Chapter 195: It's not easy to sell tobacco leaves
In August, it has entered the flue-cured tobacco purchase season.
This year, the "flue-cured tobacco acquisition management system" introduced from a commercial software development company will be fully put into use. More than 100 flue-cured tobacco purchasing points in eight counties and one district in central Yunnan have begun to use computer system software to assist in the purchase of tobacco leaves.
Qi Jingtao was designated to be in charge of the county company's informatization construction business, and had to cooperate with the business departments responsible for the county company's flue-cured tobacco production to grasp the county company's informatization work.
Recently, I accompanied my colleagues from the flue-cured tobacco department to inspect various tobacco leaf purchasing stations to collect first-hand information in the actual application process and urge commercial software companies to improve the functions and quality of the software. These have become Qi Jingtao's main tasks, and he is going to go down to the county to wander around again.
The annual flue-cured tobacco buying season is a battle that lasts for months for county-level tobacco companies. At the tobacco leaf purchasing sites distributed in the flue-cured tobacco planting areas, the county company generally assigns 1 to 3 regular employees to work as abbots, and they lead the short-term contract staff recruited from the local village committees to carry out the procurement work.
These staff members include uniformly trained and experienced flue-cured tobacco inspectors, full-time weighing personnel, independent bookkeeping personnel, warehouse handling and packaging personnel, accounting settlement and verification personnel, cash payment personnel dispatched by the local Agricultural Bank, and logistics security and transportation personnel. There are all kinds of people, 50 or 60 people in small-scale tobacco stations, and more than 100 people in large-scale tobacco stations are waiting to get up early and work greedily to sort and inspect tobacco leaves, purchase and warehousing, and pack and ship them.
In the past, in the process of purchasing flue-cured tobacco, tobacco farmers lined up in long queues. Finally, after the grading and weighing, I have to take the weighing voucher and wait in line again for statistical settlement and cash payment. Waiting and waiting, tobacco farmers come to the tobacco station to sell a flue-cured tobacco, often have to delay for a day, and even take two or three days in the peak area, often causing complaints.
Qi Jingtao has sold tobacco leaves many times before, and he has personal experience and experience. The family finally completed the last process - flue-cured tobacco grading, and the tobacco leaves were picked and transported to the local tobacco leaf purchasing station for sale. Waiting in long queues, constantly carrying and moving the burden of loading tobacco leaves; after grading and grading and weighing, they lined up again with a few thin pieces of paper written by hand; waited for the accountants with abacus on the tables to settle, register, and audit in a slow and orderly manner; and continued to queue up for a longer time with the settlement triple bill issued by the tobacco station, waiting outside the cash payment window of the Agricultural Bank of China, waiting for them to re-examine in an orderly manner, and go through the procedures for cash payment or local storage.
Every time I go to the tobacco station to sell tobacco leaves, I don't need to talk about other situations. A toss of the sales process can definitely make the people who sell flue-cured tobacco want to die and be exhausted.
This time, the "flue-cured tobacco acquisition management system" has been fully put into use, and the biggest change is the change in the accounting and settlement process of the tobacco station, resulting in the improvement of settlement efficiency.
Qi Jingtao has long been familiar with the technical affairs such as the construction of the "flue-cured tobacco acquisition management system" software, development tools, functional module settings, business processes, etc. The quality of using software also depends on the actual application effect.
The role of Qi Jingtaolai's tobacco station is to evaluate the actual application effect of the "flue-cured tobacco acquisition management system" software, and provide professional user opinions and suggestions for the next improvement and upgrading. He is not a development designer. Rather, it is to be picked by the user.
Arriving at a smoke station, Qi Jingtao walked around the smoke station. He stood casually next to a weighing point, just in time to see a grading officer accompany the tobacco farmer to weigh it. The inspector shouted loudly to the weighing personnel: "The flue-cured tobacco household number is 2110089, and Li Chaodong's family weighs it." ”
"2110089, right?" the weigher shouted to confirm the information.
"Yes 2110089 number. ”
"Li Chaodong!"
"Come on, come on, go down orange one. ”
With the sound of agreement, a thin black man happily came to the scale, holding a big hug in his arms, which had just been mined and roasted, and the lower part of the tobacco was rated as the best flue-cured tobacco and the lower orange flue-cured tobacco.
The thin black man put the flue-cured tobacco he was holding on the scale, and hurriedly trotted back to pick up the sorted tobacco leaves.
Qi Jingtao, who was wearing a work card, knocked on the door, entered the computer operation room next to it, and saw the information displayed on the computer screen in front of the computer operator, flue-cured tobacco household number: kf0802-2110089, address: group 10, Fanyang Village Committee, Tonghongdian Township, Huajiao County, head of household: Li Chaodong, planting area: 17.6 acres, estimated output of 6600 kilograms, variety: safflower Dajin Yuan.......
There are more than 10 projects, accounting for half of the screen, which is the basic information of flue-cured tobacco growers that has been established by the "Flue-cured Tobacco Acquisition Management System". This is a bit cumbersome, and it tires the eyes when you look at it, but the operation interface should still be as simple and practical as possible.
The top row shows the basic information of the operator.
The following is the weighing list, the operator typed the word "X1F" on the keyboard, and waited for the weighing staff to report the number to her.
"Lower orange one, 139.65 kg. The number of the weighing staff came in. The smoke station was crowded with people and noisy. The weighing personnel must shout loudly and report the number.
The scale scale can also be seen from the position of the computer operator, but it must be prepared with the number shouted by the weighing person. If she finds that there is an error in the data reported by the weigher, she can ask for the weighing again.
Anyone who has ever used a scale knows that weighing is not only about the scale, but also about calculating the weight of the weight. If it's an electronic scale, it's much better, it's clear at a glance. Moreover, the data weighed by the electronic scale can be collected and transmitted directly to the computer system.
Look at the computer operator to confirm the number, type 139.65, press enter to confirm.
"Lower orange two, 187.23 kg. ”
"Lower orange three, 208.5 kg. ”
……
"Lower Lemon IV, 21. 25 kg. Finished. ”
After the computer operator finished the operation, he reached out and took the record book of another manual recorder standing next to the scale, checked the number of flue-cured tobacco grades on the computer screen one by one, and confirmed that the data was completely consistent, and then pressed the settlement button to finally confirm the weighing data. The printer quickly prints out the settlement list of the quadruple sheet, and the manual recorder next to it tears off the printed list, confirms the data, signs and seals the voucher and retains a voucher, and hands over the other triple-bills to the tobacco farmers.
The man named Li Chaodong wiped his sweat and wanted to take orders, but he felt that his hands were too dirty and covered with sweat. Awkwardly wiped his hands clean on his body, and then carefully took the triptych order, checked the number on it item by item, and of course, the most concerned was the set of data in the lower right corner that represented his income today.
After making sure that the data was correct, Li Chaodong happily went to the entrance of the tobacco station, where the Agricultural Bank of China, which cooperates with the tobacco company, set up an on-site office to handle cash business for the tobacco farmers.
This black and thin man named Li Chaodong, his flue-cured tobacco sales task today is basically completed. It's time to take the money home!