Chapter 326 Completion Award
"The first phase of the project will be rewarded with an additional RMB 1 million, which is 200,000 US dollars a day in advance. We divided the project into four parts, corresponding to the project teams of BASF, Xinxing Group, Sinopec and the construction teams we hired ourselves. It will be distributed according to the ratio of 3:3:2:2..." Standing at the front of the conference room, Zhang Chao said while showing the legend: "In this case, BASF can get a reward of RMB 300,000 per day. If it is 10 days in advance, it will have US 600,000 US dollars. I think it can increase their enthusiasm."
"Have you ever calculated how much more they will spend every day if they want to increase their speed?" Zhong Zhigen sat on the main seat. He is the head of the strategic business unit. He must review all documents submitted by the business unit to Su Cheng.
Zhang Chao admires Zhong Zhigen very much. Parallel engineering is not something that can be done by just pulling out a person and doing it just by wanting to do it. It requires real genius, and only after 10 or 20 years of systematic training, and with talent and appropriate opportunities can it be trained. It can be regarded as a designer of the planned economy.
The difference is that parallel engineering design is a large group company, not a country. Of course, some multinational companies are not inferior to those of the country, so the level gap between good designers and bad designers may cause a cost difference of tens of billions of dollars.
The man who can reduce the cost of tens of billions of dollars to the company is naturally respected by Zhang Chao. He looked through the documents and said: "The labor cost of BASF is relatively high. If you work overtime, there is probably not much left for 60,000 US dollars a day, but we consider that as long as they increase their work efficiency, they can save 10 days... This is equivalent to free money and should be willing."
"But Mr. Su's opinion is not to save 10 days."
Zhang Chao's tone stagnated, and then whispered: "If you want to reduce the time, you must increase the bonus. We feel that this number is a bit unhappy..."
"How many?"
"We believe that BASF will be completed 30 days ahead of schedule. Their daily overpayment of direct costs exceeds $100,000, and the implicit cost may exceed $200,000. Considering the factors of the Labor Organization and insurance companies, we believe that only BASF will be interested in the daily completion reward of more than $300,000."
300,000 USD is 1.5 million yuan, and other companies cannot favor one or the other. As a result, they have to prepare a completion award of 5 million yuan every day, which is 1 million USD. This figure may not be rare abroad, but it will definitely cause an uproar in China.
Zhong Zhigen understood Zhang Chao's thoughts and said softly: "I thought about it all night yesterday. Actually, I also thought about the problem you mentioned. However, do you think 1 million US dollars is more than for our billion-dollar project?"
"Of course not much. Our installation cost will exceed $1 million per day. If construction starts a day ahead of schedule, we will recover more than $1 million."
"That's the reason. The first phase of the ethylene project costs $1 billion, and the completion award of 1 million is only one thousandth of the equipment price. This number is not as good as the one-day interest, don't you think?"
"But if we announce the bonus amount, we will probably become a national model in the first place."
"This is a typical example. I don't think anything is wrong." Zhong Zhigen tapped the table and said, "Just make it based on the $1 million completion award and let Mr. Su decide."
"I understand." Zhang Chao closed the planning letter, then smiled, and said, "We have asked Li Lin again. This little lady is not the one who forgives others."
"If we don't ask her a problem, she should be unemployed?" Zhong Zhigen said, blinking and laughing, "Just say I said it."
"I really retelled the original words."
"Tell me, I'm a bad old man, are you afraid that she won't do it?"
"You are less than 40 yet." Zhang Chao said suspiciously.
"It's just over 30." Zhong Zhigen still cares about age. The employees within Dahua Group are not old. Except for a few state-owned enterprises such as Huo Chang, it is always a bit inconvenient for older young people.
Zhang Chao laughed and slipped to find Su Cheng.
In the chairman's office.
Seeing Zhang Chao's plan, Su Cheng only scanned the numbers and made a decision: "It is feasible. The key now is to convince BASF. As long as they cooperate, there is probably no problem for the other companies."
Zhang Chao was so surprised that he said, "You agree?"
“What’s the problem?”
"The completion award of $1 million a day, do you know what the completion award was issued by the Ministry of Railways before? 1 million yuan was also criticized by someone in the newspaper."
"We look for Li Lin in the media. If we get scolded for a budget of tens of millions every year, it is the responsibility of the Public Relations Department." Su Cheng actually has no idea about $1 million. His youth and youth were spent in the era of millionaires. In his opinion, it is natural for a large company to take out $1 million.
But ordinary Chinese people are not. Even Zhang Chao has a relatively wealthy family, but he is only a household that costs 10,000 yuan. When he went abroad to study, he also regarded $10 as a huge sum. Now when it comes to $1 million, he is naturally worried.
However, Sucheng's must have given Zhang Chao confidence. He changed his breath and turned to laugh and said, "I'll talk to the people of BASF. Xinxing Group and other companies will be handed over to others. They probably want it."
Su Cheng nodded slightly, thought for a while, and stopped him and said, "It's not easy to give money. You have to send someone to explain it clearly with other companies. BASF is a foreign company and is responsible for the main equipment installation work and is highly technical. Therefore, our requirement is to only allow them to wait for BASF, and they cannot drag down BASF because of their slow speed."
"I understand, it's just to make them faster than BASF."
"Well, and you need to do it beforehand."
"This is simple." Zhang Chao said, hurriedly leaving.
"Wait." Su Cheng stopped him again and said, "What is the payment method, including emerging companies?"
“Three payments.”
"Renminbi?"
"Renminbi."
"Since that's the case, the completion award is given to BASF's USD, and other companies must be RMB."
Zhang Chao hesitated and said, "If this is the case, they probably won't be happy."
"If you are not happy, just give them a completion award alone, set it to 1 million yuan. You ask them if they do it." Su Cheng narrowed his eyes and said, "It is the early stage of the project. If you give them the impression that the Chinese are stupid and have a lot of money, your future work will be difficult."
Zhang Chao suddenly realized that he went to find people separately with the completion reward policy that was destined to cause controversy. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!