The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 1189 The Ruined Road of Wanbao Pavilion
"Ask me to be the president of the US Priority Fund!" Bezos was shocked. If it were him a few years ago, he might not have liked the whole invitation. After all, working for others is not as good as working for yourself.

But now, Bezos, whose career is over and assets cleared, suddenly feels that his future is bright. This is really a super surprise.

However, Bezos was also full of doubts in his heart, "Why did you choose me?"

"Because I found that our current president is full of self-superiority in daily life, does not respect the dignity of other doctrines, and also has certain workplace bullying behaviors, so we decided to fire such a guy!" Mrs. Versailles said.

"Um..." Bezos froze for a moment, then smiled wryly, "What I want to ask is, why are you willing to choose me as the successor of the president?"

"Because Mr. Bezos, you have performed very well in all aspects. My team recommended a total of 12 candidates for me. I think you are the best among them, so today I specially invite you to join our American Priority Group!" Madame Versailles said.

"There are 12 candidates?" Bezos was taken aback, and then tentatively asked the names of the 12 candidates. Mrs. Versailles was very straightforward and reported them all, but this made Bezos even more excited. shocked.

"Mrs. Versailles, please forgive me. Among the 12 candidates, 11 have better business performance than me. In the past two years, they have all made the company bigger and stronger, and achieved both performance and profits. Huge improvement. I was the only one who broke the company, and today I just announced that the company has entered bankruptcy proceedings. I really don’t understand why you chose me like this!” Bezos asked seriously.

"Because it's not your fault!" Madam Versailles also replied very seriously, "I spent a month on the road and read all the materials of your 12 candidates, and then I found out that you are actually the most popular among the 12 candidates." Which one is dazzling."

"Although the results of the other 11 people other than you are indeed very good, they are all due to the current situation. It is current events that make them, not the company."

"But you are different. I can see that you have worked very hard to save Wanbao Pavilion, and even started to build your own logistics. However, you have a pig teammate. Goldman Sachs ruined your efforts, not your personal one. fail!"

"In fact, I went to talk to Qiangdong Liu, the president of Southern Amazon, and he said that if he was in your position, he would not be able to do better than you. He was just glad that Jiangnan was behind him. Group, not Goldman Sachs!"

Bezos's eyes filled with tears when Mrs. Versailles said this. He didn't expect that at this time, he met his bosom friend.

Indeed, although Bezos failed, he never thought it was his own failure, but was killed by Goldman Sachs, a pig teammate, and it is true.

Although Bezos was caught off guard by Oriental Amazon's strategy of combining business with supermarkets, there is one thing to say, the combination of business and supermarkets is actually equivalent to opening up a brand new e-commerce channel, and at the same time it has developed many companies that do not play e-commerce at all on weekdays. Users have little impact on Bezos' original user group. Wanbaoge's basic disk is still good. On the formal e-commerce channel, Wanbaoge can still beat Eastern Amazon violently.

And Bezos is not a static person, he is also actively learning the opponent's strategy, and soon launched his own business-supermarket joint platform, and began to actively attack the opponent's territory.

So throughout 2006, Wanbaoge could still be said to have the advantage of me, and it was the veritable No. [-] e-commerce company in the United States. Oriental Amazon was not even ranked second, but it could only be said to be the third-ranked e-commerce company.

So how did Wanbao Pavilion collapse across the board in just three years and had to close down?

In fact, in terms of business strategy and company operations, Wanbaoge is not much worse than Oriental Amazon. Tell others that Wanbaoge has strong support from local companies. No matter how you look at it, Wanbaoge should be the last one to laugh.

But Wanbao Pavilion was defeated after all, and the defeat was due to the three words pig teammate.

The first pig teammate of Wanbao Pavilion is those cooperative supermarkets, at least in Bezos's opinion.

First of all, after Wanbaoge reached the cooperation with supermarkets, its outlets are even more exaggerated than that of Amazon in the East.

After all, Eastern Amazon has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with Wal-Mart, and both parties only cooperate with each other and do not contact any other companies.

Wanbaoge, on the other hand, has reached cooperation agreements with almost all large supermarkets except Wal-Mart to provide them with online delivery services. Therefore, the number of supermarket outlets in Wanbaoge is 4.5 times that of Amazon in the East. The number of customers is about 2.3 times higher than that of Eastern Amazon. From this point of view, Wanbaoge's start can almost be regarded as a god start.

