitude has become somewhat relaxed, including those who had previously cut off supply to Tesco. In particular, TV companies have a close relationship with Tesco."

Mr. Dahuang nodded slightly. This was within his expectation and within the company's tolerance. It was impossible for suppliers to suddenly get rid of their dependence on channels.

The lawyer thought about it carefully and said, "There seems to be nothing else."

Mr. Dahuang lamented: "The market advantage is not easy to be wiped out. Each of our chain stores is the most solid foundation. There are not many cards it can play and the threats are limited."

After asking like this, he felt confident, and then he started to talk about his own affairs.

This investigation involves past loans. Judging from the current situation, the future is not so bleak.

As long as you go out on your own, the company can get back on its feet.