After being fired, I became the light of medicine

Chapter 225 Individual Packaging of Chinese Medicinal Materials
The current structure of the various business departments of Qingshan Pharmaceutical Chinese Medicine Company is relatively simple.

One part is the purchasing and warehousing department that specializes in purchasing and storing medicinal materials;
The other part is responsible for the retail business, or the retail business department of the online sales department.

Zhang Yang drove the car directly into the parking lot of the park. After a while, Ren Xiaomin took the lead in leading Zhang Yang to the warehouse where the medicinal materials were stored.

"Zhang Yang, this is the warehouse where we currently store our medicinal herbs!"

"This was where the previous company stored its products. After we took over, we urgently renovated it and added some ventilation and dehumidification equipment. Now it basically meets the storage requirements of most Chinese medicinal materials."

"Of course, for some precious Chinese medicinal materials and those with higher storage requirements, I have specially arranged for people to carry out more professional renovations on another smaller warehouse next to it to ensure that we can properly store any kind of Chinese medicinal materials!"

Zhang Yang nodded. He had visited Lotus Pharmaceuticals before and knew that Chinese medicinal materials had certain requirements for storage warehouses.

"Okay! Let's go in and take a look."

"Ah."

As the two were talking, Zhang Yang took the lead and walked into the warehouse.

With a quick look around, I saw several workers in the warehouse neatly stacking up bags of white woven bags filled with medicinal materials. Looking upwards, I saw a sign hanging in the air with the name of the Chinese medicinal material written on it - Bupleurum.

Zhang Yang was stunned. Not only did these white woven bags look familiar, but even the overall layout and details of the warehouse seemed familiar.

After a moment, he realized that the layout of the warehouse in front of him was exactly the same as the warehouse of Lotus Pharmaceuticals that he visited a few days ago.

Zhang Yang was a little surprised:

"This was all designed by Gao Dapeng?"

"Ah."

Ren Xiaomin was obviously quite satisfied with the overall design of the warehouse and nodded:

"I don't know much about the design of a warehouse for Chinese medicinal materials, so I gave it all to Gao Dapeng and asked him to be in charge."

"Of course, He Ping from Lotus Pharmaceuticals also came several times and made many suggestions. You can see that these bags of white woven bags were proposed by He Ping."

"He suggested that we pack all the purchased herbs into 25kg, 50kg or 100kg packages before storing them."

"Firstly, it is a good opportunity to check the quality of the purchased medicinal materials in more detail. After all, it is inevitable that some Chinese medicinal materials are inferior and sold as good ones."

"Secondly, after the products are classified and packaged according to fixed specifications before entering the warehouse, it will be more convenient for subsequent inventory counting and delivery, and management will also be more efficient."

"But this way, we have one more process from purchasing to packaging and storage."

Zhang Yang certainly knew the benefits of doing so, and waved his hand:
"Just add one more step. If there is not enough manpower, just hire more people. I think this process is very necessary."

"Yeah, me too."

As they were talking, the two of them gradually walked deeper into the warehouse. At this moment, three workers who were carrying medicinal materials nearby also noticed Zhang Yang and Ren Xiaomin.

One of the younger middle-aged men, who should be the team leader, recognized Ren Xiaomin.

Seeing Zhang Yang and Ren Xiaomin talking and walking towards them, he couldn't help but muster up the courage to whisper to Ren Xiaomin:

"Hello, Mr. Ren!"

Ren Xiaomin took a look and nodded slightly, but Zhang Yang suddenly stopped.

He looked at the three people who were carrying medicinal materials. Two of them were older, estimated to be in their 50s. The middle-aged man who had just spoken was not young either, in his forties or almost fifty.

There were obvious signs of time on the faces of the three people, and they looked a little vicissitudes of life. Zhang Yang could tell at a glance that these three people were real working people who had been doing physical work for a long time.

A smile appeared on his face, and he said:

"Thank you for your hard work. How are you? Are you able to handle it?"

The three of them were slightly stunned. They were just greeting each other out of courtesy, but they didn't expect that Mr. Ren and the other CEO would actually stop.

The middle-aged man hurriedly said to Zhang Yang:
"Boss, it's not hard, it's not hard! We can handle it, we can handle it!"

As they spoke, the three of them looked at Zhang Yang, with a hint of doubt in their eyes.

Ren Xiaomin, who was standing by, simply reminded him:
"This is Mr. Zhang Yang from our Qingshan Pharmaceutical Company. He came here specially to take a look."