But after the actual operation, Bezos found that this opening was the beginning of hell.

Because Eastern Amazon only needs to cooperate with Wal-Mart, they are all one-way docking, all orders come from one place, and then disperse to different places, just like a big water pipe is connected to itself, and then itself is connected Hundreds of faucets seem to be a lot, but all you need to do is manage this big water pipe.

But Wanbao Pavilion is different. It is connected to itself by more than a dozen large water pipes, and then connected to thousands of faucets. In this way, they need to be responsible for the management and maintenance of more than a dozen large water pipes, which is very difficult. It is troublesome and requires a lot of cost.

Let’s not mention how complicated it is to create a platform management system that can manage more than a dozen large supermarket chains at the same time. goods staff.

Generally speaking, Wal-Mart only has 1 or 2 supermarkets in the same town, so Amazon East only needs to set up one branch, and then send about two tally staff in each supermarket to directly take orders from the supermarkets.

But Wanbaoge is different, because there are many cooperative supermarkets, and these supermarkets may have their own chain stores in a region.

In one of the most exaggerated small towns, Wanbaoge has an astonishing 12 super outlets of its partners.

This means that Wanbaoge must place at least one tally clerk in each cooperative supermarket to receive and pack orders, so a city needs 12 tally clerks.

As a competitor, Eastern Amazon only needs two tally staff, and the labor cost for this alone is 6 times higher.

If the labor cost can be exchanged for the corresponding workload, then it doesn't matter, but the problem is that as Wal-Mart, which beats all other peers by itself, the orders of 12 supermarkets may add up, and there are only two Wal-Marts. Home order quantity only.

This means that the performance of the 12 tallymen in Wanbao Pavilion is only equivalent to the work of two tallymen in Amazon in the East. Do you think a capitalist can bear this kind of thing?
Of course Wanbaoge couldn't bear it, but he couldn't find a solution to the problem.

If it is in the terminal era in the future, it is possible to directly recruit a large number of riders, and then send orders directly through the mobile phone system, and then let the riders directly send them to the user, which is a very simple solution to the problem.

In 2006, this was impossible. For Wanbaoge, the best way is of course for the major supermarkets to send their orders to fixed Wanbaoge outlets, and then the staff of Wanbaode will deliver the goods. to the buyer.

But it is impossible for those supermarkets to do this, because it means that the supermarkets themselves have to increase their labor costs. Why, so Wanbao Pavilion can only carry it down by themselves.

Fortunately, at this time, Bezos showed his ability. He led his technicians to spend a month to tackle key problems, and developed a set of intelligent order distribution calculation system, allowing the delivery staff to concurrently work as tally staff.

Specifically, after delivering the goods, the delivery staff will go to the supermarket to tally the goods themselves, pack them according to the order, and then deliver these packaged orders to the user.

The entire delivery route and process are calculated by the system itself, and then directly command all delivery personnel through mobile phone text messages, so that they can act according to their own orders.

In this way, at any rate, more than half of the labor cost can be saved.Therefore, the final ability cost is still higher than that of the opponent, but it has reached an acceptable range.

Bezos himself has indeed achieved the best execution plan he can design, but when this plan starts to operate, all kinds of unexpected troubles come one after another.

For example, due to road construction or red lights, or traffic jams, the destination cannot be reached on time, resulting in overall time delays, which further lead to chaos in the originally set time chain.

I also encountered all kinds of unexpected troubles, such as the phone was out of battery and could not receive text messages.

Another example is that the user is not at home, or the community does not allow entry.

There is also a certain product that is out of stock, but the supermarket continues to sell it to the outside world, making it impossible to deliver anything.But these are small problems, and they can be dealt with even if you bite the bullet. Among all the problems, the problem is the largest and most difficult to solve: you can't find the goods!
That's right, this is the biggest problem. After all, letting a delivery person act as a tallyer can save manpower to the greatest extent, but a delivery person may need to connect with several or even a dozen supermarkets, and the warehouse layout of these supermarkets They are not the same. It is too difficult for the delivery staff to find the required goods in the warehouse according to the user's order in a short period of time.

Unless it is an old employee with more than one year of work experience, practice makes perfect and find what you want in the warehouse.

The problem is that there is no delivery person in Wanbaoge who can work continuously for more than three months. After they have endured about three months of inhuman experience at most, they will reap the rewards at the fastest speed, which is faster than the employees of Foxconn. even faster.

(End of this chapter)