In fact, some of the members of the inspection team saw the headquarters of Hualong Clothing Company for the first time. When they first saw the towering building in front of them, they were very shocked.
In the past, many of them learned about this huge company from reports, but after all, they were all on paper and had no particularly clear feelings.
But these buildings have brought a real impact to them. The data that had been on paper before have become vivid, and they can fully feel what a giant enterprise is.
Just the headquarters of a company is a central business district, and the number of office workers in it is 100,000. It has a much different impact than the factory we just saw.
Zhao Yi and Zi Yanran were used to the buildings here and didn't feel much about it. They also noticed the expressions of the inspection team, so Zi Yanran specially introduced some of the headquarters of Hualong Clothing Company to the inspection team.
When they learned that the number of office workers in these high-rise buildings was close to 400,000, they were even more shocked than before. This is what a metropolis should be like.
In fact, except for the headquarters of Hualong Clothing Company, the headquarters of Zhao Yi's other companies in Shenzhen are no smaller than that of Hualong Clothing Company.
Like Polaris Company, although the number of employees is slightly lower than that of Hualong Apparel Company, the total number of people is still several million. In addition to basic production workers, the number of R&D personnel and other personnel accounts for a much higher proportion than that of Hualong Apparel Company.
This also causes the headquarters of Polaris Company to be larger than the headquarters of Hualong Clothing Company. Others, such as Huansha Textile Company, Shangtong Trading Company, etc., also have large-scale building complexes.
To be honest, Huansha Textile Company does not need such a large office area at all, just because the land here is so cheap now, and their company is not short of money.
Although Zhao Yi strictly prohibited these companies from engaging in investments unrelated to their own business, this did not include their own office buildings, so they took advantage of this loophole to build their own headquarters on a large scale.
Although Zhao Yi knew their little thoughts, he did not stop them. Regardless of whether they could use it now, they might still be able to use it in the future. Besides, if they did this, they could also promote the development of the surrounding area.
As long as they don't break the rules, Zhao Yi usually won't take care of them. Therefore, Baiwei Food Company, which is headquartered here, is also following suit. It has also surrounded a large piece of land in Shenzhen and built a headquarters that is even larger than Hualong. The apparel company headquarters is bigger.
It's just that it's still under construction and won't be completed for a while. Even the headquarters of Hualong Clothing Company has only recently moved here. Before, their various departments were scattered throughout the city.
When Zhao Yi first saw the headquarters construction plan of Baiwei Food Company, he felt strange. According to this trend, would they continue to expand the scale in the name of building office buildings
Despite this concern, he still approved the application of Baiwei Food Company. In fact, Zhao Yi also felt that the current land price was too low, and it was no different from giving it away for free. It was unjustifiable not to take advantage.
As for the sequelae, he can just step in and stop it when the time comes, and it won't cause much of a problem.
Zi Yanran introduced the company's headquarters to the delegation and led them to the production dispatch center. This is the central nervous system of the production process and is a must-visit place for the delegation.
However, after they came in, they found that the real situation was completely different from what they imagined. Logically speaking, if you want to schedule such a huge production task, the number of personnel should be very large. As a result, this department only has more than 100 people.
It was in sharp contrast to their imagination, and judging from the status of the staff, they were quite relaxed, not as nervous or busy. Occasionally, there were tasks that the scheduling system could not handle, and tasks that required manual processing were specially marked.
Zi Yanran asked the person in charge of the production scheduling center to explain their production scheduling system to the inspection team. The entire system is composed of many subsystems, such as the order system, production resource system, scheduling matching system, etc.
However, these subsystems usually do not require human intervention and are mainly used to record data. The system that the staff of the production dispatch center usually works on integrates the key data of each subsystem into one system.
What is reflected is the current scheduling results and problems that arise during the scheduling process. Those that require manual intervention will be highlighted, and all other things will be completed by artificial intelligence.
When the entire production scheduling system was demonstrated to the inspection team, they felt that this system was incredible, much more powerful than they imagined, and the data flow processing at every moment was also quite terrifying.
This also verifies Zhao Yi’s previous statement on the necessity of computer education in the compulsory education stage, that is, future information technology will affect them everywhere in society and economy.
After reading this, Zi Yanran led the delegation to the clothing design department. This department has a very large number of people and is very large. It is impossible for them to read it all. They just need to let them understand the clothing design process of Hualong Clothing Company. .
The most critical thing in the clothing design department is the clothing design intelligent simulation system. This can be said to be the soul system of Hualong Clothing Company, and it is the core technology at the core.
Without this system, it would be too difficult to compete with other companies in the fierce international market.
Others can produce new clothing designs every month, but yours is slow. No matter how good your marketing is, it will be slowly abandoned by users.
