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Chapter 161: 300 Million Units Produced in a Single Month, Orange Mobile's First Double Eleven (Please Subscribe)

Upon hearing this, Tang Qingshan, accompanied by several senior officials from the virtual academy, made a special trip to Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park.

Under the guise of a visit, they kept mentioning this year's graduating seniors in their conversations.

Chen Yansen understood Tang Qingshan's meaning and said with a smile that the technology and product departments could accept 200 interns, and as long as they met the requirements, they could all get a chance to become full-time employees after graduation.

Tang Qingshan nodded in satisfaction and continued, "This year, there are limited spots for students from impoverished families, and the number of part-time positions that can be arranged in the cafeteria, dormitories, and library is also limited. As your senior..."

“Pinbei Technology is short of customer service staff. I’ll talk to the HR department and ask them to hire 50 part-time staff first. You can arrange for someone to send me the list. Thank you, Mr. Tang, for helping me out of this urgent situation.”

Chen Yansen readily agreed before Tang Qingshan could finish speaking.

Even though it was Tang Qingshan who came to bother him, his way of putting it made it seem as if Tang Qingshan had solved his manpower shortage problem for him.

Tang Qingshan thought to himself: This kid is smart!

College students are cheap and easy to use, so Chen Yansen had no reason to refuse, and could also gain a good reputation from it.

Moreover, when Orange Technology applied for 3C certification, network access license, and radio transmission equipment type approval certificate, Tang Qingshan used his connections to expedite the process.

Human relationships are built on reciprocity; only then can they deepen over time.

Tang Qingshan was pleased with Chen Yansen's attitude and invited him to speak at the freshman party before leaving.

Chen Yansen was too lazy to do something that was all show and no real benefit, so he made up an excuse to decline.

Seeing that he had no interest, Tang Qingshan did not press the matter further.

After seeing Tang Qingshan and the others off, Chen Yansen returned to his office and received a call from Cao Dahua.

"Do you still remember Wang Hongde from U-Battery?" Cao Dahua's tone was filled with undisguised laughter.

"I remember hearing they can only take orders from knock-off phone factories now. You seem so happy. Did Wang Hongde get hit by a car on his way out?"

Chen Yansen sat in the chair, joking with a smile.

"No, but it's close. U-Power's batteries have caused problems for Transsion. There were four mobile phone explosions in Abyssinia this month, and all of them were caused by batteries supplied by U-Power."

Cao Dahua slowly explained, then added, "This matter has spread throughout the Shenzhen business community. Now no one dares to use Youpu's goods, and a bunch of people are demanding refunds with their contracts. As a result, yesterday, the authorities seized Youpu and detained both the people and the goods."

"You fought with Lao Zuo?" Chen Yansen asked suspiciously.

"Hey, I'm a good person, a teacher, how could I do such a thing? It's all Wang Hongde's fault for being too greedy. He desperately cut costs and squeezed his employees to make money, and he didn't care about quality control, which is why a large number of defective products were sold."

Cao Dahua quickly denied it and explained the reason for the matter.

"I see. I was thinking of dealing with him, but it seems I don't need to. By the way, Zhou Jinling went to Abyssinia. Will this affect our market expansion plans?"

Chen Yansen frowned and pressed for an answer in a low voice.

“I talked to Xiao Zhou. They run an Orange mobile phone store in the area. Before the incident, they could sell dozens of Orange F1 phones a day, but in the last two days, sales have been in the single digits.”

Cao Dahua sighed, his smile fading.

Everything has two sides. Wang Hongde not only screwed over Transsion, but also Orange Mobile.

Locals now have a great distrust of smartphones made in China; after all, who would want to buy a phone that might explode?
Within Orange Technology, the first-generation phone was named Orange C1, while the one specifically developed for the African market was Orange F1.

The Shenzhen factory produced only one batch, totaling 5 units, priced at $99.

Seventeen teams working to develop the African market have sold only 40,000 units in nearly three months, leaving 10,000 units in inventory in the warehouse.

After this incident, subsequent sales will likely be even more difficult.

“If they can’t handle it, then withdraw them all, replace them with a new group, and tell Zhou Jinling that I’ll give him one last month.”

Chen Yansen believed that Zhou Jinling lacked execution ability and gave Cao Dahua some advice.

