An Ning: "Lei Ting, you're really amazing."
Lei Ting: "It's nothing. Many suppliers like to play tricks. These are just minor tricks. You'll learn them as you go in the business world."
Anning: "This way, the cost will be lower, and the price of bread can be reduced."
Thunder: "Instead of lowering prices, let's increase the quantity without raising the price."
Anning: "More for the same price?"
Lei Ting: "Yes, this requires sorting out the purchase costs, calculating the cost ratio, and adding a small individually packaged bag of jam to the original bread. With seasonal cost pricing, the original overall cost does not increase, and it will also increase customer goodwill, which is more popular in the market than lowering the price."
Anning: "This way, we can satisfy the taste preferences of different groups of people. Adding a individually packaged blueberry jam to the strawberry jam bread is a great combination. Qingqing and Zhongjing, go and do it!"
Qingqing: "Okay, Mr. Lei, is there anything else you need?"
Lei Ting: "Not for now. Take care of this first. You need to control the cost ratio well, and at the same time, ensure that the overall cost does not increase while meeting customer needs to the greatest extent possible."
Zhongjing: "Understood, we will take care of these matters immediately."
Zhong Jinghe quietly left An Ning's office. An Ning relaxed a little. Lei Ting stood behind her. An Ning asked him to sit down. Lei Ting stroked An Ning's face. The domineering aura of President Lei just now had completely disappeared.
Thunder: "My peace is obvious."
An Ning: "You're being all sentimental again. Where did Lei's domineering aura go? You're so meticulous at work. I really like your logical thinking."
Thunder: "I can't be domineering in front of you."
Anning: "Hehe, Leiting, a supplier is coming soon. He's really annoying and greedy."
Thunder: "The supplier in charge of what?"
Anning: "As for the ingredients, ever since I started my baking factory, I've been working with him on ingredients like cinnamon, basil, and vanilla pods."
Thunder: "What's wrong with you? Why do you hate me?"
Anning: "His name is Geng Hao. He is an overseas Chinese in his forties. These auxiliary materials are often out of stock, and raising prices is a common tactic he uses. He is very cunning. He signed a six-month contract with me, and I acquiesced to the multiple stock shortages and price increases within those six months. I thought I could find a new supplier when the contract expired, but he seems to have a wide network of connections. For the time being, no supplier has agreed to cooperate with me. I wonder if he is behind this."
Lei Ting: "Geng Hao? I remember there's a Chinese medicine importer in our family whose name is Geng Hao. Wait a moment, I'll ask Guo Fan."
Lei Ting picked up the phone and called Guo Fan.
Guo Fan: "President Lei."
Lei Ting: "One of our suppliers of Chinese medicine exported abroad is named Geng Hao, right? He's an overseas Chinese man around forty years old."
Guo Fan: "Yes, but he deliberately lowered the price multiple times and made malicious after-sales demands. We stopped cooperating with him last month, blacklisted him, and will never cooperate with him again."
Lei Ting: "That's good. We definitely won't cooperate with someone like that. Contact the person in charge of the traditional Chinese medicine shop in Niujin City later and have him come to the baking factory."
Guo Fan: "Okay."
After hanging up with Guo Fan, Lei Ting had a vague impression of Geng Hao but couldn't quite place him, so he decided to call Liao Qian to ask.
Liao Qian: "I'm changing my dressing, what's it to you..."
Thunder: "Do you remember Geng Hao?"
Liao Qian: "Geng Hao? That overseas Chinese, the one who imports Chinese medicine excipients from your family and sells them abroad?"
Thunder: "It's him! I can't seem to recall ever having any contact with him!"
Liao Qian: "Young Master Lei, you have a bad memory. Have you forgotten that when our two families first started cooperating on the export of Chinese medicine, Geng Hao, as one of the suppliers, in order to lower the price, obtained some water-soaked, hairy licorice from who-knows-where and falsely accused your family of doing so? Your grandfather compensated him with a ton of licorice to settle the matter. Weren't you furious back then?"
Lei Ting: "Oh, I remember now, this batch of licorice was originally supposed to be air-freighted, but he insisted on having it transported by ship to Dunlun. Afterwards, he brought all the moldy licorice back and displayed it in front of the Lei Group building, ripping us off. That swindler."
Liao Qian: "Yes, you finally remembered. After he extorted that batch of licorice from you, you stopped cooperating. You only started cooperating with him a little half a year ago. Maybe he thought you had forgotten about him all these years. The baking factory in Anning gets its ingredients from him at ridiculously high prices. That old guy is so clever! He signed a six-month contract with Anning. He's really cunning!"
Lei Ting: "These auxiliary materials are available at Chinese medicine shops. Why didn't you let An Ning get them from our family's Chinese medicine shop back then!"
Liao Qian: "He's trying to avoid you, yet he's going to your Chinese medicine shop to get auxiliary materials. Is it because his contract with Anning has expired and he's going to renew it today?"
Lei Ting: "Why would I renew a contract with someone else for something I already own? From now on, I'll take care of all the ingredients for the baking factory. If that old bastard still dares to come, he'll be taught a lesson by me and avenge the licorice incident from back then."
Liao Qian: "Hahaha... A gentleman takes his revenge even after ten years! It's his karma that he ran into you... Hahaha..."
Liao Qian hung up the phone and laughed uncontrollably. Back then, Lei Ting and Liao Qian were still young. On their way home from school, they saw someone shouting through a megaphone in front of the Lei Group building. Lei Ting ran over to see what was going on and found a pile of fuzzy licorice on the ground. Lei Ting picked it up and examined it. The licorice had rough cut surfaces, clearly indicating it was a substandard product from that small workshop and couldn't possibly be a traditional Chinese medicine produced by the Lei Group. Lei Ting confronted him, but Geng Hao pulled out the purchase order and shipping route, insisting that it had been contaminated with seawater. Lei Ting was furious. Lei Ye pulled him aside and promised to compensate Geng Hao with a ton of licorice. Seeing that he had achieved his goal, Geng Hao set fire to the pile of fuzzy licorice in front of the Lei Group building. Now, that fire was reignited in Lei Ting's eyes. After so many years, he wondered if Geng Hao still recognized him.
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