Mr. Zhang, please!
The three of them were suddenly stunned, staring at Zhang Yang in a daze, unable to speak for a moment!

Zhang Yang smiled instead and said:

"It's not a big deal, just leave it at that. Good job everyone!"

"Also, if you have any ideas or difficulties in the follow-up work, please bring them up in time and we will find a way to solve them for you!"

"Okay, thank you Mr. Zhang, thank you Mr. Ren!"

After a brief conversation, Zhang Yang and Ren Xiaomin continued to walk into the warehouse, leaving behind three ordinary porters who were terrified.

Since the layout and design of this warehouse were designed by the professional Gao Dapeng, and with the help of He Ping from Lotus Pharmaceuticals, Zhang Yang took a quick look around and was quite satisfied.

At this time, more and more employees came to the warehouse pushing more packaged medicinal materials to prepare for storage, and many people recognized Ren Xiaomin.

Seeing this, Zhang Yang simply asked Ren Xiaomin to leave the warehouse so as not to delay everyone's work.

It was not until he walked out of the warehouse about ten meters that Zhang Yang looked back at the employees busy moving things in the warehouse, and then he spoke:

"Brother Ren, we ordinary employees are also working very hard. How much do they earn a month? Do you know?"

Ren Xiaomin was slightly stunned, then shook his head:
"Zhang Yang, to be honest, I'm not really sure how much it costs per month."

"Since we were short on time to set up the 'Chinese herbal medicine sales company', I handed over most of the staff recruitment work to a human resources company. The salary was probably around 4000 to 5000 yuan."

“Labor dispatch?”

Zhang Yang was a little surprised, but he could also understand what Ren Xiaomin said.

but……

After thinking for a moment, he said:

"Brother Ren, our Chinese herbal medicine company has just been established, and it is indeed a temporary solution to temporarily outsource most of the recruitment work to an outsourcing company."

"However, once the company is gradually getting back on track, it would be best if we could gradually convert hardworking employees into full-time employees..."

"To be honest, I always feel that labor dispatch is not very satisfying and it doesn't help to establish a corporate culture. We can't always expect outsourced employees to be truly loyal to the company, right?! What's more, we really don't need this little money!"

"Besides, even if we really have to fire an employee, we can just compensate him according to the labor law!"

"Ah."

Ren Xiaomin nodded, but Zhang Yang's mention of dismissal and labor law suddenly made them both think of Beifeng Pharmaceutical.

Back then, Beifeng Pharmaceutical dismissed the two of them and did not pay full compensation, so Zhang Yang finally established Qingshan Pharmaceutical.

It's just... I haven't heard any news about Beifeng Pharmaceutical for a long time, and I don't know how Mr. Ding Jian is doing recently. Thinking of this, the two of them looked at each other at the same time, and they seemed to have guessed what the other was thinking.

After a moment, Ren Xiaomin smiled and said:
"Okay Zhang Yang, let's do this as you say... Uh, let me announce tomorrow that we are going to make our employees permanent employees. After three months, any employee who performs well can be officially converted to a full-time employee of Qingshan Pharmaceutical."

"In this way, although everyone's salary may not increase much, the benefits will be greatly improved. I believe that many employees are willing to work hard for this position!"

"Ah."

While the two were talking, Zhang Yang quietly changed the fate of hundreds of ordinary dispatched employees of "Qingshan Pharmaceutical Chinese Medicine Company".

At this time, the busy employees in the warehouse know nothing about it, but soon they will receive news that will make them extremely excited.

After discussing the issue of the employees' regularization, Zhang Yang immediately prepared to go to the retail business department to take a look.

After all, after purchasing so many medicinal materials, they still need to be sold through retail channels in the end.

But before he could speak, Ren Xiaomin spoke first:
"Zhang Yang, after you've finished looking at the warehouse, I'll take you to the retail business department. I have something else to discuss with you."

"Huh? What's the matter?"

As the two were talking, Ren Xiaomin took the lead and walked ahead.

"That's right. Didn't you say before that you wanted to start a retail business of Chinese herbal medicines and a 'prescription agency' business?"

"So, these days when I really considered starting a 'prescription service' business, I discovered a rather troublesome problem!"

"According to our traditional offline prescription business, we would mix together nearly 10 or even 20 herbs in a prescription."

"However, the online prescription business is not as good as the offline business. In addition, Chinese herbal medicine is very special. What if the buyer says that the amount of a certain herbal medicine is not enough, or that a certain herbal medicine is missing, or even directly says that the quality of our herbal medicine is not up to standard after receiving the goods?