If someone isn't capable, then replace them!
“Okay, I will talk to Zhou Jinling. Also, the other production bases will start production today, and Orange Mobile’s shipments will reach 10 units tomorrow.”

Cao Dahua responded and then delivered some good news.

The production plants in zones A1, A2, A4, and A5 have completed preliminary preparations, and production materials, employees, and production line equipment are all in place.

Monthly production capacity reaches up to 300 million units!

It is expected that the remaining 3.7 million pre-orders for Orange phones will be completed by mid-December.

Previously, Orange Mobile's factory had already shipped 120 million units.

"Pinbei will be launched soon. Once the JD flagship store is launched, we estimate that monthly sales will reach 180 million units."

Chen Yansen responded directly, saying he understood Cao Dahua's implied meaning.

It's simply that Orange Mobile's factory increased its production capacity too quickly, while Orange Technology's product range was too limited, and sales couldn't keep up with production capacity.

"Okay, I'll go get back to work then." Seeing that Chen Yansen understood, Cao Dahua smiled and hung up the phone without saying anything more.

Chen Yansen leaned back and fell into deep thought.

His next task for Zhang Cong and Zhou Ze was to design a budget phone and a flagship phone priced around 4000 yuan.

This is to seize more market share in the mobile phone market.

Apart from Apple, which of the following companies—Shanxing, HTC, and Nokia—didn't rely on the total sales of multiple models to make it into the top ten in terms of shipments?
He didn't think a monthly production capacity of 300 million units was too much; in fact, he thought it was too little.

As for Wang Hongde of Youpu, he found it amusing.

Before he could even make a move, Wang Hongde ran into trouble.

According to Cao Dahua, Wang Hongde will be imprisoned for at least two years for selling substandard batteries and causing a negative impact overseas. He is a typical example of the double punishment mentioned above.

Chen Yansen couldn't help but laugh out loud. After thinking for a moment, he called Zuo Hongyu and gave him Zhou Shouzhi's contact information.

Next, Orange Technology needs to adjust its suppliers to avoid repeating the mistakes of Transsion.

DST's supplier resources also have to be handled by Zuo Hongyu.

Once DST's financing funds arrive, Chen Yansen plans to have Gao Weilin negotiate with several top domestic screen and battery suppliers to invest in them while their valuations are still low.

Promote the localization of core components for Orange mobile phones ahead of schedule.

After receiving notification of the factory's increased production capacity, the e-commerce department immediately shortened the order waiting time for users from six months to one month, significantly reducing the waiting time.

……

...Shanghai.

Inside a bright and clean office building.

While her supervisor wasn't looking, Zhang Yanan secretly logged into Orange Mall to check her orders.

原本预发货时间是2012年4月7号，现在竟变成了2011年11月28号！
It was a full 5 months ahead of schedule!

I should be able to get the Orange phone by the end of the month?
Could it be that Orange Phone's production capacity has increased?

Previously, she had repeatedly urged Chen Yansen to ship the phones in the comments section of his Weibo account, and even said that she would send all the employees of Orange Technology to the production line to produce phones for these eagerly waiting users.

After all, everyone has spent real money to support Orange phones, but having to wait half a year to receive the goods is unbearable for anyone.

Zhang Yanan was overjoyed and was about to share the news on the Orange Community when she discovered that many buyers had noticed the pre-shipment time had been brought forward.

People are having a lively discussion in the Orange Community.

"Has Orange Phone had a change of heart? They've actually stopped using scarcity marketing?"

"My cousin works in a factory in Shenzhen. I heard that Orange Mobile has built four new medium-sized production bases in one go, and they will all be in stock after December!"

"Damn! Won't that scalper be dumbfounded?"

"Upstairs, you're not a scalper, are you?"

“Scalpers deserve to die! The official price of the phone is 1999 yuan, but they dare to sell it for 2500 yuan, making more money than Chen Yansen!”

Zhang Yanan stopped reading after this point; the subsequent posts went off-topic, filled with replies criticizing scalpers.

Previously, Orange Phone's monthly shipments were only 500,000 units, which was a drop in the ocean compared to the smartphone market, which was worth 200-300 million units annually.

