Chapter 117

With the internal barriers at the IT Center beginning to loosen, Li Banjia lost no time in aiming his strategic spearhead at another, more prickly and critical "deep-water zone": the Group Supply Chain Center. The general manager of the Supply Chain Center, Zhang Qinian, was nicknamed "King of Hell Zhang." As a founding veteran who had built the empire alongside Chairman Zhao Dezhu, he was notoriously stubborn and foul-tempered. He was demanding of his subordinates and obsessive about every minute detail of business operations. While the supply chain system he helmed had contributed immensely to the Group’s expansion over the past few decades, it had become antiquated, rigid, and inefficient—entirely incompatible with the "small-batch, rapid-replenishment, flexible, and agile" requirements of "Smart Retail." Three months earlier, when Li Banjia first launched the "Smart Retail" pilot, he had already clashed with this "King of Hell Zhang." Back then, it had taken a monumental effort just to secure a pilot quota for "flexible supply" on 20 SKUs. Now, Li Banjia was demanding the digitalization and intelligent synergy of the entire supply chain system; the difficulty was self-evident.