All the herbs have been mixed together, so it's hard for us to tell them apart, right?"

Zhang Yang was stunned. This is indeed a risk!
"Also, our medicinal herbs are all top-grade, so they will definitely be sold at a higher price than ordinary herbs."

"But all the herbs are mixed together. To be honest, I guess the patients are also worried. They don't know why our herbs are so expensive and whether they are really good herbs as advertised!"

"So... after comprehensive consideration, I want to pack each herb into small bags and sell them in individual packages!"

Small bag?
Individually packaged?

Zhang Yang didn't fully understand for a moment. Seeing this, Ren Xiaomin hurriedly said:
"Well, in front is our retail business department. There are some samples that I specially asked someone to make. You will know what it is when you see it!"

"it is good!"

Zhang Yang also became interested, so he quickened his pace and followed Ren Xiaomin towards the retail business department.

The retail business department is not far from the warehouse, in an independent three-story building.

As soon as he walked into the door, several employees stood up to greet Ren Xiaomin.

Ren Xiaomin responded one by one, and soon brought Zhang Yang to an office workstation, then quickly picked up a small basket of individually packaged Chinese medicinal materials from the table.

Zhang Yang took one look and understood instantly.

I saw the Chinese medicinal materials in the small baskets were sealed in small plastic bags in various specifications such as 5g, 10g, 15g, and the names of various medicinal materials were printed on the outer shell of the plastic packaging.

For example: 6g of licorice, 3g of Amomum villosum…

Not only that, Zhang Yang also noticed that the origin, number and packaging time of the medicinal materials were specially printed on the small bag packaging.

It can be said that all the information about the medicinal materials is provided completely on each bag of packaging!

Zhang Yang's eyes lit up. At this moment, Ren Xiaomin said:

"Zhang Yang, this is what I mean by small independent packaging!"

“Nowadays, the dosages of various herbs in most traditional Chinese medicines are basically the same. For example, the common dosage of astragalus is 10 grams or 15 grams;
For example, Amomum villosum is usually 3 grams or 6 grams. "

"So, we can customize the Chinese herbal medicine into 5g or 10g packages according to common dosages."

"When the time comes, the customer will provide us with the Chinese medicine prescription and we will prepare the medicine for them. We can then directly send them individually packaged bags of Chinese medicine!"

“After the customer receives the herbs, they just need to open the package and mix them together!”

"In this way, not only will the hidden dangers and after-sales risks I just mentioned on the road be eliminated, but patients can also personally feel the difference between each of our medicinal materials. By comparing them with other medicinal materials, they will know why our products are expensive and why they are good!"

Zhang Yang understood completely.

Pack various Chinese medicinal materials into small bags according to common dosages, and then send the corresponding medicinal materials according to the dosage on the prescription.

A dose of medicine may be packaged in a dozen small bags, but for customers, all they have to do is cut open the bags and mix them together!

Convenient, clear and clean!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but pick up a few bags in the small basket and look at them carefully. After a while, he looked up at Ren Xiaomin and couldn't help but sighed:
"Brother Ren, can't I see that you really have something?!"

"You have changed the traditional prescription mode of Chinese medicine that has been used for thousands of years, but I have to say that this method is really good!"

Haha!

Ren Xiaomin also laughed:

"That's good, but it will increase our costs."

"For this independent packaging process, we have to buy special equipment for mechanized packaging."

Zhang Yang thought so too, but compared with the benefits brought by small bags of individual packaging, a slight increase in cost is completely acceptable.

"Brother Ren, I'm afraid we can't save this money!"

“I can hardly imagine what kind of discussion will arise online when we officially put these individual pouches on the shelves and appear in stores!”

"Especially other Chinese herbal medicine companies and patients, will they be surprised?"

“Haha, it’s possible!”

The excellent warehouse design and the small bag packaging proposed by Ren Xiaomin made Zhang Yang's trip very rewarding, and his worries about Qingshan Pharmaceutical's "Traditional Chinese Medicine Branch" were completely put to rest.

He even began to look forward to what impact the official sale of individually packaged Chinese herbal medicines would have on the entire Chinese herbal medicine industry.

However, soon after finishing the inspection of the "Chinese Medicinal Materials Branch", he returned to the Qingshan Pharmaceutical office at one o'clock in the afternoon.

At 1:40 p.m., Zhou Hai appeared in the office on time.

"Mr. Zhang, long time no see!"

"This time, I have brought you two good news!"

(End of this chapter)