Reborn Tokyo Golden Age

Bai Chuanfeng announced a resolution on the first day he took office as the president of Baichuan Electric. Starting from this month, all employees will change from a six-day work system to a five-day work system, with weekends on Saturdays and Sundays.

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

In 1979, the vast majority of companies in RB worked six days a week, and few companies implemented the two-day work system. Only a few giant companies have such benefits. Although everyone usually doesn't talk about it, they are actually envious of it.

So once this welfare policy was announced, everyone's favor for the young president Sang increased steadily.

Raising the salary of the supervisor and providing benefits to the employees is the first step for Bai Chuanfeng to win people's hearts. 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 Denki has already emptied all his family assets.

So after much deliberation, only the weekend system can mobilize everyone's enthusiasm.

He paid no extra cost, and employees got real benefits. There are four extra days of vacation every month for no reason, and the salary remains the same, so that is a salary increase, a win-win situation.

At this time, Bai Chuanfeng was sitting in the president's office on the third floor, looking up various production materials of the former Watanabe Electric in detail, and his brows became more and more frowned the more he looked at it.

The situation was even worse than I imagined, and some were 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 per month. However, the profit per unit sold is only 830 yen, which means our profit The rate is only 1% of the selling price?"

Bai Chuanfeng raised his head and looked at Hasegawa Hiroshi standing in front of him in disbelief. The latter is still the head of the marketing department of Baichuan Electric.

"Hay" 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 Sang, he finally said nothing.

"Hasegawa-san, you are the director of the marketing department of Baichuan Electric. If you have any questions or suggestions about the company's operations, please be sure to speak up. Our goals are the same."

Bai Chuanfeng saw Hasegawa's hesitation to speak just now, so he simply put down the report in his hand, and decided to have a straight talk with him.

Seeing that Bai Chuanfeng's gaze did not seem to be fake, Hasegawa Hiroda dared to speak directly, "President Bai Chuan, the cost of our Blackstone record player is too high, at least 30% higher than the cost of similar products!"

"Huh?" Bai Chuanfeng picked up the report in his hand and compared it. Sure enough, the cost of materials alone was as high as 50,000 yen. In addition to labor costs, taxes, etc., a vinyl record player must guarantee an ex-factory price of at least 69,000 yen in order to guarantee profitability.

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

Seeing the figure of 69,000, Bai Chuanfeng took a breath, it would be hell to make a profit with such a high cost.

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

In other words, the Blackstone turntable has no pricing power, because it is not a monopoly product. Once the price is set too high, consumers will turn to other products.

"Why has the cost of materials soared since this year?" Bai Chuanfeng noticed that since 1979, the cost of components such as motors and motors has suddenly increased by more than half than before, which is very unreasonable.

Small parts such as motors are not monopoly products, and they cannot be said to be like the memory of later generations, because the price of the factory building is on fire or something.

Hasegawa Hiroshi was waiting for this sentence, and when he got the talk, he immediately began to pour out his bitterness.

It turned out that it all started with the little Watanabe, who had no interest in running the business since he took over Watanabe Electric, but was very interested in stocks and bonds.

Under the introduction of a good friend, he 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 collect more cash, I came into contact with Changyin and Inagawa Club under 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.

Don't you think it's a coincidence? It's right to take care of your friend's business.

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

Hasegawa Hiroshi is the person in charge of the marketing department. He was the first person Ko Watanabe scolded when the profits of the Blackstone record player decreased. But he never listened to Hasegawa's explanation.

Seeing that the new president took the initiative to ask, Hasegawa immediately said everything like beans in a bamboo tube.

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

He is even a little lucky now that Kazumasa Watanabe didn't bankrupt the Blackstone jukebox.

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

Bai Chuanfeng put down the report and sighed. "Notify the heads of the various ministries that we will have a meeting together in thirty minutes. The Blackstone jukebox can't go on like this."

Seeing the back of Hasegawa leaving, Bai Chuanfeng got up and stretched, and the reports and information became bigger and bigger the more he looked.

He left his desk and went to the window, outside the window was the sunny Tama River. A little bit of white sail, three tourists.

Today is the last day of June. In the hot summer, there are many people swimming in the river with swimming rings.

The scenery here is very good, Bai Chuanfeng smiled, and this will be his territory from now on. Although there are thousands of clues and broken things, at least there is a foundation for everything to start from scratch.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, let's go first, let's be happy with the pain.

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

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

Seeing that everyone was here, Bai Chuanfeng stood up with a serious expression, "Everyone, I already have a general understanding of the current situation of the Blackstone jukebox. To be honest, it is not optimistic."

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

Shirakawa Feng turned to the left, "Yamaguchi-san, who was the supplier of motors and needles for Blackstone record players before last year?"

"The motor is from Omron, and the stylus is supplied by Kyocera." Yamaguchi blurted out the answer without even thinking about it. He knows everything about the Blackstone record player like the back of his hand.

"How is the product performance? Has the price changed over the past year?" Bai Chuanfeng rubbed his chin and asked.

Yamaguchi's eyes brightened slightly, "The reliability is very good, and the stylus can work stably for at least 4-5 years under normal use. The motor motor, Omron guarantees a service life of 10 years, and the data we tested is generally not bad.

As for the price, it has slightly increased by about 3% on the basis of last year, and the overall change is not significant. "

Bai Chuanfeng nodded, "Starting tomorrow, the motors will be replaced by Omron, and the stylus will also be purchased by Kyocera."

"Hay!" Yamaguchi responded loudly.

The first decision Bai Chuanfeng made when he joined the Blackstone jukebox made everyone see his swiftness and resoluteness.

He didn't even want to ask the name of the current supplier. As for the reason for changing the supplier, everyone knew it well without telling him.

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