With the continuation of the epidemic in Shanghai, as daily necessities, citizens' demand for dairy products continues to grow. Middle-aged and elderly people need fresh milk for nutrition, and infants and young children need infant formula as rations. More and more dairy companies have joined Come in the ranks of guarantee.
A reporter from China Business News learned that the products of various dairy companies are currently in sufficient supply, and the difficulty lies in how to deliver the products to Shanghai citizens as soon as possible. The dairy industry people also tried their best.
Demand for infant rations surges
Due to the unexpected severity of the epidemic, the inventory of many residents' homes is tight, and the most concerned is the "ration" of infants and young children - infant formula milk powder.
According to statistics from Wyeth Nutritional Products, from April 1st to 10th, its 400 service hotline and online public account received as many as 7,775 inquiries on consumer milk powder demand.
The relevant person in charge of Wyeth Nutritional Products Co., Ltd. stated that, as a guaranteed supply enterprise recognized by the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, Wyeth Nutritional Products promised 48 hours of “door-to-door delivery” during the epidemic. With the support, the company obtained the livelihood guarantee letter and vehicle pass to ensure transportation to overcome the impact of the transportation capacity during the epidemic; on the other hand, the logistics staff of Wyeth Nutrition Company also rushed for time on the "last mile" of the service.
Every morning at 9:00, Chen Jun, a Wyeth logistics security staff member, starts a day's delivery work. In order to bring more milk powder, Chen Jun has always set out alone. At this time, his private car went from the co-pilot to the trunk. It has been stuffed with more than 30 boxes of milk powder.
In order to ensure the safety of delivery, Chen Jun must wear an isolation suit and be fully armed. In recent days, the temperature in Shanghai at noon has exceeded 30 degrees. When the goods are loaded, transported and delivered in one day, Chen Jun is all wet. He even said with a smile "I don't have to go to the bathroom all day, it just evaporates."
The delivery work itself is not easy. Since infant formula milk powder is a special food, every time Chen Jun delivers to a community, he needs to carry out secondary disinfection and contact the volunteers in the community for separate delivery. It also takes more time per delivery.
Often Chen Jun returned to the warehouse at 2 am after delivering the goods every day, and Chen Jun could not rest immediately. He had to sort out the goods to be used the next day, conduct antigen tests, and submit the test results online.
After all, Chen Jun can only rest for 4-5 hours a day, but in his view, in the current situation of tight transportation, ensuring the safety of infants and young children's rations is an unshirkable responsibility.
A reporter from China Business News learned that there are not a few milk powder people running on the streets of Shanghai to ensure supply. Due to the large demand for milk powder, dairy companies are trying their best to ensure the demand of citizens for infant formula milk powder.
Danone, which is also a supply guarantee company in Shanghai, on the one hand, through its official milk powder service platform "Feed Free", helps citizens to find the daily updated offline supply stores and organizes direct purchases in the community; on the other hand, in order to ensure transportation capacity , Danone cooperated with Dada Express and Fosun Commercial Stream, the latter squeezed out 30 and 10 trucks to send directly to the community every day under the tight transportation capacity, which can cover the milk powder demand of 500-600 community families every day.
However, during the visit, a number of interviewed milk powder managers said that due to the epidemic lockdown, many vehicles and drivers were also affected. Therefore, how to ensure transportation capacity is also the biggest difficulty in ensuring the supply of milk powder this time. Let go, and I hope that the pressure on future capacity will be reduced accordingly.
"Qianli" for milk
In addition to infant formula milk powder, in the epidemic, dairy products are a daily necessity for citizens, and the pressure to ensure the supply is also huge.
As a local dairy company in Shanghai, Bright Dairy started a closed management approach in the early days of the fight against the epidemic to ensure the production and supply of local milk.
In response to the shortage of milk delivery staff and other insufficient distribution capabilities brought about by the epidemic prevention and control, Bright Dairy has dispatched functional personnel from headquarters operations, finance, marketing, legal affairs and other departments to serve as volunteers to ensure the normal operation of the milk station.
Recently, in order to allow more citizens to drink milk, Bright Dairy has integrated all its factory resources, urgently allocated national products, and opened a special railway train to deliver milk to Shanghai.
On April 11 alone, Bright Dairy's Heilongjiang and Tianjin factories shipped 1,526 tons and 1,300 tons of milk. After that, milk from Bright's Zhengzhou and other factories will also arrive in Shanghai to ensure supply.
According to Han Chaodong of Heilongjiang Guangming Songhe Factory, after receiving the task of guaranteeing supply, the factory set up a party member commando team, temporarily dispatched 32 employees, and completed the loading of 1,526 tons of milk in 56 carriages in 30 hours. At present, the factory is still working overtime. production, to ensure that another 1,500 tons of milk will be shipped to Shanghai on the 13th.
In addition to Bright Dairy, Mengniu Dairy also sends more than 100 tons of fresh milk from the Ma'anshan factory every day. After a journey of nearly 400 kilometers, it joins the work of ensuring the supply of dairy products in Shanghai.
A reporter from China Business News learned that compared with milk powder, fresh milk needs to be delivered daily, and it is more difficult and pressured to ensure supply.
According to Zheng Lei, general manager of Mengniu's fresh milk business "Tianxian Pian", after the closure, the demand for fresh milk from citizens increased significantly, and more than 5,000 fresh milk were delivered every day. The employees of "Tian Xian Pian" have become milk workers. They arrive at the cold storage to pick up milk and load trucks at 7 o'clock in the morning. On average, each person has to deliver more than 100 servings of milk every day, and they can not return to the hotel until about 11 o'clock in the evening.
Due to the closure of the epidemic, the catering business was suspended, and the milk delivery staff could only change three meals a day to two in the morning and evening; they wore protective clothing to deliver 200 kilograms of fresh milk every day, and the work intensity was very high; and because fresh milk could not be left in the car overnight , In order to raise milk early in the morning, many employees simply live in the car; these days, some employees lose 15 pounds in 7 days, and some have a flat tire in their private car.
The daily supply of fresh milk is very difficult, but Zheng Lei also witnessed the warmth of the city of Shanghai.
During the milk delivery process, Zheng Lei and his colleagues often received mineral water, bread and disinfectant water from enthusiastic citizens, and reminded them to take precautions.
Zheng Lei also told reporters: "Every time I refuse, I can't beat their enthusiasm, and I feel that all the hard work is worth it!"