Lu Ming, a business management graduate, is demoted to northwestern Guixi and handed a hopeless mess no one else wants: inventory has been piling up for eleven months, unauthorized cross-regional sales are rampant, and the rural market share has plunged from 41% to 19% in just one year.
Local distributors believe business runs on banquets and personal connections. Lao Zhou has spent ten years establishing himself in the region, weaving a tangled web of favors and accounts and putting obstacles in Lu Ming’s way at every turn.
Others rely on credit to lock in sales channels. Lu Ming trusts only his four-metric analysis model: inventory, payments collected, market share, and payment terms. One chart lays bare every hidden trick.
As a price war erupts, Lao Zhou is sure he has the upper hand. Then an audit team shows up without warning, and tensions among all sides boil over. Lu Ming uses the data to dismantle the problem piece by piece, steadily tightening the net until he wins back the northwestern Guixi market.
Before the dust can settle, an order transfers him to Binzhou. There, inventory takes 240 days to turn over, payment terms stretch to 110 days, and market share has dwindled to just 12%. Lao Wei, the local kingpin, mocks him in front of everyone: “Your data tricks won’t solve Binzhou’s problems.”
Lu Ming watches the numbers flicker across the screen and smiles calmly.
There’s no need to rush into analyzing the market. First, take a seat on a plastic stool in town, then settle everyone’s accounts.
Four-digit picture, stool, classic and beautiful 👍👍👍