On his first day as president of Shirakawa Electric, Kaede Shirakawa announced a resolution to change the six-day work week to a five-day work week for all employees from this month, with Saturdays and Sundays off.

As soon as this decision was passed down, the workers in the workshop cheered.

In 1979, the vast majority of RB companies had a six-day work week, and there were only a few companies that implemented a two-day holiday system. Only a few giant companies have such benefits, and although everyone usually doesn't say it, they are actually envious in their hearts.

Therefore, as soon as this welfare policy was announced, everyone's good impression of the young president Sang rose slowly.

Raising the salary of the supervisor and giving benefits to the employees is the first step for Shirakawa Kaede to win the hearts of the people. In fact, he also wants to be simple and rude, and all employees will directly increase their wages.

However, the landlord's family has no surplus food, and the purchase of Watanabe Electric has emptied all his family funds.

So come to think of it, only the two-day holiday system can mobilize everyone's enthusiasm.

He didn't pay any extra costs, and the employees got real benefits. There are four more days of vacation per month, and the salary remains the same, which is a salary increase, a win-win situation.

At this time, Shirakawa Kaede was sitting in the president's office on the third floor, consulting in detail the various production materials of the former Watanabe Motor, and the more he looked at it, the more frowning his brows became.

The situation is even worse than I imagined, and some are even shocking.

"Hasegawa-san, the retail price of our Blackstone record player in the market is 83,000 yen, and we can ship about 120 units a month. But the profit for each unit sold is only 830 yen, which means that our profit margin is only 1% of the selling price? ”

Shirakawa Kaede looked up in disbelief at Hiroshi Hasegawa, who was still the head of the marketing department of Shirakawa Electric, who was standing in front of him.

"Hai" Hasegawa Hiroshi lowered his head in shame, he wanted to explain a few words, but because he didn't understand the character of the young president, San, he didn't say anything in the end.

"Hasegawa-san, you are the head of the marketing department of Shirakawa Electric. If you have any questions or suggestions about the company's operation, please be sure to say it, and our goal is the same. ”

Shirakawa Kaede saw Hasegawa's desire to speak just now, so he simply put down the report in his hand and decided to talk to him straight to the point.

Seeing that Shirakawa Kaede's gaze did not seem to be fake, Hasegawa Hirodai had the courage to speak directly, "President Shirakawa, the cost of our Blackstone record player is too high, at least 30% higher than the cost of similar products!" ”

"Huh?" Shirakawa Kaede picked up the report in his hand and compared it, and sure enough, the cost of materials alone was as high as 50,000 yen. Combined with labor costs, taxes, etc., a vinyl record player can guarantee a factory price of at least 69,000 yen to ensure profitability.

Although the retail price is 83,000 yen, the distributors and retailers take at least 15% of the profits. This way Blackstone record players can enter their channels and retailers will have an incentive to recommend products to customers.

Seeing the figure of 69,000, Shirakawa Feng gasped, it would be hellish that such a high cost could be profitable.

The market positioning of Blackstone record players is only low-end, and the pricing of 83,000 is the price range of most low-end vinyl record players in the market.

In other words, Blackstone turntables have no pricing power because they are not monopolistic products. Once the price is set too high, consumers will turn around and choose other products.

"Why has the cost of materials skyrocketed since this year?" Shirakawa noticed that starting in 1979, the cost of these parts for motors and motors suddenly increased by more than half compared to before, which was unreasonable.

These small parts of the motor are not monopoly products, and they can't be said to be like the memory of later generations, because the price of the plant fire or something will rise at will.

Hasegawa Hiroshi was waiting for this sentence, and when he got the talk, he immediately began to pour bitter water.

It turns out that everything has to start with the little Watanabe, who has no intention of running since he took over Watanabe Denki, but is very interested in stock speculation and bonds.

Under the introduction of a fox friend and dog friend, he recklessly entered the stock market alone. In less than three months, he spent all his savings, and then paid attention to the company's book funds.

Later, in order to get more cash, I came into contact with Changyin and Inagawa Society through the introduction of a friend. The premise is that it happens that his friend has several relatives who make small parts such as motors and stylus.

You see, this is not a coincidence, and it is also appropriate to take care of your friend's business.

But Watanabe, who never cared about this, didn't know that the prices of these parts suppliers introduced by friends were generally about half higher than before.

Hiroshi Hasegawa is the head of the marketing department, and the profits of the Blackstone record player have decreased, and he is the first person to be scolded by Watanabe. But he never listened to Hasegawa's explanations.

Now seeing that the new president took the initiative to ask, Hasegawa immediately poured beans into a bamboo tube, and said everything in 1510.

After listening to Hasegawa's slightly complaining accusation, Shirakawa Kaede didn't know what to say to that little Watanabe.

He is even a little glad that Kazumasa Watanabe didn't go bankrupt with the Blackstone record player.

At least on paper, it's still profitable. Although it is only about 100,000 yen, it is not as high as the monthly salary of the workshop employees. It's also magical...

Shirakawa Kaede put down the report and sighed. "Inform the heads of the ministries that let's have a meeting together in thirty minutes, the Blackstone record player can't go on like this."

Looking at the back of Hasegawa leaving, Shirakawa Kaede got up and stretched, report information or something, the more he looked at it, the bigger his head became.

He left his desk and went to the window, which looked out on the sunny Tama River. A little white sail, three or two tourists.

Today is the last day of June, and on a hot summer day, there is no shortage of people swimming in the river with swimming rings.

The scenery here is very good, Shirakawa Kaede smiled, this place will be his own territory in the future. Although there are thousands of things, and there are some broken points, at least there is a foundation for everything to start from scratch.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, so let's be happy and painful.

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Thirty minutes later, all the executives of Shirakawa Electric gathered again, and an assistant Komatsu took minutes of the meeting.

It's a pity that the summer vacation hasn't officially started yet, and Asuka Kobayashi hasn't been in place yet.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Shirakawa Kaede got up with a serious expression, "Everyone, I already have a general understanding of the current situation of the Blackstone Record Player, to be honest, it's not optimistic. ”

Everyone below was silent, and everyone saw this, but no one dared to mention it before.

Shirakawa Kaede turned to the left-hand side, "Yamaguchi-san, which supplier was the supplier of motors and stylus for Blackstone record players before last year?" ”

"The motor is from Omron, and the stylus is supplied by Kyocera." Yamaguchi didn't think about it, and blurted out the answer. He knows everything about Blackstone's record player.

"How is the product performing? Has the price changed over the year? Shirakawa Kaede rubbed his chin and asked.

Yamaguchi's eyes lit up slightly, "The reliability is very good, and the stylus can work stably for at least 4-5 years with normal use." The service life of the motor is 10 years, and the data we tested is roughly not bad.

As for the price, it has risen slightly by about 3% from last year, and there is not much change overall. ”

Shirakawa Kaede nodded, "From tomorrow, the motor will be replaced with Omron, and the stylus will also resume Kyocera's procurement." ”

"Hay!" Yamaguchi replied loudly.

The first resolution made by Shirakawa Kaede in the Blackstone record player let everyone see his vigorous and resolute actions.

He didn't even want to ask the name of the current supplier, and as for the reason for changing the supplier, he didn't say that everyone knew it.

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PS: Rest for two days first, and then change it three times, okay