The epidemic situation of Beijing's new crown pneumonia affects people. With the new place market hitting the "pause button" at 3 a.m. on June 13, the battle for the supply of livelihoods, such as vegetables, fruits, meat and aquatic products, continued in Beijing's major chain stores.
"At that time, our spirits were tense immediately. The most direct feeling was that we were afraid of tight supply and contacted various production areas to transfer the goods. The mobile phones were about to explode, and the eyes were closed for almost 48 hours." The cargo scene, Shi Guoqing, the head of Carrefour North China's procurement, was nervous and excited.
At the same time, Yonghui built a temporary distribution center at the Caixing Fresh Factory in Daxing District, Beijing. Shang Junjie, the partner of Yonghui Supermarket's operating vegetables in World War II, stayed here for a whole week to ensure the normal receipt and distribution of goods.
Among the supply and price protection of civilian life insurance, procurement is the most important part, and the test is the supply chain capabilities of major commercial supermarkets. Chain stores such as Yonghui, Carrefour, and supermarkets have launched the "desperate" mode, responding urgently without panic, stolen enough to ensure adequate shelves, and quickly achieve replacement positions.
Relying on a mobile phone to transfer goods to grab food
"Because of the outbreak during the Spring Festival, we have to be prepared in advance to deal with possible tight supply." On June 12, Shi Guoqing, head of procurement at Carrefour North China, heard that a confirmed case had recently been to a new After the news from the beef and mutton trading floor, her nerves tightened.
Realizing that the bases around Beijing may have tight supply, they need one base one base to coordinate ordering in advance. "Like potatoes, we immediately ordered 16 acres of potatoes from Yutian, and it took seven to eight hours to complete the work. The quick whip was compressed to four hours to ensure that we could reach the distribution center on time."
Facts have proved that it is quite wise to transfer goods from the base in advance. On the afternoon of June 12, the Xinfadi beef and mutton hall and the Beijing-Shenzhen seafood market were closed; from 3 a.m. on June 13th, the Xinfadi market announced the temporary closure of the market, which also means that some of the main sources of supply are Xinfadi Vegetable markets, community supermarkets, etc. will face difficulties in purchasing and may be out of stock or even out of stock.
Multiple vegetable producing areas 50 km away from Xinfa are the main source of Carrefour vegetable direct harvest. Shi Guoqing and the other two purchasers started to seize the supply in advance, not only around Beijing, but also from Henan, Hebei, Hainan and other places, stepped up the transfer of goods to ensure the supply of stores.
Unlike the procurement work during the Spring Festival, this time, Shi Guoqing felt more difficult. "Beijing will be closed for the new place, and the vegetable supply in Beijing will be very tight. With the help of a mobile phone, three people in our team will call and transport to various production areas all over the country.
The Beijing News reporter learned that since June 12, Carrefour has increased direct mining in bases around Beijing. Beijing stores provide more than 100 tons of fresh vegetables per day, which is 2-3 times the usual supply. Take June 13 as an example, about 100 tons of direct-picked vegetables from the place of production arrived on that day.
Avoid high-risk areas and build temporary new distribution centers
While Carrefour's purchase was busy adjusting the goods, Shang Junjie, a vegetable partner of Yonghui Supermarket's World War II, also received a notice. Since the original logistics distribution center of Yonghui is not far from Xinfa, and Xinfa is in a high-risk area, in order to avoid the impact of logistics vehicles approaching this area, on June 12, the company decided to go to Daxing Caixi The factory builds a temporary logistics center.
Shang Junjie, who is usually in charge of store operations, did temporary work at this time, and set up sheds and headlights with Caishuang staff. After a busy afternoon, the temporary logistics center was built. "We immediately called the purchasing team in neighboring Henan for help, and allocated all resources to Beijing to meet the supply of the Beijing market." So, more than 200 logistics vehicles delivered one by one to the Beijing market.
Because the company's original procurement and drivers were performing nucleic acid testing, they could not rush to the distribution center for coordination, so they had to temporarily transfer 20 people from each store to the distribution point to help. These people who did not know how to purchase had to direct the vehicles and sort them. From 5 pm on the same day to noon the next day, they sorted more than 800 tons. Many employees were too tired to work, and they couldn’t eat.
With the surge in store orders, in order to ensure that there is no shortage of goods, Yonghui Supermarket increased the daily supply of vegetables from two to three hundred tons to more than 2,000 tons. "After 48 hours of continuous operations, the procurement and drivers are all in place, and the normal return to normal on the third day." Shang Junjie told the Beijing News reporter that the original supply chain in the Beijing market soon entered the right track. In the next few days, the purchasers mainly Inspection of agricultural products in the logistics center, including items such as the source of the goods, pesticide residues, etc. "We lived in the logistics center for a week."
Huang Xiaochen, head of the Beijing market of Yonghui Supermarket, introduced that in order to ensure market supply, on June 15th, 3,000 tons of fruits and vegetables were urgently deployed from the country to Beijing. This supply was 6 times that of usual. Since then, consumption has gradually stabilized. There are more than 400 tons of goods in sufficient supply.
