The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 43 The Dilemma of Qingning Chamber of Commerce
As a partner of the local business leader Haiya Chamber of Commerce, the Qingning Chamber of Commerce has a very large stall.

With maritime trade suppliers as its main business, Qingning Chamber of Commerce has established a huge supply chain network in more than 30 major commercial cities in eastern Zhongzhou.

In Zhongzhou, where an efficient third-party logistics system has not been established, Li Qingning was able to build up this supply chain network in a few years, which is obviously due to his hard work. This is also the most important capital of the entire Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

However, there are many branches in the supply chain network. To manage this supply chain network well requires a high level of management and financial skills. Although Li Qingning has a good theoretical foundation, in practice, many management problems have been exposed one after another.

As a private equity fund manager, although Yang Lu has never really managed a commercial enterprise, he has a lot of experience in in-depth research.

After listening to Li Qingning's continuous explanation and complaints for almost half an hour, he realized that the Qingning Chamber of Commerce's management problems were not general problems, but serious problems that threatened the survival of the Chamber of Commerce!
In all fairness, the management of the Cultivation Chamber of Commerce is much easier than the management of modern enterprises.

Although mortals are not bound by the merit system of the Dao of Heaven, and violations of laws and regulations cannot be completely avoided, the huge gap in combat power between cultivators and mortals is itself an invisible deterrent to illegal activities, raising the opportunity cost of breaking the law.

He has just seen Li Qingning's force value. If the ordinary clerks of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce dare to embezzle and corrupt, they must be prepared to be killed by Li Qingning's palm, and they don't even need to go through formal legal procedures.

The business owners on Earth don't have such awesome fighting power!
Although the powerful combat power of the cultivators can greatly reduce the difficulty of management, the force value cannot solve all problems.

Management is an esoteric knowledge that combines practice and theory. Many people who are poisoned by Internet articles think that they can become leaders by traveling back to ancient times, but if you ask them to lead 50 colleagues on a trip abroad, they will find that they can’t handle it at all. .The supply chain management of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce is a particularly troublesome matter.

In the Kyushu cultivation world, all major cultivation forces have their own spheres of influence.

If other chambers of commerce want to come to Haiya City to do business, they must have Jiang Huaan's nod of approval. If the Haiya chamber of commerce wants to do business in other places, it also needs the permission of the local cultivation forces.

But the problem is that the Haiya Chamber of Commerce's exports come from all over Zhongzhou, and the imported goods have to be exported to all parts of Zhongzhou. If they want to deal with thousands of local forces in Zhongzhou, it is obviously not something that local cultivation sects like the Haiya Sect can do. Even if they have the ability, they don't have the time and energy.

The significance of the existence of the suppliers and distributors of the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce is to help the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce to establish relationships.

Most of these suppliers and distributors have local cultivation forces as their backers. It is because of their help to settle the local forces in various parts of Zhongzhou that the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce can expand its business territory to the entire Zhongzhou continent.

The main reason why the Qingning Chamber of Commerce rose to prominence in a short period of time was because Li Qingyang had enough face.

All local forces dared not take the risk of offending the young lady of the Li family, so they collectively acquiesced in Li Qingning's establishment of stable supply channels in more than 30 major cities in just a few years.

As a supplier of Haiya Chamber of Commerce, the core department of Qingning Chamber of Commerce is naturally the procurement department.

The Qingning Chamber of Commerce purchases an astonishing amount of goods every year. No matter which local chamber of commerce this purchase order is given to, it will involve a huge problem of profit sharing. Therefore, just like the earth enterprises, the corruption of the procurement department has become a long-standing problem for the chamber of commerce.

Although Li Qingning's style of handling things seems unreliable, but after all, he came from an academic family, and his theoretical skills are still acceptable.

She is well aware that the procurement department is the hardest hit area of ​​corruption, so she uses the classic decentralization theory to divide the procurement department into two independent departments: strategic procurement (sourcing) and actual procurement (buyer) to check and balance each other.

She thought she could sit back and relax with this kind of institutional arrangement, but she soon discovered that the profit margin of her chamber of commerce was significantly thinner than that of other peers.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Qingning Chamber of Commerce only needed to support her as the boss, and it was replaced by other big and powerful cultivation forces, who opened such a non-profitable chamber of commerce, I am afraid that the entire sect would have been forced to drink the northwest wind.

Since everyone purchases goods from various places to supply the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, and the bidding prices of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce are all treated equally, it is obvious that there is a problem within the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

According to Li Qingning's judgment, the source of the problem is most likely the purchasing department.But no matter how hard she searched, she still couldn't find any substantive evidence.

The "one troublesome thing" she told Yang Lu earlier was actually referring to this problem.

But in Yang Lu's view, the corruption problem in the procurement department is at most just an appearance, behind it reflects the irrational design of the entire Qingning Chamber of Commerce system, and it is definitely not something that can be solved by catching a few corrupt elements.

Even for modern companies, it is not easy to eliminate corruption in the purchasing department.

Most of the heads of the procurement department of Chinese modern family enterprises are the chairman's younger brother, wife, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephew and niece, father-in-law and mother-in-law, etc.But even so, it is still difficult for family businesses to prevent family members from stealing from others, and even employees in the purchasing department accept bribes without telling the department manager.

Li Qingning is a polished commander, and he doesn't even have reliable family helpers. It is conceivable how difficult it is to eliminate corruption in procurement.

From a rational point of view, what Yang Lu should do now is to push away this troublesome matter immediately, but seeing the beautiful young lady in front of him getting more and more wronged, even tears were about to fall, he finally changed his mind.

Such a beautiful big beauty asks for help in person, if you don't help, are you still a man?
He took a deep breath and said, "Miss, do you know the root cause of the problems in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce?"

Li Qingning just shook his head blankly, and said bitterly: "I don't know... I clearly designed the management system of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce according to the theory of senior Luo Shen, a master of cultivation and management, but why does this kind of problem still occur? ?”

Even Yang Lu has heard of Luoshen, the master of comprehension management.This Elder of the Law Enforcement Hall of the Wuliang Sword Sect 500 years ago was the original author of the first edition of the "Regulations on the Management of the Zhongzhou Sect". daimyo.

Elder Luo's book "Sect Management - My Theory and Practice in the Wuliang Sword Sect" written in his later years was even hailed as the bible in the field of sect management in the entire Kyushu cultivation world.

Although Elder Luo died of exhaustion 300 years ago, his management thoughts still have a profound impact on this continent.

Yang Lu has never read Elder Luo's academic works, but through the legislative principles disclosed in the "Zhongzhou School Management Regulations", he can also see that this old man is definitely a top expert in the field of game theory and mechanism design.

Seeing Li Qingning's bewildered look, Yang Lu sighed and said, "Management is the science of managing people. A good system arrangement is important, but so are the people who implement the system. In ancient times, there was a management master named Jobs. I once said that the most important part of an enterprise is recruitment, as long as you recruit the right people, you don’t even need to use management skills.”

Hearing Yang Lu's words, Li Qingning's expression suddenly fell down: "Senior Qiao is right, but our Qingning Chamber of Commerce only has so many crooked melons and dates to use. What should we do?"

(End of this chapter)