Hualong Clothing Company, which has this intelligent design system, allows each brand to put new designs on the shelves within a week, so that users of these brands do not have to worry about having no clothes to buy.
When Hualong Clothing Company was first established, it would plagiarize the design elements of major well-known brands in the world, and then use the intelligent design system to recombine and assemble them into new clothing designs, which were then sold.
That's because when the company started, the number of designers was very scarce, so it had to do so. Now the company has a very large number of designers, and a large part of them are elites recruited from abroad.
The current situation is that many new clothing design elements are created by designers within the company, and then recombined through intelligent systems to generate various clothing styles of different styles to meet the preferences of different groups of people.
With more and more data in the design element library, the intelligent design system is becoming more and more intelligent. Especially after the systems of many companies under Zhao Yijiang are connected to primary artificial intelligence, the degree of intelligence is even higher.
The current intelligent clothing design system can already design some elements by itself, but compared to designers, it still seems a bit naive.
Just because the intelligent design system intelligently comes into contact with the designs of these designers, and then creates again through these designs, it is difficult to break away from the shackles of the past.
Designers are living people, and clothing design inspiration comes from life. They naturally have an advantage in this regard, which is incomparable to current artificial intelligence.
However, with the popularization of informatization in the future, many things in life will also be reflected on the Internet, which will allow artificial intelligence to feel the breath of life. At that time, it is really not sure who is strong and who is weak.
According to the arrangement, Zi Yanran asked the designer to operate the intelligent design system on site, from determining the design idea to issuing system instructions, and then the system automatically generated all design plans that conformed to the design idea.
Then the designer selects the design plan he wants from these generated plans. After confirmation, it is a group discussion.
After the discussion is approved, it will be reported to the head of the design team. After approval, the production task can be directly issued through the system.
The whole process is quite simple, at least to outsiders, the work efficiency has been improved many times, allowing the members of the delegation to once again clearly feel the super power of informatization and artificial intelligence.
This is the message Zhao Yi hopes to convey to the delegation, allowing them to see the huge influence that informatization and artificial intelligence have on today's corporate management and production relations.
After reading this, everyone went to the brand operation department in the same building and randomly found a brand operation team to let the members of the inspection team see how Hualong Clothing Company builds its brand and the related ideas for brand operation.
Seeing the brand operation of Hualong Clothing Company, they have more theoretical basis for Hualong Clothing Company to grow into an international clothing giant in such a short period of time.
The first is the international perspective. Hualong Clothing Company’s customers are mainly overseas. Without an international perspective, it is difficult to operate the brand. After all, if you don’t even understand people’s real needs, how can you provide customers with satisfactory products
Secondly, regarding the control of psychology, the brand's clothing is more about meeting people's psychological needs. It is very critical to conduct a detailed analysis of the hearts of the target groups and control their consumption habits.
The last thing is the utilization efficiency of channel resources. Although the channel resources of Hualong Clothing Company are very large, they are limited to each brand operation team.
So how to make the brand more successful with limited resources? This is what the brand operation team needs to focus on, and it is also where they compete most fiercely with other teams.
Fortunately, there are intelligent systems to assist them in this regard, allowing them to clearly understand the resources they have and then design operational plans based on these resources.
Even the intelligent system will score their operation plans and provide them with relevant suggestions from multiple dimensions, allowing the brand operation team to better improve their operation strategies.
Each brand has different positioning and target groups. Operation strategies suitable for other brands may not necessarily be used on this brand. In other words, the operation strategies of each brand are different and need to be more targeted.
This is why Hualong Apparel has established an independent operations team for each brand, because although the experience in this area has some commonalities, it also has its own unique independence.
The artificial intelligence system can help them solve common operating strategies, or basic operating strategies, and what is left to the operations team are those operating strategies unique to their own brand.
This can not only reduce the workload of the brand operations team and improve their work efficiency, but also allow them to spend more time on research on brand characteristics.
This is why Hualong Clothing Company has launched thousands of brands, but each brand has its own unique charm and has won market reputation and the trust of consumers.
You must know that the apparel industry is a traditional industry, completely different from those high-tech industries. It is a highly competitive market. Moreover, companies in European and American countries have been operating in this industry for hundreds of years and have much greater advantages than us.
Even under such circumstances, Hualong Clothing Company still occupies about 50% of the world market. This is a quite remarkable achievement and can be said to be unprecedented.
If Hualong Apparel Company was only a clothing OEM, it would not be difficult to achieve this goal. As long as the quality could be guaranteed and the price offered was low enough, it would be able to grab a large number of orders in the market.
However, Hualong Clothing Company's orders are basically their own, not OEM orders, and the brands sold on the market are also their own brands.
The gap here is across the Pacific Ocean. The former is just making hard money, while the profits earned by the latter are no worse than those of high-tech products, or even much higher than them.
