207. Large order
By the end of this year, a fast-leg food ordering software became popular on mobile phones. Fast-leg food has begun to set up its own branches in metropolitan cities across the country, recruiting food delivery staff and restaurant franchise. Online service has also truly entered the forefront, and has entered the profit stage from pure investment.
By this time, Liu Lu and his wife could no longer stay in the provincial capital. They handed over the work at hand to their carefully trained subordinates, brought some capable personnel, and moved them to the headquarters of the capital. The fast legs of the provincial capital also became the first branch under the headquarters.
The fast legs of Beijing seem to look like a big company, and the office space occupies a full four floors.
From then on, the fast legs were divided into three parts. Liu Lu was responsible for the offline part, setting up branches across the country, organizing franchisees and franchisees. Liu Jianjun was still responsible for education, but no longer engaged in offline training camps for playing edge balls, but instead organized various online fee training. From the middle school entrance examination, college entrance examination to the grade exam, TOEFL, in the future, professional skills training, contacting famous teachers in all aspects, and producing educational class videos. Zhou Qi continued to be responsible for software programming, design and network maintenance.
The three of them are responsible for a major project, including public relations, marketing, technology, manpower, finance, etc., and they all have their own system, which is called the Big Three.
Zhou Dalin was personally responsible for the coordination of the three aspects. He was in charge of the Beijing headquarters, recruited experienced management personnel, and formed a capable management team to assist him in coordinating the work of the three departments.
Originally, he planned to hand over this job over the years to Liu Lu. The prestige she has established over the years is enough to be competent for this job. However, Liu Lu has never found a suitable person to replace her and can never make any effort.
In fact, Liu Lu has been working under Zhou Dalin's guidance. She is always a little unconfident when facing an extraordinary and forward-looking boss. But as long as Zhou Dalin force her to force her to the position of boss, she is not unable to do a good job.
However, Cheng Xiao's ignorance made him give up his plan to be idle.
Before Liu Lulin went to the capital, she went to Linshui and met Cheng Xiao.
Cheng Xiao hasn't returned to the provincial capital for so long. She guessed that she might have had a conflict with Zhou Dalin. Zhou Dalin was also a little abnormal and did not return to Linshui to find Cheng Xiao.
According to Zhou Dalin's previous personality, he should have returned to Linshui, so he coaxed Cheng Xiao and took her back. But he refused to say that he was busy with work and had no time. Cheng Xiao helped her father run a factory, but he was also busy and couldn't get rid of it.
This certainly has something to do with Zhou Dalin's busy work. However, it is still the same as in the past. He does not do specific work, but just makes an idea and points a direction. He does not have to stay in the headquarters in the capital every day and does not look for Cheng Xiao.
On the phone, Cheng Xiao didn't admit to having a conflict with Zhou Dalin. She was still worried. Before going to the capital, she drove to find Cheng Xiao.
Cheng Xiao is really busy.
In mid-July, shortly after Meng Qingshui fell ill and asked for leave, a large chemical group company in the northwest collectively purchased a batch of large-scale corrosion-resistant water ring vacuum equipment. It was bidding in China and sent an invitation letter to the Linshui Vacuum Pump Factory.
Judging from the invitation description, the number of bidding equipment in this batch is close to 2,000, and they are all large-sized equipment.
This is a large order of more than 200 million! If this order can be taken down, the vacuum pump factory will not accept other orders for a year and will not have to worry about food and drink.
There are only a handful of manufacturers in the country who can accept such large orders, and they can barely be considered one. Of course, relying on their current production capacity, they may not be able to do so many things in three years.
However, relying on the advantages of the national pump industry capital, they have no problem combining small companies in surrounding spare parts manufacturing to produce spare parts for all equipment.
With equipment and accessories, only assembly is left. There are many idle workers, so they organize these workers and double the assembly workshop, and assembly is no problem. Anyway, some of them are idle workshops, so they are not afraid of no place to expand.
This is an advantage that other domestic vacuum pump companies cannot achieve. In addition, Linshui Vacuum, a well-known brand that was once the leader of the vacuum industry in the country, can even shake others.
Although the water vacuum has changed hands for a long time and is no longer the same water vacuum, how many people in China know about it? Otherwise, they would send them a tender invitation letter.
At this time, we can see that the role of the Linshui Vacuum Signature has come. Without it, the factory now has no qualifications to accept large orders.
Lao Cheng and Zhao Shihao took action personally and brought Zhu Erjun, deputy marketing manager, and relevant technical personnel to the Northwest.
It was Zhao Shihao's idea to not bring Wu Qinglin to the marketing manager.
This kind of bidding meeting requires a bid. Even if you prepare the bid at home according to the requirements of the person's prior explanation, and when you arrive at the bidding site, the bidding documents still need to be constantly modified according to the different situations shown by the companies coming to bid, and the temporary changes of the bidding company, so as to achieve the goal of winning the bid. Wu Qinglin has never participated in such a large bidding meeting. Without this experience, it is better to bring the experienced Zhu Erjun to make temporary decisions on the spot.
