Chapter 268 Undercurrent surging
"TMD, traitor!"
"Traitor! Traitor!"
On the way the boss came over, Zhou Chen went to report again. He roughly found out which of the domestic secondary protection welding machines were involved in this siege. He couldn't help but curse. His angry heart was burning in his chest, and he wanted to pick up the machine gun and kill these people.
The bosses of several domestic secondary welding machine manufacturers all suddenly lost their jobs.
The boss's secretary in the secretary's office opposite heard Mr. Zhou slamming the table and swearing, and he could hear the content clearly.
Who betrayed the country?
Does Mr. Zhou watch international news?
Since the last time the boss got angry due to the corruption incident of Dwan Company, this time it is Mr. Zhou’s turn again.
At this time, Zhou Chen lit up a cigarette and took a deep puff. He rarely smoked. His boss was sensitive to the smell of cigarettes, so he never dared to smoke in front of his boss.
Generally speaking, Zhou Chen would let the people below solve the problems themselves, and it was not his turn to take part in the battle.
Only problems that cannot be solved below will be reported to him. If the problem is pushed to his level, then the problem is more serious.
Zhou Chen must report things that he cannot decide on, problems that cannot be solved, or things that are serious, to his boss.
He waited for about twenty minutes and heard footsteps outside the office. It must be that the boss was back. He walked out of the office and took a look at the boss's office. It was the boss who had returned from the headquarters base and was drinking tea.
Zhou Chen suppressed his anger, calmed down, knocked on the door, and then walked into the boss's office.
"Boss, these bastards want to intercept our company from all upstream supply chain links so that we can't produce normally."
Mu Yang glanced at Zhou Chen who was very angry, put down the tea cup, and said in a deep voice: "Let's have a meeting first, and let's find out more about it and then take a look."
After finishing speaking, the two went to the small conference room on the fourth floor.
In the conference room, the purchasing manager Duan Menghui, the deputy manager and two purchasing engineers were all there.
Mu Yang just sat down and said to Duan Menghui, "Tell me briefly about the situation."
Duan Menghui said slowly: "Yes, boss, we have to start talking about this a week ago.
In order to reduce the procurement risk, we purchase from three domestic IGBT arc welding inverter manufacturers. Now when we sign a new contract, the orders are ordered three months in advance. Today is February 20th, and the goods should be delivered in April.
Plan to order in May.
But now, the April goods should have been shipped a few days ago, but the manufacturer, Shenzhen Yulong Technology Company, has been unable to deliver the goods. After we asked, they said they were out of stock and asked us to wait. If it is just a supplier
, it is normal for the delivery to be delivered a few days later.
However, the other two suppliers, Sioux City Orui Electrical and Dwanboko Welding Electrical, are in the same situation. They cannot deliver goods and are unwilling to sign a new contract. They say that their production capacity is limited and they are unwilling to supply us anymore."
Duan Menghui's tone was a little helpless, and at the end, there was a hint of anger.
"Suddenly such a situation happened, and the buyer reported it to me. I called and asked personally, and the boss of the other party also got the same result. He said that if the goods could not be delivered, their company was willing to pay liquidated damages in accordance with the contract!
They didn't say it sooner or later. It wasn't until the delivery was about to be delivered that we pressed and said it was out of stock. Moreover, the three companies were in the same situation. I thought it was a trap for us to jump into. They didn't care about liquidated damages at all.
Our company's goods in April totaled 60,000 units, and the contract order value was about 6 million yuan. We paid 30% of the contract price as an advance payment, and after receiving the goods, we paid 65% and 5% as a warranty deposit.
The liquidated damages are double the advance payment, which is 1.8 million yuan. From the other party’s tone, these three suppliers don’t care at all about the total liquidated damages of 1.8 million yuan.”
“Given the size of their company, the average loss per company is 600,000 yuan, which is not a small amount;
For us, it is even more serious. If the goods are out of stock, we will lose the sales of 60,000 second-guaranteed welding machines, with a total value of about 1 billion yuan. In comparison, their losses pale into insignificance.
We then consulted other IGBT arc welding inverter manufacturers, and there were many reasons for not accepting orders, either because of production capacity issues or because they could not meet our requirements.
So, I sensed a conspiracy and the problem was serious, so I mentioned it to Mr. Zhou."
