Age of Dreams

It is impossible for any company to produce exactly that many products when it produces its own products, especially consumer products.

There are quality problems, repair and replacement problems, etc., as well as maintaining a certain amount of inventory, all of which need to be considered.

If there is a problem with the iphone, the rule of replacing it with a new one may seem a little too hypocritical, but the tightness of the dream pad is even higher than that of the iphone, and the probability of replacing the whole device is relatively high.

Xiao Qi previously ordered 30 million sets of dream pad parts per year, but it has been proved by facts that it is not enough at all.

The boy originally planned to sell only 30 million units after the iPad came out in the first year, and the Dream Pad was three years earlier than it. Now people's acceptance of smart electronic products is not as good as three years later. Selling 25 million units is a big victory, and the remaining 5 million units are used as maneuvers, inventory reduction, quality replacement, etc., are also enough.

However, since spending seven or eight billion US dollars on overwhelming advertising, the dream pad website has been overwhelmed again and again, and billions of video views have been viewed, making Xiao Qi realize that he underestimated the fans who love technology all over the world. enthusiasm.

After paying a high price, we specially entrusted Nielsen and other survey data companies to investigate. After summarizing their data, they concluded that if the dream pad can guarantee the production capacity, there will be no problem in selling 40 million units a year.

Xiao Qi did not dare to make up his mind through careful consideration.

Because in this world, many people say it beautifully, but it is another matter to actually do it. People who say they will buy it, but don’t even look at the product after it is launched. But it's not just owned by China, foreign countries are everywhere.

The dream pad will be upgraded in a year and a half at most. If there is too much inventory and cannot be sold, it will always be a troublesome thing.

That is to say, in the process of pre-ordering the purchase of the dream pad, the goods have not been seen yet, and all 3 million units have been sold out in three days. Only then did Xiao Qi make a real decision to purchase 50 million sets of dream pad parts, so that the entire 80 million dream pads should be enough for more than a year, and even if there is a little memory, it can be completely digested.

According to Xiao Qi's current status, he doesn't need to go to the parts dealer's company to order one by one, and even contact him, he doesn't need to appear in person.

However, the boy is a very dutiful person. They have never been ambitious and rampant, so although they didn't have time to negotiate one by one, they made a phone call first and invited them to come to Rongcheng to discuss the business of additional parts.

30 million sets of dream pad parts are enough to make the suppliers happy, and 50 million sets of such a big piece of cake will come, and everyone will rush over cheerfully.

But Xiao Qi also said that he hoped who he negotiated with last time. The same person came this time, which made the executives who came into contact with him feel grateful. Because this is obviously improving their reputation and voice!

There are only two changes.

First of all, although Samsung sells 30 million sets of nand flash memory chips to Xiao Qi every year, but this time the addition of nand flash memory chips has nothing to do with them. Xiao Qi has never even called.

Then there are the dream pad chargers from Hitachi and Panasonic. Xiao Qi also persuaded them to transfer this small order to the seven alliance factories in South Bay. As a result, this Friendship Joint Holding Company, which owns 30% of Xiao Qi's shares, has three major businesses: earphones, polyurethane protective shells and chargers.

Still the same sentence, he remembered all those who helped Xiao Qi.

If these people are in trouble. Xiao Qi will definitely help them as much as he can.

In the factory circles in Nanwan these days, the story of Friendship United Holdings has already spread. After receiving an order of 30 million sets, it has now added another 50 million sets, and the profit margin remains above 20%. , How not to make those factories who are only working hard for about 5% profit envy?

The most bitter thing is Xiao Qi’s previous big partner——Quanta Electronics, an LCD screen manufacturer affiliated to AU Optronics, the No. Looking at Xiao Qi's strong support for the previous cooperative manufacturers, even MediaTek won the chip research project, but they still got nothing.

Jiang Yanxin has survived three rounds of impeachment, but his status in the company has plummeted. It is said that many directors are secretly joining forces to give him a thunderous blow at the next general meeting of shareholders.

He used to be able to bear it, but seeing that the dream pad sold 3 million units in three days, and it was still a pre-order sale, and it was so hot, he knew that if he didn't think of a way, it might take a few months. He can only leave the company that he has worked hard for all his life.

Face can never be eaten.

Hearing that Xiao Qi was summoning major suppliers during this period, Jiang Yanxin bit the bullet and came to Rongcheng, and brought Su Longteng and Zhao Xueqin, who had friendship with Xiao Qi, to see Xiao Qi.

AU Optronics and MediaTek made the same mistake. They both look down on mainland companies that can produce high-tech products, so Xiao Qi has no particular dislike for Jiang Yanxin.

It's just that this old man is too reserved, even people who have a good relationship with Cai Guozhi and Xiao Qi come to beg for mercy, but he still insists on it, and Xiao Qi can only let him, he can't just say "I don't Don’t care about you, come and cooperate with me”?

Now that Jiang Yanxin shamelessly apologized, the young man naturally accepted it.

The reason is not only because of Quanta Electronics’ help to Fairy Phone, but also because AU Optronics’ liquid crystal technology is very mature. The progress is faster. On the other hand, because of the consideration of 5.0 and 5.3-inch LCD mobile phone screens, it is indeed beneficial and harmless to have more suppliers for LCD screens.

In modern production, any single supply chain is a fragile supply chain.

If you want to have sufficient anti-risk capabilities, it is easiest to have a balanced development with two or three suppliers for the same component.

The only thing that Xiao Qi felt was a pity was that there were almost no high-precision parts suppliers in Mainland China.

If when it is possible to realize that more than 60% of the parts and components are produced by companies in mainland China, it will prove that high-tech companies in China have begun to flourish. (To be continued..)

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