Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis

Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis Chapter 43

2022-04-02

Chapter 43 The Dilemma of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce

As a partner of the local business leader Seacliff Chamber of Commerce, the Qingning Chamber of Commerce Commerce's booth is very large.

Focusing on maritime trade suppliers, the Qingning Chamber of Commerce has established a huge supply chain network in more than 30 major commercial cities east of Central Plains.

In Central Plains, where an efficient third-party logistics system has not been established, Li Qingning was able to build this supply chain network in a few years. Obviously, he has worked hard. This is also the whole Qingning Chamber of Commerce's most important capital.

However, the supply chain network has numerous branches. To manage this supply chain network well requires a very high level of management and finance. Although Li Qingning's theoretical foundation is not bad, in practice, it is still exposed one after another. Many management level issues.

As a private equity fund manager, although Yang Lu has never actually been in charge of a commercial enterprise, he has a lot of experience in in-depth research.

After listening to Li Qingning's explanation and complaining for about an hour, he realized that the management of Qingning Chamber of Commerce is not a general problem, but a serious problem that threatens the existence of Chamber of Commerce. !

In all fairness, the management of the culture Chamber of Commerce is much easier than the management of modern enterprises.

Although mortals are not bound by Heavenly Dao's merit system, and violations of laws and regulations cannot be completely avoided, the huge gap in battle strength between cultivators and mortals is itself an invisible deterrent to illegal behaviors and increases the chances of breaking the law cost.

Li Qingning's martial power value has just been seen. If the mortal clerk of Qingning Chamber of Commerce dares to corrupt, he must be ready to be slapped to death by Li Qingning. The program does not have to go.

Earth's corporate boss doesn't have such an awesome battle strength!

Although the cultivator's powerful battle strength can greatly reduce the difficulty of management, the martial power value cannot solve all problems.

Management is an esoteric knowledge that combines practice and theory. Many people who are deeply poisoned by Internet articles think that they can become leaders by going back to ancient times, but you let them lead 50 colleagues on a trip abroad , will find that they can't handle it at all. The supply chain management of Qingning Chamber of Commerce is a particularly troublesome thing.

In the Nine Provinces cultivation world, each great cultivator has its own sphere of influence.

If another Chamber of Commerce wants to do business in Seacliff City, it must have the permission of Jiang Hua'an. If the Seacliff Chamber of Commerce wants to do business in other places, it also needs the permission of the local culture force.

The problem is that the Seacliff Chamber of Commerce exports goods from all over Central Plains, and imports goods to be exported to all parts of Central Plains. It wants to deal with thousands of local forces in Central Plains, obviously. It's not something that a local culture sect like Seacliff Sect can do. Even if they have the ability, they don't have the time and energy.

The purpose of Seacliff Chamber of Commerce suppliers and distributors is to manage the relationship for the Seacliff Chamber of Commerce.

Most of these suppliers and distributors have cultural forces from all over the world as their backers. It is by relying on them to help settle the local forces in Central Plains that the Seacliff Chamber of Commerce can expand its business territory to the entire Central. Plains continent.

The Qingning Chamber of Commerce can emerge in a short period of time, mainly because Li Qingyang's face is big enough.

All local forces did not dare to risk offending the Li Family Eldest Young Lady, so they could collectively acquiesce to Li Qingning's establishment of stable supply channels in more than 30 major cities in just a few years.

As a supplier of Seacliff Chamber of Commerce, the core department of Qingning Chamber of Commerce is naturally the purchasing department.

Qingning Chamber of Commerce's annual merchandise purchases are amazing. No matter which place Chamber of Commerce this purchase order is sent to, it will involve huge profit sharing issues. Therefore, just like Earth Enterprises, the purchasing department's Corruption is a chronic problem for Chamber of Commerce.

Although Li Qingning's work style seems unreliable, but after all, he came from an academic Aristocratic Family, and his theoretical foundation is still acceptable.

She is well aware that the purchasing department is the hardest hit area of corruption, so she uses the classic decentralization theory to divide the purchasing department into two independent departments: strategic purchasing (sourcing) and actual purchasing (buyer) to check and balance each other.

She thought she could sit back and relax with this arrangement, but she soon discovered that her Chamber of Commerce's profit margins were significantly thinner than those of her peers.

If it weren't for the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, who only needed to raise her as a Boss, and if it were replaced by other large-scale cultivation forces, to start such a non-profitable Chamber of Commerce, I am afraid that the entire Sect would have to drink it long ago. Northwest wind.

Since everyone purchases goods from all over the Seacliff Chamber of Commerce to supply the Seacliff Chamber of Commerce, and the bidding price of the Seacliff Chamber of Commerce is the same, it is obvious that there is a problem within the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

According to Li Qingning's judgment, the source of the problem is probably the purchasing department. But no matter how she pursued it, she could never find any substantive evidence.

What she said to Yang Lu earlier as "a troublesome thing" was actually referring to this problem.

However, in Yang Lu's view, the corruption problem in the purchasing department is only a symptom at most, and it reflects the unreasonable design of the entire Qingning Chamber of Commerce system, which is definitely not something that can be solved by catching a few corrupt elements. .

Even in modern companies, it is not easy to eliminate corruption in the purchasing department.

The Chief-In-Charge of the purchasing department of China's modern family business, most of them are the chairman's younger brother, wife, little brother-in-law, aunt, nephew and niece, father-in-law, mother-in-law and so on. But even so, it is still difficult for family businesses to prevent family members from stealing and stealing.

Li Qingning is a bare-bones commander, and he doesn't even have a reliable family helper. It is hard to imagine how difficult it is to prevent corruption in procurement.

From a rational point of view, what Yang Lu should do now is to push this trouble away immediately, but seeing the beautiful Eldest Young Lady in front of her, the more she said, the more aggrieved, and even tears were about to fall. , he eventually changed his mind.

Such a beautiful beauty asks for help in person, is it still a man if you don't help?

He took a deep breath and said, "Eldest Young Lady, do you know the root cause of the problem in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce?"

Li Qingning just shook his head blankly, Some people said bitterly: "I don't know... I clearly designed the management system of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce according to the theory of the culture management master Luo Shen senior, but why does this problem still occur?"

Even Yang Lu has heard the name of cultivation management master Luo Shen. This 500-year-old Immeasurable Sword Sect Law Enforcement Hall Supreme Elder is the original author of the first edition of the "Central Plains Sect Regulations", and the cover of each edition of the "Central Plains Sect Regulations" since then has this Elder printed on it. Luo's first name.

Elder Luo's book "Sect Management - My Theory and Practice in Immeasurable Sword Sect" in his later years is even known as the Bible of the entire Nine Provinces cultivation world Sect management field, and each Great Sect Sect Master One in hand.

Although Elder Luo had exhausted his life essence and died 300 years ago, his management ideas still have a profound impact on this continent.

Yang Lu has not read Elder Luo's academic works, but through the legislative principles disclosed in the "Central Plains Sect Management Regulations", he can also see that this Old Senior is definitely a game theory and mechanism design. Top experts in the field.

Seeing Li Qingning's dazed look, Yang Lu sighed said: "Management is the science of managing people. While good institutional arrangements are important, the people who implement the system are also very important. Ancient Era has A management master named Steve Jobs once said that the most important part of a business is actually recruiting, as long as you recruit the right people, you don’t even need to use management skills.”

Heard Yang Li Qingning's face suddenly collapsed after Lu's remarks: "This Joe senior is right, but our Qingning Chamber of Commerce only has so many crooked melons and jujubes available, what should we do?"

(end of this chapter)