Duan Menghui continued, “When something like this happened, I called the manufacturer’s boss many times to question him, but the result was the same.
Mr. Zhou asked us to check the equity composition of the other company. After two days of investigation, we found that in the past month, these manufacturers have undergone industrial and commercial changes and added new shareholders, and these new shareholders are our competitors, such as Shenzhen Yulong
A new shareholder of Technology is Tangshan Songshang Duping, which holds 30% of the shares; Sucheng Orui Electric, OTC, holds 25% of the shares... The IGBT arc welding inverter manufacturers we can purchase all have these secondary protection welding machines.
Manufacturers hold shares, including domestic secondary welding machine manufacturers.
Mr. Zhou said, it’s obvious that these bastards want to surround us and directly cut off our company’s procurement chain so that we can’t normally produce secondary welding machines!”
Duan Menghui said very angrily. He was in a hurry now and couldn't purchase anything.
As a middle-level leader of the company, he received hundreds of thousands of yuan in year-end bonuses. He had a great sense of belonging to the company, and he also realized that this was no small matter. If he was messed with by these bastards, he might lose his year-end bonus this year.
The "bastards" in Duan Menghui and Zhou Chen's mouth now refer to the domestic and foreign secondary protection welding machine manufacturers that participated in this encirclement and suppression. They are also the welding machine manufacturers most affected by the Xinghai Group. Those small company secondary security welding machine manufacturers,
There is no qualification to join the encirclement and suppression team.
Xinghai Group's secondary protection welding machines, due to low spatter rate, simple use, good welding appearance, low cost and other reasons, these six secondary protection welding equipment are like dropping a stone in a calm lake, causing ripples and vibrations in the industry
.
It was launched in May last year and has had a very big impact on domestic and foreign secondary welding machine manufacturers since June.
For example, Tangshan Songshang, Lincoln, ESAB and other international secondary welding machine brands, in January this year, sales were less than one-third of the same period last year.
After being silent for nearly half a year, these international secondary welding machine manufacturers had no choice but to unite to fight against Xinghai Group.
The Xinghai Group may have a big reputation and attract attention. When it first enters the world, it will inevitably be "taught" by various sects, and even wants to kick it out, which will eventually lead to "beatings".
Now the Xinghai Group is armed with peerless martial arts, facing countless enemies with only two fists.
Whether we can win or not, from the current point of view, these enemies have used dirty tricks, and the Xinghai Group is somewhat dangerous.
When Mu Yang heard Duan Menghui's words, he felt that this conspiracy was deep. What surprised him was that the bosses of these IGBT arc welding inverter manufacturers actually agreed to the other party's investment and were willing to lose the big customer of Xinghai Group.
Mu Yang thought for a moment and realized that these bastards were their old customers. These suppliers trusted them more or had reached some kind of agreement before they were willing to invest.
The market value of these IGBT arc welding inverter companies is not large. Compared with the losses of these competitors, it is worth taking a gamble. Even if they lose, their losses will not be large.
If Xinghai Group runs out of stock, it will lose one billion yuan in sales a month and its gross profit will be hundreds of millions of yuan.
These hundreds of millions of yuan in gross profit will be distributed to competitors, who will use these hundreds of millions of yuan to acquire all IGBT arc welding inverter manufacturers twice, thereby controlling the entire IGBT arc welding inverter market.
Therefore, it is worthwhile for them to do this. As long as they can make Xinghai Group out of stock for more than half a month, they will make a profit.
They played this game of chess very wisely, and Mu Yang had to admire these bastards.
As for those domestic secondary welding machine manufacturers, they were forced to not participate, and their revenue was also hit by Xinghai Group.
But now, Mu Yang doesn't care about these domestic secondary welding machine manufacturers. Since this is how he plays, he will play with them.
Mu Yang wanted to hear everyone's opinions: "Mr. Zhou, can you estimate how much impact the stockout will have on us?"
Zhou Chen said puzzledly: "We used to purchase relatively large quantities. Based on the current inventory of 50,000 units, we can still supply normally for one month.
But after a month, it was out of stock.
If we run out of goods after this month, the impact will definitely be huge. Mr. Yang probably won’t dare to take the order, for fear that he won’t be able to deliver the goods.
