Seize the window period to fill up the supply chain-agricultural machinery industry to grab production to help spring cultivation
In April, Jiangnan's spring blossomed and the scenery was pleasant. Located in the factory area of Suzhou Jiufu Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. in Wujiang Economic and Technological Development Zone, trucks are neatly parked in the factory area, waiting for loading. Hundreds of employees have worked hard to grab production and supply, and strive to deliver rice transplanters, beaters and other agricultural machinery to users in the shortest time. Assembly workshops, welding workshops, blanking workshops, and other workshops are full of high-speed machines and busy workers.
Faced with the sudden epidemic situation, Suzhou Jiufu made overall plans to prevent epidemic and resume work, and promote the normalization of production in an orderly manner. However, in the early stage of resumption of work, Jiufu faced many difficulties, such as the obstruction of employees returning to the factory, the inability of suppliers to start supply and the lack of smooth logistics. In February, Jiufu's 20-day capacity was less than the previous 2 days. In March, production capacity only returned to 60% to 70%. Jiufu established a production security leading group to follow up on supply and production every day to ensure that materials are available, production is stable, and information is smooth. At present, the company's production capacity has returned to normal levels in previous years.
"You must make up for the lost time to minimize the loss caused by the epidemic." Yu Tao, the person in charge of Jiufu production, said. Agricultural machinery sales have strong seasonal characteristics. Once the window period has passed, the consumption demand for agricultural machinery will decline. Affected by the epidemic this year, the sales window of agricultural machinery has been shortened from 4 months to 2 months. In order to make up for the "lost two months" before the end of the peak season of agricultural machinery sales, all employees of Jiufu actively carry out online marketing services to provide users with online booking and offline pick-up services.
Xu Zhenghua, general manager of Jiufu, was pleasantly surprised that the market demand for rice transplanters was strong this year, and the product supply was in short supply. "Jiufu produces one and sells one." He analyzed that this was because the backlog of consumer demand was released within 2 months. In addition, farmers affected by the epidemic and unable to go out to work to stay at home to grow land increase the demand for agricultural machinery.
"This epidemic has exposed many shortcomings in our enterprise's supply chain." Xu Zhenghua said that in the early stages of resumption of work, both upstream parts and components manufacturers and downstream machine manufacturers were facing the problem of not being able to provide timely supply. In order to obtain spare parts in time, Jiufu had to send someone to help spare parts manufacturers to relieve the production pressure of spare parts companies. This epidemic greatly enhanced the crisis response awareness of Jiufu Agricultural Machinery, and accelerated the construction of the second-phase plant, equipment and production line. At the same time, the company will reserve materials scientifically and establish a crisis response plan to cope with possible new crises. (Economic Daily · China Economic Net reporter Liu Hui correspondent He Xuekou)