Chapter 123: Money is tight
After negotiating the price of small C with Li Long, Fang Yi said, "Li Long, how is the communication with various electronic component manufacturers, can they guarantee on-time delivery?"
Li Long said, "Mr. Fang, there is no problem, we have signed a more detailed contract with them, and they will pay a large amount of money if they breach the contract."
Fang Yi nodded and said, "That's good, don't be careless, in which link there was a mistake, and have you been in contact with the courier company in Guangzhou and the postal service?", in 2000, Huaxia's domestic 4 links and one reach are far less developed than now, but it has begun to take shape, in the city-level city, the delivery rate is still very high.
Li Long shook his head and said, "I'm sorry Mr. Fang, I didn't pay attention to this aspect of affairs."
Fang Yi waved his hand, this can't be blamed on Li Long, because of course the task he gave him was to seriously develop the small C, and he didn't need to worry about other things, including logistics affairs, and said to Li Long, "It's okay, you still seriously research and develop the small C, to ensure that there are no problems in all aspects of his work, and after the product is on the market, your research center will continue to develop the next generation of small C2, and I will leave the rest to others to operate."
Fang Yi walked out of Li Long's office, found Chen Zhao and said, "Brother Zhao, now our work will focus on Xiao C, so the work will be busy in the near future, and the work in Chengdu is now stable, if there is a need, I am ready to transfer Brother Chun over to help, do you think this is necessary?"
Chen Zhao thought for a while and said, "If there are not too many things in Chengdu, I think it would be good to let Brother Chun come over, there are many things to deal with here, especially the frequent exchanges in terms of funds, and it is not good to have no one come over to grasp the overall situation."
"Okay, I'll call Brother Chun in a while, and ask him to deal with the affairs in Chengdu and come over to help as soon as possible" Fang Yi said and said, "We now have a contract with Foxconn to finalize, and we have completed the preliminary work of Xiao C, so your work direction will be transferred to the later work of Xiao C, first, product quality, although this aspect should be taken care of by Li Long, but I still hope that you can spare a certain amount of energy to assist him in completing this work, because in this regard, we cannot afford to lose; In terms of packaging design, because all of our small C sales this time are sold online, we will use express delivery. Now we need to send express delivery to the outside of the goods to set a packaging bag, which is very time-consuming and laborious, so we need to take this aspect into account when designing the outer packaging of the product, and design the outer packaging of our small C to be a shock-resistant and waterproof, so that we can directly paste the express bill on the outer packaging of the product to complete the packaging of the goods; In terms of logistics, we are in one to two days after the listing, conservatively estimated that we will send out 100,000 small C, now Guangzhou's four links and one reach is still beginning to take shape, you contact them in advance, understand their delivery price and delivery scope, if they can be delivered to the local area, try to make them four evenly distribute the delivery business, if these four can not be delivered to the area, by the postal service, and ultimately to ensure that all orders can be delivered to consumers"
Chen Zhao recorded while listening, "Mr. Fang, I know, I will follow these tasks throughout the process."
Fang Yi thought about it, but he was still not very relieved, and continued: Brother Zhao, in terms of personnel, you have to arrange reasonably, then you can use temporary workers, if you can use the machine to complete it, do not use manual, if you can do things simple, do not be complicated, such as when our express documents are printed, you let Zhao Li's team make a small program, so that it can control the printer can be automatically printed, so that we can save a lot of manpower, and add a regional identification function in the small program, you can distribute the same area order to the same printer, which can also reduce the workload of the express company and improve the efficiency of our entire product distribution”
Chen Zhao felt that Fang Yi was too concerned about Xiao C's matter, and he used to directly tell them to do this kind of thing, and he didn't care about the specific operation details, and said, "Mr. Fang, I will lead the logistics team to hold a working meeting, and we will discuss all aspects in detail to ensure the smooth delivery of the first batch of goods from Xiao C."
Fang Yi said again, "I plan to go back to Chengdu tomorrow to deal with the affairs of the Chengdu company, and I will return in about a week, we have booked the first batch of orders for 100,000 small C, but I believe that the market for small C is far more than this data, so you need to cooperate with Li Long to communicate with all suppliers, so that they can do a good job of the next batch of electronic components in advance, so that our foundry can continue to produce and ensure market supply."
Chen Zhao said, "Mr. Fang, I contacted Brother Chun this morning, after paying the advance payment of a batch of electronic component suppliers, now we have no money on the books of Century Technology Company, what do you think should be done?"
