Chapter Ninety-Three: The Beginning of the Agricultural Trading Company
After lunch, Xu Manli was entrusted to take care of Qi Lin at home, Qi Jingtao and Su Min rode a motorcycle to the dam of the fifth district and drove directly to the town's plateau agricultural trading company. This is the first time that the two of them have gone to the company since the establishment of the Highland Agricultural Trading Company.
Shi Lei took people out to the neighboring county to collect mushrooms and had not yet returned, and Zhang Jinglei, the manager of the administrative department, took them to visit the company's planning layout.
The original farm tool factory store has been greatly changed, four shops on the street have been transformed into agricultural product purchase stores, the left two buy wild mushrooms in the peak season, and the right two are used as business negotiation rooms for the purchase storage and transportation department.
The upstairs of the store was originally the office of the farm tool factory, with a passage and two stairs, and five rooms isolated from each other, which happened to be arranged as the office of the general manager, the administration department, the finance department, the sales department, and the storage and transportation department. Now there are two or three kittens, usually only Zhang Jinglei, the manager of the administrative department who is alone, and Lao Pan, the accountant of the finance department, and Jiang Lihong, the cashier, work on it.
In the compound, the left and right and the back row are one-story tiled houses, the four rooms on the left are arranged with a guard duty room, three temporary collective dormitories, the right is the canteen, and the five large rooms with a depth of 20 meters in the back row are warehouses, after all, they were originally warehouses of the farm tool factory, and those farm tools are not light objects, and they need to use a lot of space.
When I entered the warehouse, there was no stock, and it looked empty. A large number of empty bamboo baskets were piled up along the corners, which were used to hold the purchased mushrooms, and one basket could hold about 20 kilograms of mushrooms.
There is also a pile of folded and stacked packaging cartons next to it, with three different specifications: large, medium and small. Printed with exquisite wild mushroom patterns and the logo of the Central Yunnan Agricultural Trade Company, contact phone number and other information, these should be used to make gift box packaging for customers.
The room on the left is home to a row of large freezers for the freshness of produce that needs to be kept fresh temporarily.
The floor of the warehouse is 1.4 meters higher than the yard, which can not only prevent the backflow of water in the yard on rainy days, but also facilitate getting on and off the bus. The seven-metre-high single-storey warehouse has wooden shutters on the upper floors to keep it bright and well ventilated. The air circulation in the warehouse is good, and it is very cool.
At noon, those who went to the mountain to buy mountain goods had not returned, and there was not much business in the company, and there were only seven or eight people on duty.
The three of them walked around each room, and Zhang Jinglei also introduced Su Min, the financial manager, to several employees in the company, and everyone got to know each other. As for Qi Jingtao, that is an idler, the old watch of Shi Lei, the general manager of the company, came to the company to play with his old watch, so I don't have anything else to introduce.
Back in the administrative office, the office furniture inside is preserved from the original farm tool factory, four old-fashioned solid wood desks and chairs are still in good condition, a few low wooden bench back seats, and a solid wood coffee table enclosed the reception room.
Zhang Jinglei looked at Qi Jingtao with a smile and asked, "Xiao Qi, the company has just started, and the company environment we have arranged simply is okay, right?"
"Aunt Zhang, this is already very good. You have come forward to do things with us young people. In such a short period of time, it is much better than I imagined to keep this place in order, and it is hard work. ”
"It's hard to talk about, and I'm even more tired when I retire and have nothing to do at home. Hehe, I'm afraid that you work in a large group, and you are used to the high-end and high-end office environment, and you can't get used to seeing me as a small family!" Zhang Jinglei said calmly, carrying a hot water bottle and preparing to make tea for the two of them.
Qi Jingtao hurriedly walked over and took the hot water bottle from Zhang Jinglei's hand, and Su Min also took the teacup and tea leaves by himself, and made two cups of green tea. I helped Zhang Jinglei fill her water cup before returning to the wooden chair and sitting down.
"Aunt Zhang, how many mushrooms can you put away in a day during this time?" Qi Jingtao asked with concern.
"Not much, that's seven or eight tons. After 3 p.m., those who run the mountain will be delivered to the company, and they will also send a car to pick up the goods at several points in the neighboring county. We collect, sort, and pack the boxes that need to be sent to Spring City, and we will send them over that night. One car can be sent every day, and when there is a lot of goods, two cars, about five or six tons of mushrooms go to Spring City. There are 15 sales staff stationed in Spring City, and two mini cars are reserved for distribution and pick-up and drop-off sales. At present, there are three batch stalls, plus the 47 hotels and restaurants that have been contacted, each with an average daily consumption of 30 kilograms, which can basically be sold out.
The purchase price of mushrooms, spicy mushrooms is the highest, the average during this period is 130 yuan a kilogram, and only about 200 kilograms can be harvested a day, the output is too small, and the supply exceeds demand. The second is miscellaneous bacteria, with an average of 20 yuan a kilogram,......
Working capital needs about 200,000 yuan, at present, basically the purchase and sale are cash spots, there is no credit, we are ready to do 250,000 yuan as working capital is enough......" Zhang Jinglei took a notepad from the desk, sat down and told Qi Jingtao and Su Min the basic situation of the company.
"Cousin, the company now has 29 people and five cars, and the daily cash flow is not small. You and Ah Tao are chatting, I'll go to the finance department first. Su Min couldn't sit still and was going to work in the finance department, which she was also in charge of.
Qi Jingtao grabbed her, "Amin, don't be busy." Aunt Zhang has invited the original accountant and cashier of the farm tool factory, all of whom are old financers and are very familiar with the industrial and commercial tax bank in the town. As we have just seen, the financial system is also in place, and there will be no problems in the company's daily financial processing. Hehe, your financial manager is not a bookkeeper, don't get bogged down in the daily things of accounting processing. ”
Zhang Jinglei sat calmly, drank saliva, and said with a smile: "Xiaomin, sit down, listen to what the boss has to say, what can the financial manager do if he doesn't handle the company's accounts?"
"Hehe, Aunt Zhang, our company has just started now, and there are almost 30 people, after this season of fungi is done, maybe a few temporary recruiters will be reduced, and a private company of more than 20 people is not small. The company needs an experienced executive like you, as well as a financial manager. ”
Qi Jingtao paused for a while, took a sip of tea, looked at the two thoughtful department managers, and continued: "Amin is still a certified public accountant, and you know better than me what financial management is. I don't know about finance, I only know that financial management is an economic management work that organizes the financial activities of enterprises and deals with financial relations.
You can't stay in the company on a permanent basis, and the day-to-day accounting work will be handled by full-time accountants and cashiers. You need to do a good job of financial supervision from the financial system and grasp the financial situation. When you come to the company in the future, you should talk to Aunt Zhang and Shi Shi more managers to understand and grasp the company's business situation, and help them make financial analysis and financial decisions from the perspective of financial management. ”
Qi Jingtao doesn't understand the specific financial business, but he is a qualified programmer who does management system development and design work. This makes him develop a very bad habit, never look at the problem from the point of view of the enterprise business work, but based on the overall system business process to optimize and analyze and deal with it, at least from the operation system to analyze and look at the problem. In the words of their commander-in-chief, it is to do the most basic work, with the heart of the top leader, focus on the overall situation, and optimize the analysis