By the time Sioux City returned to Dahua Shipbuilding, the first five low-tonnage vessels had been launched and delivered. The second batch of five experimental ships was mostly completed.

Plate processing workshops, plane segmented production lines, standard segmented assembly areas, hull segmented assembly tables, trailers, overhead cranes, downstream shipbuilding stations and other shipyard institutions are lined up along the Huangpu River......

New or old equipment is constantly being shipped from the dock and then installed along the layout of Dahua's factory.

Dahua Gas Company and Jichai Power Engine Factory both sent hundreds of people to help. The 200 senior technicians promised by Jiangnan Shipyard are also busy on the front line of production. There is no problem with their technology, not to mention the skilled workers with ten years of experience, and they are also good hands abroad.

Despite this, the atmosphere inside Dahua Shipbuilding is quite dignified.

The fastest 250 days, that is, 8 months to make a boat, is a common occurrence in foreign countries, but for Chinese shipping companies, it is unexpected.

Put it in the journal of the university, this ship was made, and it was immediately "a number of filling the gaps in the country", not to mention enough for two professors and five associate professors.

Su Cheng invited ship experts from more than a dozen colleges and universities through Li Cang, but in fact, he also had this idea. Su Cheng tacitly acquiesced that they could write their work in their own articles, and those experts who usually played big names immediately behaved like thin scalpers.

Dahua Shipbuilding's own engineers do not need to publish articles to evaluate their titles, and these benefits will not affect Dahua when they are distributed to the university. It can attract a few more people to help.

In heavy industrial production such as the shipbuilding industry, there are not many technical experts.

A ship is a set of systems engineering, and the design of a table can find a theoretical basis. In reality, however, there is nothing wrong with a little more guidance based on theory. Later generations of media always like to use the lack of humanity to describe goods made in China, in fact, the lack of humanity is the lack of professional designers and professional theoretical engineers. Apple and Sony's stuff is really beautiful, it's been piled up with countless designers, and it's the same button. Foreign designers spend 200 hours to do design, which means that the company pays a salary of more than 100,000 US dollars for half a year, in exchange for just a button. The budget of a domestic enterprise to make a product may be more than one million yuan, and the result is naturally different.

On a ship, what 10 designers and engineers make is naturally coarser than what 100 designers and engineers make.

On the other hand, the design of the process method of the production process is still quite helpful for the improvement of productivity.

Laying the steel plate first and then welding, it sounds simple. Which board can be laid first, which place to weld first. The outcome could have been different.

Especially in places where the hull is narrow, welding robots are not used, and welders can't even reach out. In this case, it is possible to reduce a lot of trouble by considering welding in advance.

Sioux City travels around the clock at the shipyard, the Dahua Laboratory, and the headquarters of the Dahua Group. Fortunately, other companies have entered the formalization, Setan Oilfield, Dahua Gas Company, Dahua Transportation Company have a sound organizational system and management team, although Dahua Petrochemical is in the process of further expansion, but the steps and procedures are determined, there is no part that Sioux City must participate in. Not to mention the joint venture Deppon water heater. Shu Hao has long developed it into a cash cow, and they are more involved in dealing with Shenzhen Development Bank.

The time saved, Sioux City contributed all of its efforts to these 9 ships.

Their total pricing may be only $500 million, and their profits may be less than $100 million, but they represent a door, and once completed, Dahua Shipbuilding will be more than just a supplier of offshore oil equipment. It will also be a major supplier of civilian vessels.

After all, it is enough to be proud of a shipbuilding company that can complete 300,000 tons in 9 months, and this will also be the best qualification of Dahua Shipbuilding.

But not everyone is optimistic about the future of Dahua Shipbuilding.

China in 1993. There is no such thing as the Internet. The only way people can get advice abroad is through the mass media, and everyone knows what they say on TV and in the newspapers. The better colleges and universities can occasionally get some periodicals and TV clips from abroad, but they are also popular internally.

Even high-ranking cadres of the state, if they do not deliberately search, it is difficult to determine the degree of industrial development abroad, and they only know that they are stronger than the Chinese themselves.

Against this backdrop, Dahua has made a bid for ships that foreigners are afraid to bid, bringing not only cheers from shipyard workers, but also concerns from suppliers.

If Dahua Shipyard fails to deliver the goods on time, the compensation can make it go bankrupt directly. When the time comes, if the Dahua Group is not saved and let it go out of business, what will it do? There is no need to repay the debts, and many suppliers are unwilling to bear the arrears of payments.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the end of the year, many suppliers have come to the door to ask for the settlement of previous payments.

Among them, there are not only small suppliers who owe hundreds of thousands, but also large enterprises that owe tens of millions. In the first two days, the supply chain department did not take it seriously, Dahua's cash flow was abundant, and it has always been very happy to give money.

However, when the payment application for the undue due amount reached 20% in just a few days, Zhang Chao finally woke up.

While arranging for his men to understand the situation, he drove to the shipyard to report the situation to Sioux City.