Although Orange phones are available for purchase, the delivery times vary. Scalpers take advantage of this time difference to resell each phone for an additional 300-500 yuan.

Even though Orange Technology's e-commerce department required users to provide additional ID information and limited the number of orders placed by IP address, it still couldn't stop scalpers.

Many users eager to buy Orange phones actually paid extra to buy them from scalpers, causing the price of Orange phones on the secondary market to rise higher and higher.

the other side.

Lei Yijun sat in his office, pointing at the manager in charge of battery procurement and yelling at him.

He never imagined that he would fall into the same trap that Orange Phone had encountered.

Because Xiaomi phone users kept complaining about overheating issues, Lei Yijun wanted to change the battery supplier and optimize the design flaws in charging power.

They also followed Orange Technology's lead and replaced the phone's back cover material with one that provides better heat dissipation.

When the first batch of batteries arrived, it was discovered that the size did not meet the production requirements, so the automated assembly equipment could not be used, and the batteries had to be manually inserted into the slots.

"Mr. Lei, should we return this batch of 2 orders or...?" Li Wanqiang asked in a low voice, looking at the purchasing manager who was being scolded and looked disheveled.

"Let the factory find some people to install it manually."

Lei Yijun said weakly.

Shanxing is blocking Xiaomi's screen supply, the contract manufacturer is complaining about the small number of orders from Xiaomi, and now there are problems with the batteries, so the delivery time has been postponed again and again.

Users are constantly criticizing him for playing a trick on them!

Lei Yijun decided that supplying the goods should be the priority.

At this moment, he finally understood why Chen Yansen had gone to great lengths to build his own factory.

At least on the issue of production capacity, he is currently finding it difficult to coordinate.

He already knew that DST had switched to Orange Technology, giving it a valuation of $90 billion.

Although the market is large, if Orange Technology takes a bigger bite, Xiaomi will take a smaller bite.

Lei Yijun then realized that he had underestimated his opponent.

Three days later, Singles' Day will arrive.

Orange mobile phones outsold Apple 4 in just 3 hours at Taobao's digital home appliance fair.

After all, the Chinese version of the iPhone 4S has not yet been released, and the configuration of the iPhone 4 is outdated. In addition, the iPhone 4S has already been released overseas, and not many people are willing to buy last year's old model.

At 23:58 PM that day, Orange Mobile's total sales reached 49 units!

We're just 3000 units away from breaking the 50 sales mark!
Zhang Yong decisively hinted to the product director of the digital category to have his subordinates place 3000 orders for Orange, thus boosting the sales data to 50.

The next morning, Alibaba made an announcement.

Taobao Mall's third annual Double Eleven promotion achieved a total sales volume of 61.3 billion yuan!
Compared with 2010, it has increased more than tenfold.

JD.com's sales were only 10.6 billion!
Liu Qiangdong originally intended to use Double Eleven to counter Taobao, but unexpectedly, he was met with a rebuff.

I didn't even achieve one-fifth of Taobao's sales!
However, after learning that Orange Phone had contributed 10 billion yuan in sales to Taobao, Liu Qiangdong immediately called Chen Yansen and proposed to sign an exclusive cooperation agreement with Orange Technology.

During the Double Twelve promotion, JD.com is willing to give Orange phones a prime spot on the startup screen, pop-ups, and the promotion's homepage.

But Chen Yansen remained unmoved. He was willing to open a flagship store on JD.com, but he would rather not sign an exclusive agreement.

We may know each other well, but when it comes to making money, we still need to draw a clear line.

Having no other option, Liu Qiangdong hung up the phone and began personally urging the company to expedite the connection with Orange Technology.

He even wanted JD.com's design department to handle the UI design for Orange Phone's online store.

Chen Yansen knew in his heart that this was his last honeymoon period with Tao Bao and Jing Dong.

Once Pinduoduo is launched, everyone will likely fight tooth and nail.

"It's more lively with more people!"

Chen Yansen stood in his office, gazing at the darkening sky outside the window, and chuckled softly.

at the same time.

Meanwhile, the navel oranges that Zhang Yifeng sent from western Guangdong finally arrived on the first floor of the science park.

More than 20 boxes of different sizes of packaging were piled up, serving as a tool for the category team to review product quality and to check for any oversights in the existing packaging methods.

(End of this chapter)