It took Cheng Maixiang five days, a full five days, to figure out the situation.
On the afternoon of the day of returning home, Cheng Maixiang and Lin Jiayu came to the county and found Secretary Song, expressing their willingness to pay to rent the abandoned factory building of the pastry factory.
This factory building would be useless if it was just sitting there, so it would be great if someone was willing to pay to rent it. Besides, Secretary Song was willing to help her and even gave her a preferential price of only 4,000 yuan in rent a year.
Cheng Maixiang was overjoyed and signed a five-year contract directly. After paying one year's rent, the factory building belonged to the garment factory.
On the day she returned from the city, Cheng Maixiang asked Cheng Maiqing to hire dozens of people in the village to clean the factory. Originally, the people in the garment workshop also wanted to help, but the production task was too heavy, so Cheng Maixiang directly refused.
Cheng Maixiang offered one yuan a day, which was not a low price. It was not the busy farming season, and most of the villagers were idle. They all came to work because they finally had a job that could make money. In the end, Cheng Maiqing selected fifty people, and they cleaned the factory from inside to outside in just one day.
Cheng Maixiang spent another two full days dividing the factory area in detail, planning out the production area and warehouse area. The production area was separated into an inspection area, and the warehouse area was divided into raw material area and finished product area. An area for unqualified products was also specially reserved, and the on-site office area was separated by small partitions.
As for the five offices, Cheng Maixiang initially planned them to be the factory director's office, the supply and marketing department's office, the production department's office, the finance department's office, and a security room.
As for the desks and filing cabinets inside, although they were old in style, they were still usable. Cheng Maixiang kept them and asked someone to customize five small signs to hang on the doors of the five offices.
"Jia Yu, this is my preliminary work plan. Please see if there is anything you need to add."
Lin Jiayu took a piece of paper with densely written small words on it from Cheng Maixiang and sighed deeply.
For the past five days, his young wife has been busy day and night and couldn't even go back to the county. He had no choice but to stay with her in Shuangshui Village and work with her. After five days, they finally figured out a clue. He wanted to let her have a good rest and then they would discuss the next plan.
But unexpectedly, the young wife was like a chicken with its blood pumped up, and she discussed with him for a whole night and worked out a detailed work plan.
Lin Jiayu now hates this garment factory. People say that newlyweds are inseparable and inseparable, but he doesn't think he has such a good chance. He finally managed to stay with his young wife for three days, but as soon as he arrived at the garment factory, he had to stand aside.
Oh, what a miserable life!
Lin Jiayu glanced at the plan in his hand, suppressed the urge to tear it up, and began to read it carefully.
As he read, Lin Jiayu forgot the hatred he had just felt and gradually immersed himself in the two people's plan for the future development of the garment factory.
Cheng Maixiang's plan basically covered all the topics the two had just discussed, and made detailed plans from aspects such as scale expansion, department division, functional responsibilities, personnel recruitment and performance evaluation.
At the end of the year, Cheng Maixiang received a dividend of more than 20,000 yuan, but she only kept 3,000 yuan for herself, which was considered the common property of her and Lin Jiayu. After deducting the 4,000 yuan for renting the factory, she had about 15,000 yuan left, which she planned to invest all in the expansion of the new factory.
First, the two planned to initially purchase 70 sewing machines, adding to the existing 30, for a total of 100 sewing machines. In this way, the production capacity would be more than doubled.
However, once the scale expands, management improvement will naturally have to be put on the agenda. The original small workshop-style management with only a dozen people will inevitably be unable to adapt to the current large-scale mass production.
"Jia Yu, what do you think of the structure diagram of the garment workshop department that I drew? Do you need to make any changes?"
Cheng Maixiang leaned close to Lin Jiayu's face and asked softly. The fragrant scent from her mouth made Lin Jiayu feel distracted again.
Lin Jiayu calmed himself down and looked carefully at the framework diagram drawn by his young wife on the paper. At the top were the two words "factory director". Several lines were drawn below these two words, which read Production Department, Quality Department, Supply and Marketing Department, Finance Department, and Warehousing Department respectively. The Production Department was divided into two or three straight lines, which were the Embroidery Workshop, Clothing Workshop 1, and Clothing Workshop 2 respectively.
In fact, according to Lin Jiayu's suggestion, although the profit margin of handkerchiefs is not lower than that of clothing, the efficiency is low after all, and the profitability is not as good as clothing. So he simply took advantage of the expansion of the garment factory to cut this department.
But Cheng Maixiang disagreed. After all, these female embroidery workers had been working with her since the garment workshop opened. If they were to be laid off simply because embroidery did not make as much money as clothing, it would really dishearten them.
There was no other way, so Lin Jiayu gave her another idea. She could allocate a few sewing machines to the embroidery workshop and let them use the sewing machines to embroider. After all, the patterns designed by the young wife for them were very good, and even if they used sewing machines, there would be no shortage of customers.
Cheng Maixiang agreed with his plan. After all, although handkerchiefs made little money in the past, the embroidery workers worked as hard as those who made clothes. In addition, there were few embroiderers, so Cheng Maixiang would set aside a sum of money every month to subsidize them. The other female workers didn't say much, but once the production scale expanded in the future, this model could no longer continue. Lin Jiayu's suggestion was exactly what she wanted.
"Well, you appointed a manager for the production department, and a workshop director in each workshop to manage that workshop. In addition, you appointed two people each for the supply and marketing department, the warehousing department, and the finance department. Adding the factory director, there are at least eleven management personnel in the factory. The management personnel account for about ten percent, which is quite reasonable."
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