This can be seen from the annual summary report. The net profit margin of Polaris is just over 20%, which is already a very good performance in the technology field.
The overall net profit margin of Hualong Clothing Company is not impossible to reach more than 40%, or even 50%. This is still the overall profit, which is lowered by their low-end brands. Those high-end brands and luxury brands have extremely high profit margins. Imagine.
After viewing this place, the inspection team came to the Resource Scheduling Center. Although it was busier than the Production Scheduling Center, the number of people here was not much larger, only about 100 people.
The reason why it is more lively than the production dispatching side is that in addition to the automatic allocation of resources by the intelligent system based on data performance, many departments will provide their own new plans, which requires communication of more resources.
This is something that artificial intelligence cannot do. After all, data is dead, and the development of affairs changes. Some human intervention is required according to the changing situation.
However, it is unlikely that the personnel of these dispatch centers would engage in malpractice for personal gain, because every dispatch they make needs to be fed back into the system, and any manual adjustments made will be specially marked.
If there is no persuasive reason, it will be easy for the people above to find out, and then it will make them miserable, and the gain will not be worth the loss.
After the Resource Scheduling Center demonstrated the resource scheduling system to the inspection team, it hastily ended the inspection here because the nature of the work here is similar to that of the Production Scheduling Center.
After inspecting this place, they basically had a look at the intelligent management system and management system of Hualong Garment Company. At the end of the inspection, the delegation also wanted to see the data center of Hualong Garment Company.
At present, except for Zhao Yi's companies, which all have data centers, it is difficult for outsiders to understand what a data center is. This is an unfamiliar matter for the members of the inspection team.
And after looking at it like this, everyone is also very interested in data centers that provide informatization and intelligent support for the entire enterprise, and really want to see what they are like.
The data center of Hualong Clothing Company is an independent office building. Although there are not as many people here as in other departments, their working space is indeed not small at all.
The people who work here are basically computer room maintenance personnel. There are very few software developers. They only provide maintenance services for existing systems and are employees of Fanxing Software Company.
Therefore, most of the space here is used to store servers and supporting facilities, and there is very little space used by office workers.
When the inspection team entered the data center computer room wearing dustproof suits, the first thing they saw was the rows of racks storing servers. The sheer number of them simply refreshed their understanding.
"How many servers are there in your data center?" Zizheng asked the person in charge of the data center.
"The number of servers in the entire data center is currently about 10,000, which can temporarily meet the company's current business needs, and will be added based on business needs in the future," the person in charge said.
Among so many servers, servers that emphasize computing and data storage are the most numerous, while other servers are very few.
The reason why so many computing servers are needed is that artificial intelligence takes up very high computing power. It is not easy to run artificial intelligence smoothly.
After Zhao Yi successfully developed primary artificial intelligence, he installed it on a supercomputer and it was not an ordinary supercomputer, but was specially designed based on the computing characteristics of artificial intelligence.
Otherwise, it cannot be done with one or two supercomputers. The artificial intelligence installed by Zhao Yi in various enterprises is not actually a real artificial intelligence. It can only be regarded as a clone of the primary artificial intelligence, with a much lower level of intelligence.
Otherwise, with this ordinary server of less than 10,000, it would not be able to run at all, let alone provide so many application services.
"Then the investment in your data center is not low, right?" the counselor asked again.
"Our total investment in the entire data center is 5 billion yuan, including 3 billion yuan in servers, 1 billion yuan in supporting facilities, and 1 billion yuan in other software and hardware." Zi Yanran replied.
The reason why the investment in servers is so high, with an average of about 300,000 per unit, is mainly because these servers were customized by Polaris Company with the help of Zhao Yi's enterprises.
Not only is the hardware performance much higher than outside, but it also adopts a brand-new design scheme, using a fully immersed ** design, which accelerates the heat dissipation effect of the machine, while also reducing the noise of the machine and improving the efficiency of the server. .
This is something that only companies like Hualong Clothing Company can afford to invest in. Ordinary companies don’t say whether they can use it or not. At least they need to consider the cost and weigh it in their hearts.
"So expensive?" This is what everyone thought after hearing Zi Yanran's words.
"Is building a data center so expensive?" asked the counselor.
According to the data Zi Yanran said, the price of a server itself is equivalent to the price of a high-end car, and the cost of running the server all year round is much higher than the cost of using a car.
Most companies really can't afford it.
"That's not necessarily true. It depends on the level of intelligent services that need to be provided. For example, general Internet projects, according to the scale of Hualong Clothing Company, do not require much funding." Zhao Yi said.
This is true. The reason why Hualong Clothing Company's data center is so expensive is mainly because it runs artificial intelligence, otherwise it really doesn't cost much. (End of chapter)