On the first working day of the new year, Kent arrived at the White Lotus headquarters in the suburbs early in the morning. The once overcrowded office building has been moved to an empty place, and almost all the departments have been merged into standard e-commerce and standard logistics, all moving to new buildings rented in the city. And in the future, White Lotus will become a professional investment company after taking over the investment department of Shuijing. In other words, the traditional mail-order business, which Kent had worked on for most of his life, had been completely abolished since the New Year.

Reminiscing about the past inside and outside the building, Kent sighed with emotion. When he walked to the lawn outside, Crete, a gardener who was mowing the lawn, greeted, "Mr. Kent!"

Crete is a veteran employee of White Lotus and has been serving the company for more than twenty years. Kent stopped: "Crete, how about you guys staying?"

"It's all good, sir. Crete smiled, and at the end of the year he was given a bonus equivalent to 20 weeks' salary, and all the employees were very happy.

Kent asked, "The construction of the company's new headquarters has begun, is there any interest in working there?"

Crete seemed to be a little tempted. However, after thinking about it, he still refused with a smile: "No, someone needs to clean it here, and I'm used to it." Thank you sir!"

"That's good, the White Lotus (investment company) may still work here in the future. Your income will never be lower than there. Kent promised with a smile.

"Rest assured. Crete immediately assured, "I guarantee every day that there will be pots of flowers in the boss and your office." Oh, and I want Miss Mai Ting to be the hostess, and I made a fifty-dollar bet with Vic. ”

The two laughed. And Crete suddenly hesitated: "Sir, how is David doing? He didn't cause trouble to the company, right?" David is Crete's son, who was not admitted to college after graduating from high school, and has just entered the standard logistics job with the help of Crete's relationship.

Kent laughed. He patted Crete on the shoulder: "That kid is very good, he will definitely have a future better than you." ”

Crete became excited: "Thank you, sir. Thank you to the owner too!"

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By the time Kent returned to Standard Headquarters, more than 200 community commissioners from across the United States had arrived. In less than two months after its establishment, Standard Logistics has invested more than $30 million before and after, and has also merged five logistics and warehousing centers worth more than $40 million from the original White Lotus, but the logistics company has actually achieved a profit, although this profit is only $690,000.

The relationship between standard e-commerce and standard logistics has been clearly divided. If you buy a product now, the delivery fee for each time will be listed separately from the price of the product. It's not very vague that it's all included. This is also a promotional tool to encourage customers to buy as many items as possible with a limited courier fee.

And the community commissioners in 11 of North America's largest cities are looking forward to it. Because standard logistics will be introducing a partnership system for the first time, these specialists will be the first to be selected.

Seeing Kent walk in, the large conference hall immediately fell silent. Kent's opening remarks were simple and to the point: "Hello everyone, you are new to Standard Group, and I am new to the company's management. But in just a few months, you can see the company thriving. Last month, we have increased our business by more than 160%, and this year's goal is to double last year......"

David and a few other community commissioners listened very carefully. In fact, they have already seen the company's partnership plan, so to speak, there are risks, but there is also the possibility of future growth.

Unlike other industries, the express delivery industry has always been a very humble and highly profitable industry. Later, China's SF Express must have known that it had studied its own express robots and express drones. Even now, FedEx in the United States is also the largest airline in the world. Yes, you read that right, this courier company has the largest air fleet in the world!

Therefore, at the beginning, several express giants such as FedEx found the emergence of the Standard Group, hoping to get this business on very favorable terms. Later, they found out that Standard Group had built its own logistics company, and they retreated to the second best thing and wanted to take a stake in this logistics company. Of course, they were all rejected by the Standard Group.

Jing Jian knows the future development. The emergence of e-commerce is also the second spring of express delivery companies. Now there are only some preferential conditions, which are not attractive at all.

However, compared with established express companies such as FedEx, the newly established standard logistics costs are staggering and the investment is huge. As a simple example, FedEx delivers a shipment from Los Angeles to New York, and they have ready-made flights, ready-made warehousing, ready-made fleets...... , nothing more than a fuller container stuffed. For standard logistics, it is necessary to rent new flights, build new warehouses, and build new fleets ....... This is why, the express delivery industry is basically a winner-takes-all, and the latecomers have invested so much that they can only watch these giants maintain their monopoly.

In order to reduce costs, under Jing Jian's suggestion, Standard Logistics simply gave up part of its interests and introduced a partnership system. Because the biggest cost of express delivery is in the "last five kilometers", that is, the link between picking up the express and sending the express to the door. So Standard Logistics simply gave all this part of the income to those community commissioners. In a word, the more they give, the higher the income.

Soon it was time to ask: "Mr. Kent, is it mandatory to choose to be a partner?

Obviously, standard logistics has just begun to develop, and most of the community business is insufficient, and the partner's commission is far less than the fixed salary and bonus of the staff. Therefore, choosing a partner is a risky business. So far, the only way to reach income balance has been to keep a community. David's community, for example, lost nearly a third of its income. In addition, if you choose to become a partner, you will have to pay a security deposit to the company. And these tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars, are also a huge amount of money for ordinary employees.

Kent smiled slightly: "Of course it's not mandatory, and of course you don't have to choose." You can go through the information you have, and each community has an estimate, calculated based on the potential of the community and the amount of business you have. Yes, choosing a partner is a bit of a loss on the surface. But have you ever thought about it? Actually, the company encourages you to do the welfare?"

"Huh?" exclaimed in unison, and all the commissioners lifted their spirits......