These bastards probably also know that as long as we cut off our monthly supply, there will be no more of our second-guaranteed welding machines on the market. They took the opportunity to occupy the original market and recover some of their losses. This siege can be considered a small victory.
If we are out of stock for a few months, then our goods will not be on the market for several months, and the advantages we have established in advance will be gone. We will suffer huge losses, and other production lines will have to be suspended. Not only will we lose sales, we will also lose sales.
The monthly expenses alone are quite a lot.”
Duan Menghui sighed and said: "Hey, it seems that we can only produce it ourselves, but we don't have a few months to do it, and we don't have the technology."
Mu Yang nodded. There are probably three ways to solve this problem.
The first is to directly acquire IGBT arc welding inverter manufacturers, but it is estimated that they cannot be acquired at present;
The second is to acquire a rival company, which is equivalent to controlling an IGBT arc welding inverter. But Muyang does not want to do this kind of thing. The cost of acquiring a second-grade welding machine manufacturer is not cheap. It is no different from killing a goose to retrieve the eggs. In order to get a component
, it is not worth spending hundreds of millions of yuan to acquire a useless domestic secondary welding machine manufacturer. Even if it is acquired, it will only control an IGBT arc welding inverter.
The third way is to produce it yourself.
If it is a normal situation, as Duan Menghui said, not to mention technical problems, it will really not be possible to solve it within a few months.
Even if Mu Yang can buy technology from the Achievement Point Store, although the IGBT arc welding inverter technology is not deep, it will still take him half a month to obtain the information, and it will probably take two to three months.
But now, with the human brain signal converter, Mu Yang can output data very quickly. It does not take half a month, maybe one day is enough. Give him less than two months, Xinghai Group may be able to produce a new IGBT arc
Welding inverter, and it is at least the world's first-class technical level, and can reach the world's top technical level at the highest.
However, Xinghai Group’s secondary protection welding machine does not have high requirements for IGBT arc welding inverter, as long as it meets the functional requirements. Because the IGBT arc welding inverter is not a core component for Xinghai Group’s secondary protection welding machine,
It does not affect the main functions.
This is similar to the Pingguo brand desktop computer, even if it uses an ordinary chassis, its main performance will not be affected.
If there are skilled workers, a factory and sufficient production equipment, one month is enough to produce a new IGBT arc welding inverter.
Thinking of this, Mu Yang was no longer under so much pressure. He smiled easily, turned to Zhou Chen and ordered:
"The secondary welding machine is in normal production. I will take care of the IGBT arc welding inverter. Mr. Zhou, the No. 5 workshop at the headquarters base is ready for use. Please arrange for someone to clean it up. We are going to produce IGBT arc welding inverter."
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"Boss, are you in a hurry?" Zhou Chen said sadly.
Mu Yang knocked on the table and said: "The technology of IGBT arc welding inverter is not difficult, I will solve it, the main thing is that we have to find skilled workers.
Aren’t these bastards trying to cut off our supply? We can dig people from these IGBT arc welding inverter companies, just skilled workers and technical talents. Our monthly output is not large, only 50,000 to 60,000 units a month, thirty
Workers and one or two technicians are enough.
They can cut off our goods, and we can also affect their normal production. As for the little money we lose by poaching people, it doesn’t matter. I’m not happy if I don’t disgust them.”
Zhou Chen, Duan Menghui and others' eyes lit up, this trick is indeed possible!
The salary and benefits of Xinghai Group are high, and many people want to join. Isn’t it just money? Xinghai Group has no shortage of it!
Find skilled workers and ask them to resign directly. Don't worry about whether they can resign after half a month. Resign immediately, and resign on the same day!
Most of the employees leaving on the same day will make these companies scrambled and will definitely seriously affect production.
The Xinghai Group will compensate the workers for their small wages, which is only one or two months' wages for dozens of workers, and only a hundred thousand yuan.
No matter what, as the boss said, they must be disgusted. If they do this, they will lose key personnel and production will be seriously affected.
"Okay, boss, you are ruthless. If these workers suddenly leave their jobs, maybe they can still get their salary." Zhou Chen clapped his hands and applauded, feeling less worried.
When Xinghai Group actually produces IGBT arc welding inverters, he now wants to see the surprised faces of these bastards.
Chapter completed!