In that era, in addition to the water-line vacuum pump factory, there were not many large vacuum pump factories across the country. At the bidding meeting, only five companies came, one of which was Simon Company, and the team led by Vice President Liu.
When Zhao Shihao saw Vice President Liu, he was guarding Lao Cheng and laughed at him and said, "What are you here to do? You don't even have the factory, do you have the production capacity?"
Vice President Liu was gentle and said lightly: "Simon is a world-renowned manufacturing group company. It has its own production bases in more than a dozen countries in the world. We have two large pump bases in Asia. I laughed at our production capacity, Manager Zhao, you are too ignorant."
Zhao Shihao smiled and said, "You brought the things produced in other countries to us to sell. That set of equipment is not allowed to be sold for one or more than one hundred million yuan? Which sucker is willing to buy your things that are more than ten times more expensive?"
Manager Liu always smiled and listened patiently to him, then said: "That's not necessarily true. Although our products are more expensive, we have stable quality assurance. Manager Zhao, you should know that when there are problems with the equipment in use and cannot work, the losses caused to customers may not be saved by ten sets of equipment. In this regard, we have advantages that you cannot reach."
"Is that?" Zhao Shihao said unnaturally, "You are just a small office and an agency. Don't say so well, okay? What about you, Manager Simon III, why didn't you see it?"
Vice President Liu replied to him: "I can just come on behalf of General Manager Simon III, and our boss does not need to attend in person."
It turns out that this kind of transaction with over 100 million yuan is only a small deal for Simon's company.
The two of them verbally and said a few words in a sarcasm, and then they parted in dissatisfaction.
The first round of bidding was over. Zhu Erjun judged that their prices were high based on the coming manufacturers. He quickly suggested that Lao Cheng and Zhao Shihao change the price and then bid.
Lao Cheng was surprised that other manufacturers did not disclose the bid price. How did he know that the price was high?
Zhu Erjun explained: "I have been in this market for more than ten years. I have dealt with them countless times. How can I not know what the situation is like? Based on this order, I guess they can guess their quotations."
Zhao Shihao continued to talk to Lao Cheng, "This is the benefit of having experience. If we don't bring Lao Zhu to come this time, Wu Qinglin, we may have won the first round."
Lao Cheng agreed with his statement in his heart.
Sure enough, in the first round, only two companies were left behind by the bidder, and the rest were eliminated. Among the companies left behind, there was a water vacuum pump factory. It was indeed because the prices they quoted were within the acceptable range of the other party. If they followed the quotes they drafted at home, they would be eliminated.
Simon Company is naturally within the scope of being eliminated.
When the bidder held a reception banquet, Zhao Shihao did not forget to find Vice President Liu again to beat him up.
"Hey, the price is high and the quality is good, why didn't you win the bid?"
Vice President Liu was not vague and said with disdain, "There are many horses in a thousand miles, but the Bole is not often there. What's so strange about this? Besides, this kind of small business is still invisible to our Simon Company. Our boss sent us here, not entirely to do business, but mainly to make friends with colleagues and be familiar with domestic trading procedures. If we don't come, how can we know Manager Zhao, you?"
Still neither humble nor arrogant.
Afterwards, Lao Cheng asked Zhao Shihao: "Why are you always unable to get along with that Vice President Liu?"
Zhao Shihao said with confidence: "Their Simon Company is right under our noses, competing for resources and talents with us. If I don't get along with him, who can't get along with?"
Although Lao Cheng thought Zhao Shihao was doing a bit too much, the other party was indeed their main competitor, so he didn't talk about Zhao Shihao anymore.
He would never dream of it that Zhao Shihao and Vice President Liu deliberately played a show for him, and a huge crisis was waiting for him behind.
The second round of bidding is the form of a meeting.
The two bidding companies and bidding companies both sat down and negotiated separately. Of course, the bidding companies still negotiated separately one by one.
The prices quoted by both companies are similar, so they can only compete in some details. Such as the amount of advance payment, delivery batch and delivery time, payment method, warranty duration, etc.
Finally, after arduous negotiations, the vacuum pump factory won the order with a 15% advance payment, delivered a batch of goods every quarter within one year, and had a warranty of one and a half years.
Then, the contract signing stage entered. The two parties discussed item by item around the contract terms. In the end, it took one month. The two parties signed the final contract and reported to the notary office to send someone to supervise, completing the contract signing ceremony.
The contract was signed, but the other party paid too little advance payment, and even the production cost was not enough. Lao Cheng had to use all the funds he could take out to purchase production raw materials.
These problems require financial solutions to where to withdraw money, how to repay the funds from the supplier, and so on.
Chapter completed!