Chapter 77: Supply Chain Crisis

After Su Youjie and Wu Lei resigned.

The leader of the product research and development team of Xinghai Company is served by Zhou Kun, the original deputy team leader...... Chen Jin was more at ease with him.

In addition, the personnel department is recently releasing recruitment information, recruiting a large number of technical personnel, including hardware engineers, software engineers, testing and other positions, a total of hundreds of people.

The treatment is very generous, with more than five years of work experience, the annual salary is million; For those with three to five years of work experience, the annual salary is 300,000-500,000; With less than three years of work experience but good ability, the annual salary is also about 200,000 yuan...... The salary is at the top level in the industry.

In addition, those who come to the interview will be reimbursed for all the travel expenses.

For a while, there were many applicants, and in just a few days, enough talents were recruited.

In other words, why does Xinghai Company recruit so many technicians?

The R&D project of "Wow Wow Robot 2.0" was officially launched.

That is, the research and development work of the second generation of Wow Wow robot has been officially launched.

At the project kick-off meeting, Chen Jin, president of Xinghai Company, put forward several key technical indicators——

1. The algorithm is upgraded, the cleaning mode is more intelligent, there is no need to clean ten times for the first time, there is no scene limit, and it is more convenient for users to use

2. Develop an "enterprise version" for enterprise units as an important supplement to the civilian version

3. Add wireless charging function, charging is safer

4. Increase the social mode, add the voice package of "joy", "anger" and "happiness", and you can perform singing and dancing

5. Add obsessive-compulsive disorder mode and clean up garbage as soon as there is garbage on the floor

In addition, the second generation of Wow Wow Robot will be subdivided into products, providing "low-end", "mid-end", "high-end" three configuration versions, the corresponding prices are 3000 yuan, 5000 yuan, 8000 yuan...... Make friends with all consumer classes.

And the various improvements of Wow Wow Robot 2.0, compared to the ultimate form of Wow Wow Robot in Chen Jin's mind, are just a regular upgrade of "squeezing toothpaste", and he still has many killer functions that have not been added.

Even so, the 2.0 version of the Wow Wow Robot still has strong market competitiveness.

At least those friends who are ready to copycat (plagiarize) the wow wow robot generation can be left behind again and establish a solid lead.

When the friends catch up again, it is almost time for Wow Robot 3.0 to come out.

If some of his peers have the ability to defy the sky, he can also hold high the legal weapon to defend his interests...... In terms of intellectual property rights, the state has strengthened the protection of intellectual property rights in recent years.

In short, in terms of market competition, Chen Jin is not afraid of the threat of his peers at all.

Coupled with excellent product quality and the support of a large number of fans, Xinghai Company will firmly occupy the vast majority of the market share of sweeping robots.

In addition, the R&D cycle of Wow Wow Robot 2.0 is about 3 months, and if there is any technical bottleneck in the middle, Chen Jin will solve it.

So......

Steady.

It can only be described in two words.

Therefore, in his spare time, the most Chen Jin does is to calculate how much money he can make.

How much money can he make?

Is it really the same as his own calculations, for each Wow Wow robot, he can probably earn 800 yuan?

A wry smile.

Chen Jin sighed and said: "It's hard to do entities! ”

"If you knew earlier, you should have investigated it in advance, figured out the cost of each link, and couldn't be too naïve and take everything for granted."

Take the notoriously violent Fruit mobile phone as an example, its latest Fruit XS Max, the highest version is priced at 10,0003, but what about its comprehensive hardware cost? However, it is only more than 3,500 points, and the hardware cost accounts for less than 30% of the selling price, and it seems that it can make 70% of the profit.

But after deducting a series of costs such as R&D, assembly, software, advertising, distribution, taxation, etc., such a fruit mobile phone, the fruit company, can only get a net profit of about 3,000 in the end.

That is, the hardware cost is 1, the intermediate cost is 2, and the profit at hand is 1...... The profit is only 25% of the price of the phone.

The above is the mobile phone industry, and the example is still a fruit known for its huge profits, as for other mobile phone manufacturers, the net profit margin of 5% is excellent.

So what is the actual net profit margin of the wow wow robot developed by Xinghai Company?

Chen Jin asked his professional mother to help him calculate.

Eliminate the incomparably complex computational process.

Excluding all costs, the net profit margin of Wow Wow Robot is 15%...... The price is set at 3699 yuan.

That is, for each Wow Wow robot, Chen Jin can earn 555 yuan.

In addition, in the first batch of 500,000 wow robots, Chen Jin gave users a discount of 300 yuan and a subsidy of 15 yuan to Lingfeng Precision Company (after the yield rate went up, the subsidy has been cancelled).

In other words, in the first batch of 500,000 Wow robots, Chen Jin only earned 240 yuan per unit, earning a total of 120 million yuan.

This is also the result of Xinghai Company's savings in advertising, R&D, distribution and other intermediate links!

It's not even as good as Jin Shengyuan jewelry store, which earns more than a few hundred kilograms of gold a month.

"Make a friend, really make a friend!"

The difficulty of the real economy can be seen from this!

However, Chen Jin can only continue to do this, yes, the money is not much, but at least it is practical and stable, and his heart is full and energetic.

In addition, taking the route of small profits and quick turnover, let Wow Wow Robot enter thousands of households, achieve total sales of more than 20 million units, and then multiply by 555, he can also become a billionaire.

However, a phone call immediately punctured his good dream.

On the phone, Wang Quanlong, chairman of Lingfeng Precision, said in an extremely panicked tone:

"Mr. Chen, there is a big problem in the supply chain!"

"A few days ago, I sent someone to Japan to negotiate and order a batch of brushless motors and moving parts of the robotic arm, and each placed an order of 3.3 million pieces, the contract has been negotiated, and the price is more preferential than the previous batch of goods, and after the contract is signed, it will be shipped immediately."

"But I don't know what's going on just now, the negotiators of the two Japanese companies suddenly turned their faces, saying that they can only supply 1 million goods, and the price is required to increase by 50%, and if they don't agree, they will terminate the cooperation!"

"Mr. Chen, this must be some domestic peers, united with Japanese devils to make ghosts! They want to kill us by restricting our supply chain! Wow Wow Robot has been pre-sold 2 million units, if the supply chain is not available at this time, we will fall into great passivity! ”

"Mr. Chen, this is a big crisis we are facing!"

What the?

Chen Jin was taken aback!

"Don't panic, don't panic!"

He quickly calmed down and asked: "Isn't there another supplier that can replace the brushless motor and robotic arm moving parts you said?" Isn't there a company producing it in China? ”

"Nope!"

Wang Quanlong shook his head and said: "There are several companies in China that can produce brushless motors, but the quality cannot reach the level of Niskoku Yaskawa motors, and there are big differences in service life, speed and stability, which cannot replace Nissan for the time being; There are few companies in China that do this for the moving parts of the robotic arm, and the quality is too far apart, we have searched all over the world, and I am afraid that we cannot find a second supplier other than Fanaco. ”

"Mr. Chen, we were too careless, this time, we were really beaten to seven inches!"

Speaking of this, Wang Quanlong was heartbroken: "Why, why are some traitors in China who can't compete fairly in a down-to-earth manner, why do they always have to cheap outsiders?" ”

Chen Jin, who was on the other end of the phone, was silent for a while.

There was no disgrace and frustration on his face like Wang Quanlong.

Just muttered, "Is it really irreplaceable......

His eyes suddenly glowed: "I don't think so!" ”