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The next day, Huawei sent back a message saying that Mr. Ren would be back in the afternoon.

Zhou Buqi and Shi Jinglin seized the time and went to the branch of Xiaonei in the morning, mainly responsible for contacting major cosmetics agents and manufacturers.

The person in charge is Zhao Ying, who used to be the fashion editor of Southern Metropolis Daily.

From the beginning to the end, no one was sent from the headquarters, and it was all handled by her. She is a media person with a wide range of connections, and she has worked here for so many years, so she is familiar with it.

However, this is still against the rules.

Zhou Buqi's approval was mainly due to Shi Jinglin's suggestion. She called Sister Zhao to Zhao Ying, the sisters who grew up together when they were young. That leaves nothing to say.

Coupled with the fact that group buying of cosmetics was done so well later, no one mentioned it.

We talked all morning, but didn't say anything serious.

It's the two sisters reminiscing about their old friendship.

At the end, Zhao Ying said something serious.

"The current delivery method is too costly."

"how?"

"Most of the domestic cosmetics manufacturers are located in eastern Guangdong Province, and the agents of foreign brands are basically here. After receiving the goods, they have to be shipped to the capital, and then they are delivered by the capital. The route is almost repeated. a China."

Shi Jinglin nodded.

Definitely.

Cosmetics are loaded into carts on the eastern side of Guangdong and sent to the Jingdong warehouse in the capital. Then connect with the data on the Xiaonei network, contact Shentong, and send it by express delivery.

Maybe some of the orders came from the universities in eastern Guangdong province, and the goods had to be shipped back.

The reason for this operation is that it is more stable and less error-prone.

This is the same as a stand-alone database and a distributed database.

Oracle’s stand-alone structure means that a program runs 100% of the process on one machine, and it will be very stable; if it is a distributed structure, suppose a program runs on 4 machines, and each machine completes 25%. Efficiency has increased and speed has increased. The technical difficulty of multi-machine collaboration is very difficult, and the risk of errors is greatly increased.

The future must be distributed.

Research and develop higher technologies, maximize multi-machine collaboration, and minimize risks through technical and intelligent means...

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Don't worry, JD.com is doing it. It was stated at the board meeting at the beginning of the year that it will build two logistics centers in North China, East China, Central China, South China and Southwest China. Parts are ready for use."

Zhao Ying asked: "Is there any effect?"

Shi Jinglin rushed to say: "In the future, you don't need to send all the goods to the capital, and distribute them directly to the five storage centers. The universities in East China will all ship from East China, and the universities in Southwest China will all ship from Shipping from the southwest side. It saves efficiency.”

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Yes, it is equivalent to distributed."

Zhao Ying was a little surprised, "Is it possible to divide it into so many pieces? I thought... My initial thought was to ship the goods directly to the whole country from the east of Guangdong. It's not that the post office and the postal company want Have you separated? The spring of the domestic express delivery industry is coming, and it is no problem to hand over the business to SF Express.”

If the goods are shipped directly in eastern Guangdong, there is no need to transport the goods all the way to the capital, which costs twice. Bringing the model from the capital over and cooperating with SF Express can do a good job as well.

Of course, Zhou Buqi couldn't agree, "Shentong has cooperated with Xiaonei for so long, how can we just throw it away? With JD.com's ability, it may not be able to handle too many divisions in a short period of time. I will discuss it with him later. Start first in the capital, Shanghai and Pengcheng. The capital and Shanghai will continue to cooperate with STO, and you have a good relationship with SF Express in the south, so you can find them.”

Zhao Ying was overjoyed, but then hesitated, "Decentralized operations are afraid of mistakes. Once the data is confused, North China, East China, and South China are not well coordinated, and there will be missing orders, wrong orders, and even repeated shipments."

Shi Jinglin nodded lightly, "It's really difficult to judge some border areas. It is feasible to send from North China, and it is also feasible to send from East China, which requires particularly careful data processing and distribution. Once it goes wrong, it will be a big problem. And, if There is not enough goods here in North China, so it needs to be reissued from East China, and special care must be taken in the process of information docking."

Zhou Buqi said: "It's really not easy to build a complete collaborative network, and I don't know if JD.com can do it. I guess it will have to be checked manually. There is no rush in advance, just do it according to the old model, and don't change it lightly. I’ll discuss it with Jingdong later.”

Jingdong logistics is definitely no problem.

After it is completed, its efficiency ranks first in the world, and Amazon logistics can only rank second.

The traditional express delivery model is to concentrate on a certain unit and deliver to the whole country. There must be too many repeated routes in the process.

JD Logistics and Amazon Logistics adopt distributed collaborative thinking, mobilizing multiple units to do one thing at the same time. That is to say, through intelligent calculation, predict the user's purchase volume, disperse the goods in advance to different unit points such as ABCDEFG without repeated routes, and then deliver the goods nearby during the distribution process, with fast speed, high efficiency and low cost.

