Chapter 557: Taking advantage of the situation to pursue
So even if Wu Hao ships the goods now, it will take more than thirty days to arrive in Europe. This is why he chooses the more expensive air freight to transport the 200,000 smart AR glasses that have just been cleared through customs.
The reason for going to Europe. Although it is expensive, it can save more than a month, which is crucial for them now.
As for the 500,000 units he promised, they will be shipped to Europe via China-Europe trains. Although it takes about 20 days, it is about ten days faster than shipping.
Of course, this is only an emergency measure. Wu Hao and the others must immediately organize the factory to speed up production. Then they will continue to ship goods to Europe by sea. In this way, the supply of goods can be wirelessly connected, so that market sales will not be affected.
In fact, not only Europe, but also West Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan and Korea and other markets have responded very well, but it is just not as enthusiastic as Europe.
But even so, the combined demand in these places is much greater than that in Europe. So what Wu Hao has a huge headache now is to communicate and argue with the people in charge and agents in these places, trying to buy as much time as possible.
As for the domestic market, it is currently their largest market and the most important market. Of course Wu Hao cannot give up on this, but the domestic market is not as eager as the overseas market.
The domestic market can wait a little longer. Before other manufacturers launch relevant products that can compete with them, this market still belongs to them.
But overseas markets are different and are easily affected by various factors. What Wu Hao has to do now is to take advantage of this opportunity to seize the market as much as possible and make it an established fact.
In this way, even if certain factors come to affect them, they can rely on the market they have already occupied to resist. They can also use the market to influence the countries in the region and reduce the extent of their impact.
This is why Wu Hao does not use direct sales in these overseas countries, but uses agents to enter the market.
Compared with outsiders like them, these agents have a certain degree of influence in various regions and countries. As long as the benefits are substantial, these agents will naturally do their best to maintain it.
When their smart voice assistants first entered Europe, they adopted this method, which allowed their products to seize most of the European smart voice product market in a short period of time.
Although there were many problems after that, thanks to the hard work of these agents, they gradually gained a foothold in the European market. It is precisely because of this that the series of products they subsequently released were able to enter Europe so quickly.
market.
Although Europe does not have as much influence as the United States, it is not weak. As long as the European market is solved, the markets in other regions will naturally be easy to handle. Of course, the United States is an exception.
"The current output is still too low?" Wu Hao turned to Zhang Jun who was sitting on the other side and said.
Zhang Jun nodded when he heard this and said: "It's a bit low, but this is already our largest production capacity at present. Our three factories are currently overloaded, with weekly production reaching one million units. And the foundry factory also has
Five new production lines were invested, with daily output reaching 200,000 units.
Taken together, our product output can reach 2.4 million units, which is already a very high number."
Wu Hao shook his head and said: "It's still too low. We must take advantage of this trend to seize the market as much as possible, especially overseas markets.
In this way, I will call Dongzi again and ask him to coordinate again and strive to increase the daily production to 300,000 units. As for our several factories, I will ask He Jinshan to further increase the production capacity.
Give me a twenty percent increase.
In this way, our weekly production can reach 3.3 million units, so we can fill the gap in the market within a month."
"But in this case, the cost will obviously increase. And I'm afraid there will be no reason from the foundry. After all, they have other production orders and it is impossible to transfer production to us.
If we build new production lines and train new workers, the time will be too slow and the cost will be too high.
As for our side, the production of one million units is already overloaded. If we increase it further, I'm afraid it will be too much and errors will easily occur," Zhang Jun said worriedly.
Hearing Zhang Jun's words, Wu Hao couldn't help but nodded. He was a little distracted by various phone calls now, and it was inevitable that he was a little anxious and out of control.
So after thinking calmly for a while, he immediately made a decision: "Let's just let He Jinshan do his best and improve as much as he can. If he can't improve, just maintain the equipment and avoid trouble elsewhere.
As for the foundry, let Dongzi try his best to negotiate and the price can be raised a little. What we are currently short of is goods."
"Isn't this a little outweighed by the gains?" Zhang Jun frowned at Wu Hao and asked.
Wu Hao waved his hand after hearing this: "It doesn't matter, the current losses can be fully recovered through later operations. Our most important thing at the moment is to meet the needs of the market and seize more markets."
Seeing Wu Hao say this, Zhang Jun also nodded and said: "Okay, let's do it like this. As you said, supply the overseas market first, and I will try my best to support the domestic market."
Wu Hao thought for a while after hearing this, then shook his head and said: "We can't just take care of the overseas market, the domestic market still needs to be taken care of.
In this way, let's allocate part of our current production capacity. Our current weekly production is 2.4 million units, and let's give up 800,000 units.
You ask the marketing department to release it slowly and in batches. Be flexible and don’t let consumers think that we are learning from corn and engaging in hunger-relief marketing.
If necessary, we can issue an announcement or explanation to explain our current predicament to the outside world."
"I understand, I will arrange this myself." Zhang Jun responded seriously.
Well, Wu Hao nodded slightly, then looked at Zhang Jun and said: "This year's company annual meeting will definitely not be held, and the holidays for some departments will also be postponed or even cancelled.
So at this time, we must try to appease employees' emotions as much as possible. This can be done both mentally and materially. How to implement it specifically requires each department to come up with an executable plan based on the actual situation of their respective departments.
It can be as generous as possible. If you want the horse to run, you have to let the horse eat grass first. We expect these people to make a lot of money for us, so there is no need to worry about small amounts of money.
So be brave. At this critical juncture, we must maintain the stability within the company and the strong fighting capacity of our employees."
"Don't worry, I know the importance." Zhang Junchang said with a smile.