It is worth noting that in order to meet the demand for online orders, the color food factory that is responsible for online supply has also temporarily assigned nearly 50 staff to sort and package, and the additional number accounts for two-thirds of weekday employees. In the logistics link, the original color food was delivered to the store once a day, but it was adjusted to twice during the epidemic, and the delivery is acceptable 24 hours a day.
Direct mining of production area highlights the advantages of source protection
This round of epidemic is a big test for the supply chain for retail enterprises. Being able to quickly mobilize resources to ensure supply means occupying the market.
Some online fresh food practitioners who did not want to be named told the Beijing News that the online order volume increased significantly during the Beijing epidemic, but their online platform, because part of the source of goods is a new place, there has been a shortage of supplies. Chain stores such as Carrefour, Yonghui, Supermarket, Hema, Wal-Mart, Wumart, etc., can take advantage of direct base procurement and coordinated operations of regional procurement. The supply of goods is stable and can effectively guarantee the living supply of residents.
The Beijing News reporter learned that the seafood and meat products sold by Beijing Supermarket, Carrefour, Yonghui, Wumei, etc. are provided by long-term cooperative brand merchants and suppliers. For example, the supermarkets and Carrefour beef come from Yueshengzhai and pork. Coming from the meat joint factory, there is no loose source of external retail market, and the goods are sent to the company's distribution center through the supplier.
In terms of direct harvesting of fresh fruits and vegetables, Shi Guoqing, head of Carrefour North China's procurement, said that the company has been carrying out poverty alleviation and agricultural sales for a long time, and has established cooperative relations with bases in Hebei, Shanxi, Henan and other surrounding areas. Each category will have two, three, or even three or four sources of supply. This will avoid the problem of instability caused by insufficient supply to a certain extent, and will also ensure price stability to a certain extent.
Yonghui Supermarket's supply chain advantages in major production areas across the country have also been highlighted. According to Shang Junjie, there was also pressure on the Beijing epidemic procurement, but it was far less than the procurement pressure during the Spring Festival, because "Yonghui transferred the national resources to Beijing easily, not only the quantity is not lacking, but the price has not risen."
The same is true of Wal-Mart Sam's Club. Wal-Mart said that the Wal-Mart Sam member store uses direct-picking vegetables. There are nearly 30 processing plants across the country. Even if the demand for vegetable purchases by members in the Beijing area suddenly increases, Sam can also transport vegetables by air and land from processing plants in other cities to ensure supply.
The relevant person in charge of Yonghui Supermarket told the Beijing News reporter that supply chain, direct source picking and direct hair origin are the core advantages. Vegetables and fruits are all directly picked and qualified for quarantine testing. After this round of outbreak in Beijing, the company urgently held a national supply chain supply conference within 24 hours. The platform and various theaters coordinated with the place of origin to double the supply of vegetables and fruits, increase peripheral supply and the surrounding provinces.
Hema mobilized Alibaba Group's own "vegetable garden". On June 17, the Hema Beijing store opened an internal emergency meeting to mobilize hundreds of digital vegetable bases of "Caiyuanzi" Alibaba and cooperate with thousands of fruit and vegetable suppliers to increase the purchase volume by more than 5 times daily, from Shanghai, Shandong, Hebei and other shipping ingredients, cold chain through trains to assist Beijing, to ensure an adequate supply of safe, fresh and abundant fruits and vegetables online and offline.
Vegetable "price-locking" supermarket has confidence
Direct mining also helps companies to ensure stable commodity prices. After the Beijing Chain Store & Franchise Association proposed that chain companies join hands to "guarantee safety, supply, quality and price stability", as of June 16, Beijing had 27 major supermarkets and convenience stores in response to the initiative to stabilize the prices of vegetables and other necessities. Among them, Wal-Mart, Yonghui, Supermarket, Carrefour and others have successively locked the prices of 10 kinds of vegetables every day, and guaranteed a constant price for 1 month.
It can be said that after the temporary closure of the Xinfadi wholesale market, the supply from multiple channels, such as the direct supply from the supermarket and the community vegetable express, has quickly supplemented the market supply.
From the introduction of Wang Hongcun, a second-level inspector of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, at the Beijing Epidemic Prevention and Control Conference on June 24, the vegetable supply situation in Beijing continued to improve, and the number of listings in seven key wholesale markets continued to increase, stabilizing at 1.3 for three consecutive days. More than 10,000 tons; 8 large supermarket chains continue to accelerate the transfer of goods, vegetable inventory and supply are very sufficient. Wang Hongcun said that he will continue to strengthen market monitoring, keep abreast of supply and price information, ensure timely replenishment of shortages, and ensure market supply and price stability; increase the organization of supply sources and continue to play the role of a multi-province supply guarantee mechanism in the surrounding areas.
Beijing News reporter Xiaorong Zhang