Compared to other companies, Jiafeng Electronics' biggest advantage is its management. High salaries bring high efficiency and high execution rates. Here, if you are even one step behind, you may face elimination.
It is indeed very tiring, especially for middle management. In state-owned enterprises, you can just drink tea and have meals, but here you have to work your butt off. However, there is one advantage: it is a great training ground for people.
Many companies are vying for the middle management positions that have emerged from Jiafeng Electronics, and some have even managed to get jobs in foreign companies. There has been ongoing criticism of Jiafeng Electronics' management model.
Sweatshops always felt they were cruel, until they saw Jiafeng Electronics and instantly became enlightened!
The rise in the short term comes at a price. In the early days, factories in coastal areas produced cheap products and employed cheap migrant workers. According to incomplete statistics, at the peak of the migrant worker wave, as many as 40,000 people had their hands and feet broken in factories in Guangzhou alone each year.
In less than twenty minutes, the meeting room was filled with seventy or eighty people, all of whom were involved in logistics, which was currently in a state of great disarray for Jiafeng Electronics.
Lu Feng repeatedly emphasized the prohibition of kickbacks, but kickbacks have become the norm in the logistics sector. Since everyone is hauling goods, it doesn't matter who you ask.
These people may be nothing in front of Lu Feng, just a low-level manager, but in the eyes of those truck drivers, logistics companies, and even distributors, they are all big shots.
Two months ago, Zhang Fengxia appointed several supervisors. The VCD market exploded, and distributors began to scramble for goods. However, two of the supervisors refused to sign delivery slips when dealing with local distributors in Suzhou.
The distributor rushed over to offer a red envelope, but the other party refused it. The distributor immediately told the other party that if they wanted to take the goods away, they had to use the truck he specified, otherwise there was no way they could get the goods.
The truck designated by the other party belonged to his relative. In the end, the goods were transported from Suzhou to Nantong in this truck at a price ten times higher than the market price. He took kickbacks not only in the signing of the delivery note, but also in the warehousing and cargo arrangement.
When Zhang Fengxia mentioned this matter in a meeting, some people below actually whispered, "Let's take a gamble and see if we can turn a bicycle into a motorcycle."
Ultimately, the lightest sentence for these people was six months, and the heaviest was a year and a half. It was this incident that made Lu Feng realize that the logistics department needed to be strengthened, otherwise, if things continued in this chaotic state, problems would arise.
Around 10 a.m., Lu Feng stepped into the conference room. Everyone stood up and looked towards the door. Lu Feng waved his hand, indicating that everyone should sit down.
To my left sat a man in his forties, with a square face, a crew cut, and an air of righteousness.
"This is the manager of the truck dispatch department!" Zhang Fengxia introduced.
"Hello, Mr. Lu. My name is Liang Ping. I'm currently in charge of the truck dispatch for this factory. For urgent deliveries within the province, we deliver directly from the factory. Otherwise, we supply our direct sales outlets. We have thoroughly rectified the situation that happened last time and have learned from this experience to eliminate a number of bad apples," Liang Ping said with particular seriousness.
Lu Feng nodded and glanced at everyone. Instantly, everyone in the room straightened their backs, sat up straight, and the entire conference room became exceptionally quiet.
Everyone present assumed that Lu Feng had come to reiterate what happened last time, fearing further repercussions, so they dared not speak.
“That matter has been resolved. We need to learn from the experience and strengthen our management. I’ve called everyone here today to understand the current state of logistics.” Lu Feng said to everyone, “Please speak up and share your thoughts on the true state of the logistics market.”
Hearing this, Liang Ping felt relieved and said, "President Lu, the logistics market is quite chaotic right now. Within a province, logistics is basically monopolized by a few large companies, and inter-provincial logistics is even more chaotic. There's only one road between many provinces, and it's not even a highway, so there are quite a few highway robberies."
"Our inter-provincial logistics mainly rely on water transport, with the Yangtze River connecting all provinces, or cargo ships at ports."
"Let's not talk about inter-provincial transport for now," Lu Feng interrupted him, saying, "Currently, the best way to transport goods across provinces is by water. What are the main means of maintaining the logistics industry within a province?"
"It's all about using various methods. You really can't survive in this industry without some skills." Liang Ping pondered for a moment and said, "As far as I know, several logistics companies have had fierce battles over goods many times. They'll tell you not to do it, and they won't let you do it. For example, if a company needs to deliver goods to a city for a long time and uses another company, someone will come to warn you the next day!"
"That's right. A while ago, a company called Tiande Parts was delivering goods to Yangzhou. I think it was for motorcycle parts, like motorcycle shock absorbers or something. They had a big order and needed to make several deliveries, so they used a company called Jinhe Logistics."
A young man said to himself, “A few days later, someone contacted them and told them to use Yongchang Logistics, or else they would have to deal with the consequences themselves.”
“Yes, yes, I know about this. My friend works at Jinhe Logistics.” Another man chimed in, “Jinhe Logistics has seventeen trucks. My friend is a gangster and he works there as a truck guard. They wouldn’t let him take the job, but the boss wouldn’t listen. That night, seven of the trucks were smashed, and my friend was injured.”
“Don’t even mention these small companies, we were harassed at the beginning too.” Liang Ping sighed and said, “Later, they saw that our company was big and didn’t dare to confront us directly, plus most of our business is by water transport.”
As Lu Feng listened to their back-and-forth conversation, he gained a basic understanding of the current logistics industry, which still retained a sense of being a security escort agency.
A truck, with one driver and two or three guards, fights are commonplace in their struggle for business and monopolistic practices, and sometimes even theft of cargo occurs.
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