Fang Yi frowned when he heard Chen Zhao's words, now the computer company is being attacked by Keno Technology, so that the performance that could have sold nearly 100 units per day was directly cut in half, which seriously affected his cash flow, "Brother Zhao, do you estimate how much more money we need to produce the first batch of goods?"
Chen Zhao took out his notebook and looked at it and said, "This morning, I made a statistic with Brother Chun, to produce this batch of products, we need to pay 20 million yuan for the purchase of electronic components alone, and if you count the costs of packaging design and production, at least 22 million yuan"
Hearing that so much money is needed, Fang Yi also secretly smacked his tongue It seems that there is still only the use of the Hang Seng Index Futures, and Fang Yi also needs to invest in a large area of advertising offline next, and to prepare for the listing of small C, he also needs at least 3 million yuan, so it is conservatively estimated that it will take 25 million yuan, and then said to Fang Yi, "Brother Zhao, you go and get busy, I will find a way to deal with the problem of funds, but the few things I just told you cannot be relaxed, and they need to be completed with quality and quantity."
Fang Yi took out his notebook, connected to the network cable, and checked the current point situation of the Hang Seng Index, if the price can Fang Yi is ready to close a part of the contract, in exchange for a certain amount of funds, but turn on the computer and see, the entire Hang Seng Index is still in a volatile position, although the entire contract has made some money, it is generally only a few million, and these millions should be a drop in the bucket for Fang Yi's current capital needs.
Turning off the computer, Fang Yi walked out of the research center, the evening breeze blew, making Fang Yi feel refreshed, and took out his mobile phone to call Zheng Rongjun, "Rongjun, how are things busy in Hong Kong?"
Zheng Rongjun said, "Mr. Fang, the matter of office space leasing and decoration has been dealt with, and the leasing of two houses has also been handled.
"Very good, then you can deal with these things over there with peace of mind, by the way, you can help me book a ticket back to Chengdu tomorrow morning"
Back in Chengdu, Fang Yi took a taxi directly from the airport to Sichuan University, at the gate of Sichuan University, Fang Yi saw Ruth who had been waiting for a long time, and as soon as he saw Ruth, he rushed over and wanted to give Fang Yi a big hug.
Fang Yi hurriedly stretched out his hand against Ruth's shoulders and said, "Ruth, this is China, not London, hugging is not a standard action to greet here."
Ruth said with a bitter face, "Fang, then do you have anything to do with me?"
Fang Yi took out another small C engineering machine in his bag and handed it to Ruth, Ruth looked at the beautiful little C in Fang Yi's hand, and said with bright eyes, "Fang, is this a gift you gave me?
Fang Yi spread his hands and said speechlessly, "Ruth, if I tell you that this is the product developed by my research center, do you believe it?, it is the unique MP3 player I told you when I first arrived in Guangzhou?"
Ruth picked up the headphones and stuffed them into her ear holes and said, "Wow, Fang, this earbud of yours is very curious, it is actually a plastic soft plug, so that when you listen to music, your ears will not hurt"
Fang Yi saw that his headphones were well received by the first customer, and said arrogantly, "Of course, this is developed by my research institute, and it has applied for a technical patent."
Ruth began to fiddle with the little C in her hand, Fang Yi interrupted her and said, "Ruth, you wait", said and stretched out her hands, took off the earphones on her ears and said, "This is the only engineering machine we have, and the mass production model will take almost two months to go on the market.
Ruth couldn't put it down and took the little C and said, "Of course there is no problem with this, I am glad, I will give you a detailed report on my use of it in half a month, by the way, what name did you give it, do you want me to help?"
Fang Yi glanced at her and said, "It's called Little C, if it's possible to help me publicize it, I'll sell it to Europe and the United States."
Leaving Sichuan University, Fang Yi returned to the East Garden of the University of Electronic Science and Technology, this is the first time he has returned to this place, Fang Yi called Ma Rui at the gate of the community and asked him to come down to pick him up, because he has not been here since he bought it, the decoration and decoration are completed by Ma Rui and Cao Xia, and he doesn't even have a key to enter the house now.
Ma Rui opened the unit door wearing a pair of cartoon-shaped cotton slippers, reached out and took the bag in Fang Yi's hand and said, "Why don't you call us when you come back, I'll go to the airport with Xiaoxia to pick you up."
Entering the door, Ma Rui squatted down, found the slippers specially purchased for Fang Yi from the shoe cabinet and helped him put them on, Fang Yi looked around and sat on the sofa, this is his home in Chengdu, reached out and put his arm around Ma Rui on his lap and said, "This house is really well decorated, although it is a little feminine"
Ma Rui said on his thigh, "You haven't made any effort, and you're embarrassed to pick and choose here."