Chapter 108: Seeing Temporary Workers Again
"I think it's better to ask Dr. Clement to see what his opinion is? After all, Clement is an expert in production." Duke thought for a while and suggested. Although it's a bit late now, today is the first product launch of the company. I think Dr. Clement won't go to bed early even if he comes.
"Yes, see what Dr. Clement said," Susanna echoed.
This idea is good. Shuya turned on the phone in hands-free mode and started dialing Clement's phone. After Didi rang two or three times, Dr. Clement answered the phone. Judging from the speed of the connection, it was indeed not sleepy.
"Miss Shuya, right? Tonight is such a glorious night worth celebrating." Clement's cheerful and excited voice came clearly from the phone. It seemed that he was just like everyone else and saw the exciting scene of the flash sale just now.
"Selling 80,000 units at once is an unprecedented new record in the brain wave product market. According to this trend, the market acceptance of our brain wave product is quite high." Clement said excitedly.
Think about it, selling 10,000 sets a year is a very commendable thing. If he sold 80,000 sets this night, how could he not be excited? You should know that he has put all his wealth on Mi Company. Originally, he estimated that the company could sell 200,000 to 300,000 sets this year, it was already very impressive.
After all, it is a new thing, and there is still a process for everyone to accept it. How could Duke and the others create an activity to bring love to paralyzed children, which actually makes the market atmosphere so hot that it is now out of stock.
According to this trend, the brain wave products produced this year are very likely to be sold, which is close to 600,000 units. According to the current price, the sales this year will be almost 180 million US dollars?
Thinking about it, Clement felt excited. It seemed that his decision was really wise. It was much better to rely on this rapidly developing little seedling than to work alone.
Clement did not see the online data in the backend on the spot, and it is not clear that the number of enthusiasts who came to buy this evening exceeded 700,000 of this amazing data.
"Dr. Clement, don't be happy first." Shu Ya's distressed voice stunned Clement. "We have too many potential customers now. Doctor, do you know how many online users are here to buy today?"
"More than 700,000! According to our production capacity, we can't meet so many users in half a year. We are worried about how to solve this big problem." Shu Ya did not play any boring game of guessing and guessing, and told the current difficulties. Everyone trusted and valued them very much after spending time together.
"Ah?!" Clement was indeed shocked when he heard this number, and then became even more excited.
Good, this is really amazing. The first launch attracts such a huge number of consumers. The potential of this market looks really charming.
"This is a good thing. In such a good form, do we have any problems?" Clement asked in confusion after coming to his senses.
Shu Ya had no choice but to give Clement a brief introduction to what everyone had just discussed.
"Oh, so that's it," Clement said after pondering for a while. "It seems urgent to expand production capacity. After all, we are in such a situation now that we are in a big way. If we miss this opportunity, we don't know how much advertising costs will cost to achieve such results."
After all, Clement has been working in this industry for several years and knows how hard-earned the situation is now.
"But everyone's concerns are also very reasonable. After all, the prospects in this field are indeed not particularly clear now. If the fixed expenditure is too large, it is not a good thing for the company."
The front agreed to expand production capacity firmly, and then turned around and started to be a steady player. Shu Ya and the others were a little confused by Clement. What does Clement mean?
Fortunately, Clement didn't have the heart to play the guessing game, so he directly explained his plans.
"We will first expand the production line to at least ten. This one-time investment cost is relatively not very high. The cost of 2 million US dollars is nothing compared to the income of tens of millions of dollars." Clement quickly expressed his plans.
"In terms of production workers, if we consider that the production seasonality is very strong, our newly expanded production capacity will no longer recruit fixed workers, but will recruit part-time hourly workers. Since most of the current production links do not have very high requirements for workers' technical level, there is no problem in enabling temporary workers in these links. It is just that experienced workers can take the training for a few days."
"According to the number of core skilled workers in our current capacity, there is no problem with the current skilled workers even if they support fifteen production lines. In this way, we can control workers more flexibly, hire more temporary timers when demand is strong, and hire less when the market is sluggish, ensuring that human resources are not wasted and putting greater pressure on the company to spend a fixed expense.
Of course, the cost of this kind of hourly labor is relatively higher, which is about 20% higher than that of fixed workers. Moreover, the pressure on human recruitment is also relatively high, but we have all found ways to overcome these problems."
After hearing what Clement said, Duke couldn't help but wonder, is it also popular for temporary workers in the United States?
"This is a direct increase in the production capacity brought by the production facilities. There is another way to directly double the production capacity on the existing basis, because now our production method is arranged according to the eight-hour working system. Under appropriate circumstances, we can use the method of increasing one shift to speed up production, but this will be higher in labor costs, especially the wages of workers during night shifts are calculated twice as much as the legal needs."
"So if we add five more production lines and implement an additional shift production operation method, our production capacity can be increased to a monthly output of more than 300,000 and close to 400,000 sets. Of course, this is a full load situation. To reach this level, at least 800 to 1,000 new workers need to be added. The number is so large that it will be difficult for us to recruit so many suitable personnel in this small place in Tracy for a time."
After listening to Clement's plan, everyone felt that the eyes were lit. It was really a turn of things and the flowers were bright. In this way, the production capacity could be increased several times with less risk. This plan really doesn't seem to be bad.
From now on, it is good to use temporary workers. The company can be flexible and changeable. It always keeps a close eye on market forecasts. When there is more demand, hire more. When the market is sluggish, hire less. You no longer have to bear so much fixed labor costs. Instead, it changes according to the needs to ensure that all the hired workers can directly generate value.
Although this kind of labor cost seems to be higher, with the current gross profit margin of up to 70% of the product, this additional cost is really just a drizzle.
After discussing for a while, everyone thought Clement had a good idea. As for not recruiting so many workers in Tracy, it would be better to open a branch in another place. This production line has no high requirements for regional areas, as long as the transportation is convenient, water and electricity are smooth.
The unemployment rate in California is not low now, and I believe many places are very welcome to factories that can absorb a large number of workers.
However, these are all details. Next, everyone will just focus on the total. So soon everyone reached an agreement and decided to find another place near Tracy to build a new factory with five production lines. The main factor is whether workers are easy to recruit. From now on, a plan for recruiting a large number of workers must be formulated. Some suitable ones can be recruited first for training preparation.
It is so easy to expand production capacity, thanks to Clement's modular design, it can minimize product production requirements and lay a solid foundation for rapid capacity expansion. According to Clement's plan, if the recruitment of workers is smooth this month and the production of 150,000 sets of products is less than a problem, the old factory will definitely form 200,000 sets of production next month.
As for the construction of a new factory, if it goes well, the problem of 100,000 units of production capacity next month is not too big. In this way, the demand of 700,000 users can be met in at most three months.
This is really a great news.
Chapter completed!