Chapter 634
Nowadays, the market demand for papaya shreds and soft ginger candy is very large, and Su Miao plans to optimize the production capacity layout.
Previously, with the help of Xiaopang Ge, she purchased two automatic packaging production lines, bid farewell to the stage of pure manual packaging, and greatly improved production efficiency.
Now, she wants to completely separate the production lines of papaya shreds and soft ginger candy. In the future, the Yongcheng workshop will only be responsible for the production of soft ginger candy, while the village factory will carry out the full process production of papaya shreds.
The papaya garden has been expanded twice and has become a large papaya forest.
While ensuring the cultivation of our own raw materials, the way we purchase papayas from outside has not changed.
Over time, villagers in this village and nearby villages have consciously planted papayas on idle land because of this business. In this way, there is enough papaya to supply Su Ji.
Since the production process has changed, the workshop must also be adjusted.
The village factory's work area is divided into papaya cleaning room, shredding room, drying yard, spare drying room, pickling room and packaging room. The shredding room and packaging room have been semi-automated, and Su Miao will upgrade other links later.
In the workshop, the original papaya pickling workshop was demolished, and the area was doubled after being connected with the sugar-making room, and 8 new traditional stoves were added.
Although Xiaopang Ge said that he had found a machine that could automatically heat and stir, Su Miao still decided to keep the traditional stove pot and use the manual method of boiling sugar to live up to the word "traditional".
Guangxi is a major sugar-producing province, and they are from Ning County. Xiaopangge's uncle has been transferred back to Ning County Sugar Factory as the factory director. They can directly buy large quantities of raw materials at very low prices.
In order to increase production, there must be sufficient manpower. On the original basis, the village factory and workshop each recruited 3 employees.
New employees must undergo rigorous training before they can truly enter the production process.
In the village factory, my second aunt was responsible for taking the newcomers to various workshops.
In the washing room, water rushed through the papayas, and experienced employees taught the newcomers how to select high-quality papayas and remove the defective ones.
The semi-automated machines in the shredding room hummed. New employees curiously watched as the conveyor belt delivered the shredded papayas, while experienced employees patiently explained operating precautions and simple maintenance methods.
On the drying yard, everyone spread out the shredded papaya evenly, feeling the sun and breeze. An experienced employee shared his experience in judging the degree of drying:
"When the papaya shreds turn darker in color, the moisture evaporates, and they no longer feel sticky, they're almost done."
Over at the workshop, a sweet aroma wafted from the sugar-making room.
The old employees gathered around the traditional stove, stirring the syrup boiling in the pot and telling the new employees the tips of making sugar.
"The heat is crucial. If it's too high, it burns easily. If it's too low, the flavor won't come out. Look at the color of the candy; it needs to be cooked until it turns amber."
The new employees opened their eyes wide, carefully observing the changes in the pot, and occasionally picked up a large spatula to learn how to stir it.
During the training, Su Miao was not idle either.
Every day she runs back and forth between the village factory and the workshop to check production progress and solve problems encountered.
While increasing production capacity, Su Miao pays more attention to product quality.
She has established strict quality inspection standards, and does not miss any link from the acceptance of raw materials, to random inspections during the production process, to the inspection of finished products.
The papaya shreds produced by the village factory must undergo multiple tests on color, taste, saltiness, etc.; the soft ginger candy produced by the workshop must be checked for hardness of the candy, richness of ginger flavor, etc.
Once unqualified products are found, they must be reworked or destroyed immediately.
After such adjustments in manpower and workshop, the output of papaya shreds increased by 60% and the output of soft ginger candy doubled.
Although the two production lines have been separated, the Yongcheng workshop is still the base camp and transit station.
In addition to large orders from department stores that can be delivered directly, the rest of the papaya shreds are transported from the factory and then transferred and distributed.
Fortunately, the workshop consisting of three courtyards has sufficient space and the warehouse capacity is also sufficient.
Now goods need to be transported every day, so Uncle Huzi introduced two drivers who used to drive with him. The three of them take turns to rest, ensuring that there are two people delivering goods together every day.
The truck he was driving now was rented by Su Ji. After Su Miao looked at the revenue surplus from the previous year, he asked Brother Yu and Uncle Hu Zi to go and look at the truck.
The company will purchase special transport trucks within this quarter. As for what kind of vehicle to buy, new or used, they will go and see it first, and then make a report if they think it is suitable.
With more and more employees, the administrative personnel and financial management also need to be systematically optimized.
Su Miao set up an office in the front yard of the main store and added administrative, accounting and cashier positions.
Previously, all affairs in the store were directly under the charge of the store manager, but Brother Yu and Brother Yi had too many things to take care of. Now that there are administrative positions to assist with scheduling, attendance management and other administrative arrangements, they can relax a lot.
In the future, we will establish a personal file for each employee to record work performance, rewards and punishments, set up quarterly and annual appraisals, and outstanding employees can be promoted or get a salary increase.
The cashier was picked directly from the financial department of "Anye" Real Estate.
He has a junior college degree in finance, is a native of Nancheng, and comes from a well-off family. He should have been assigned to a unit after graduation, but was hired by his fat uncle with a high salary.
After Xiaopang Ge established the company, he followed her to "Anye". He had had a lot of contact with Su Miao before, and all the machines he bought were through her. He was very optimistic about Su Ji's development.
So, when Xiaopangge and Su Miao asked her if she was willing to work at Su Ji, she agreed readily.
As for the accountant, they hired an old accountant who was nearly 50 years old and had retired from the state-owned food factory two years ago due to health reasons.
He is absolutely experienced and authoritative, mainly because he is very familiar with all relevant units in Nanning. Standardized accounting is simply the most insignificant of all his advantages.
When Hui Jie happily handed over the accounts, she asked in confusion:
"Miao Miao, do we have to split the accounting and cashier jobs between two people? They're both responsible for managing money. Our family's current accounts aren't that complicated, so I guess one person can handle it."
Su Miao replied, "Sister Hui, you were in charge of all the accounts before, so you don't have to worry about so much.
But now, accountants and cashiers, as external employees, must also be managed. We must attach importance to the principle of separation of money and accounts and avoid financial risks.
Sister Hui, if we want to grow bigger and stronger, we need to standardize and tighten management."
Su Miao spoke nicely, which not only showed her complete trust in Sister Hui and explained the intention of the job division, but also indirectly indicated that the company would take a formal route in the future and all employees would need to act in accordance with the rules and regulations.
This was the first time Su Hui heard of this, and curiously she pulled her aside to ask in detail what this principle and risk avoidance specifically were.
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