Recently, Sioux City has been working at Dahua Laboratory or Dahua Group headquarters in the morning, and at the shipyard in the afternoon.

The process of shipbuilding is complicated, and the preparations in the early stage alone are headaches, especially the procurement and other content, if Su Cheng is present, directly approve and sign, which can obviously make the progress a lot faster.

Zhang Chao drove by himself, and then walked along the road by the river, and shouted when he encountered a place where the crowd was concentrated: "Is Su Dong here?"

It didn't take long to see Sioux City.

Several engineers are surrounding Sioux City to determine the machinery. Each of them wrote a report and was arguing.

Li Cang and several members of the purchasing committee sat on the maza. Besiege the city and listen to their reasoning.

Although Zhang Chao is an international student, he still feels depressed when he listens to terms such as "emergency fire pump", "weld size", and "insect-shaped pores".

He stood for two minutes, then desperately glanced at Yang Ming, pulled him to the back, and said about the payment application.

Yang Ming was startled at first and asked, "Is it a run?"

"We're not a bank. Not afraid of a run. Zhang Chao said in a fluttering voice: "I'm worried about something else." ”

"What?"

Zhang Chao didn't want to say it, but had to say: "There are so many suppliers, if they act independently, I'm afraid they will join forces." More than 300 suppliers have recently applied for payment, and once they stop supplying, Dahua Industrial's supply chain will be half paralyzed. ”

"What about the shipyard, will the shipyard be affected?" Yang Ming, as the director of the office, can participate in the confidential information, and knows that the most important thing for Dahua Industrial Group at present is the shipbuilding company. Other projects can withstand short-term pains, but shipyards that are working overtime to catch up with the schedule will be in pain. I had to die of pain.

Zhang Chao nodded slowly and said, "The supply chain of the shipyard has just been established. is the most vulnerable. ”

"Wait a minute, I'll inform Su Dong. Yang Ming turned around and whispered softly to Su Cheng.

Su Cheng, who has been the chairman of the board for 4 years, looked unchanged, and was stunned to finish the matter at hand, before he got up and said with a smile: "Let's rest for a while." ”

Leaving the engineer and the finance department to argue, Su Cheng simply took Zhang Chao to the riverside and asked in the wind: "How much is the total?"

"Dahua Shipbuilding has 120 million here, and it has only been a few days, and I am afraid that other companies will also be affected. Yang Ming said and said his guess.

Sioux City groaned for a moment. Asked, "What is the company with the largest withdrawal?"

"Shougang's steel structure model, 4 months ago. ”

"What is the contract payment period?"

"Eight months, four months to go. They were in a hurry, and the sales director of the other party was sitting in my office. Zhang Chao said with a solemn face: "I am afraid of beating wolves with hemp sticks." If you don't give it, I'm afraid that people will say that we Dahua have no money, and if you don't get it, it will really become a run. Moreover, it is our suppliers who ask for money. People also want their own money, but the time is a little earlier...... If I give it, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that the wait-and-see suppliers will come up and ask for money. It doesn't matter if you use the money or not, if you can hold the money in your hand early, I'm afraid that no one will refuse. ”

The payment period of half a year to one year is the industry rule. Because the payment period of heavy industry is already very long, it takes about a year to produce steel and other materials into ships, and shipowners often only pay a deposit and will not pay until they see the ship. Naturally, the shipyard will wait for the other party to pay before paying the upstream factory.

This system will not change slightly until the Internet age, but it will not become a drug trading model of paying for money and delivering goods in the other.

If Dahua pays the upstream company in advance, and the downstream company does not pay, it will be a situation where the mountain is empty, and if you are not careful, you will be grinded to death.

Therefore, after a moment of silence, Su Cheng decided: "The payment when due, the payment that is not due cannot be paid, and it must be in accordance with the contract. If we pay, BASF will also ask for the billions of dollars in equipment costs in advance, and we will not have to sit on wax. ”

"I see. Yang Ming was instructed, settled down, and said, "I'm afraid of bad rumors." ”

Su Cheng thought about it and said, "There is still a month to go before the New Year, so let's reply to the supplier first, and wait until next week, we will pay dividends in advance." Yang Ming, let the finance prepare cash. ”

"Cash, that's ......" Yang Ming was startled, halfway through speaking, lowered his voice, and said, "That's hundreds of millions of yuan." ”

"It's just a lot of it to have an effect. Su Cheng bowed his head and said: "In terms of security, there is always a way to solve it." ”

Dahua's dividend system, which gives generous rewards to employees with "special contributions", is similar in nature to equity incentives, but mainly for non-management, and its amount is calculated based on the group's profit in the previous year. As long as the company's profit exceeds 7%, the dividend will be paid, and the amount is about 30% of the excess. Based on the income of Dahua Industrial Group in 1992, this amount is not only hundreds of millions of yuan, but hundreds of millions of yuan, far exceeding the payment applied for by suppliers.

Zhang Chao was the first to understand, and said happily: "Let them see if we have money." I replied to them right away and invited them to our Spring Festival Gala. ”

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