"Huh? Synergy?"

There was a flash of inspiration in Zhou Buqi's mind, as if he suddenly thought of something.

I feel that I have a little understanding of the purpose of Ziweixing.

In the era of information explosion, it is already difficult for traditional databases to handle massive amounts of information, which requires collaborative processing with distributed thinking; Distribute courier.

In the farming era, the economic paradigm of self-sufficiency and simple exchange within the village community can be described by "points"; in the industrial age, countless points are formed into "lines", and the classic economic paradigms are assembly lines, supply chains, and industrial chains.

What about the future?

It is to combine "lines" into "networks", that is, to use the synergistic effect of the Internet to integrate complex social and commercial relationships in a simple and efficient manner, improve social efficiency, reduce social costs, and build a more civilized social ecology.

Even before Zhou Buwei was reborn, this process was still in its infancy.

But this does not prevent him from making some judgments about the future.

If one day, unmanned driving is popularized, just like in science fiction movies, all the cars running on the street are self-driving cars. What is the maintenance of such a large project? It must be multi-level collaboration of higher technology.

Even if it is not that far away, at least it can solve the problem of inefficient traffic lights and greatly improve the urban traffic congestion. And all of this must be inseparable from calculations as fine as a millimeter, and the precipitation of massive data required behind it.

Get a little closer, let’s talk about the immediate thing, using Internet technology to play a network synergy effect, can also make more and more work online, software-based, and network-based, and can also greatly improve work efficiency.

For example, Yuanwei milk tea chain store.

At present, it is still operating offline. The daily accounts of each store manager are summarized, and the amount of cups and fruits shipped, as well as the average loss rate, are used to calculate whether the store manager has greedy behavior. There is still too much room for fraud. From time to time, the regional manager sends people to make unannounced visits.

This is traditional practice.

However, if an online and offline management system can be developed, each cup of milk tea sold must be recorded with a ticket, and all milk tea shops across the country can be integrated, saving the time for the regional manager to hand over offline business, and the management efficiency will be greatly improved .

You can list a ranking, update it in real time, and eliminate it at the end, which can stimulate the store managers to pursue performance crazily; you can also give online lectures to teach store managers good store opening strategies...

Through online management, costs are reduced while improving organizational efficiency and motivation.

What is Ziweixing going to do?

social contact? E-commerce? search?

Neither felt enough.

As the level rises, Zhou Buqi's ambitions grow bigger and bigger.

He has the advantage of foresight, can avoid almost all minefields, can step on all outlets, and even create outlets that call for the wind and rain.

Whether you can achieve it or not, set a high goal.

...

Zhou Buqi felt himself enlightened.

However, this matter is too complicated, and he still can't figure it out. He will have to study it for a few months after returning home and discuss it with more people.

In the afternoon, I went to Huawei.

I had lunch yesterday and was outside.

Zhou Buqi went to the Huawei campus for the first time.

Ho!

Big company!

It is more stylish than any company in the capital.

You have to take a shuttle bus, and there is a route map, just like a bus, with a stop. Gardens, lakes, pavilions, beautiful scenery, singing birds and fragrant flowers, the more it looks less like a company, it looks like a park.

Passing by the artificial lake, you can also see the black swans chasing the white ducks inside.

It can be seen that Huawei's pivotal position is like playing with the land, and it can't be seen at a glance. Such a giant company is still unknown, and no one knows about it, which shows what it looks like to be low-key.

A large group of office buildings.

Boss Ren is in the administrative building. After entering the door, he no longer has the elegant and beautiful outside, serious and depressing.

Entering the door is like entering a subway station, you have to swipe your card to pass.

Next to it is a sign for Huawei employees' dress code. The requirements are very strict. For example, you can't wear suspenders, vests, backless clothes, waistless clothes, shorts, short skirts, tight and see-through clothes, and sandals in the company. Flip flops, no hip hop style jeans, etc.

Basically, they restrict female employees.

After all, there are too many technicians here, and they all look like hungry wolves.

Before he could make progress, he saw Boss Ren coming over surrounded by many vice presidents, showing a bright smile, stretching out his right hand, and walking over quickly: "I have something to do at home, I just came back, welcome. "

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "It's just right, I also dealt with some company affairs, and I just came here. Boss Ren, my name is Zhou Buqi."

"I know, it's very famous."

"How can you be famous?"

"There is no outside world, and who in the industry doesn't know? The genius boy born in the 80s can compare us old guys..."

"Learn from you."

Zhou Buqi is very humble.

In the capital, he had met many bigwigs, and he handled this kind of situation with due diligence, naturally open-minded, without losing respect for his predecessors.