Economic Observer Reporter Zheng Qingxin On January 25, according to the announcement information of the National Health Commission, from 0:00 to 24:00 on January 24, 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) reported 444 new confirmed cases and 16 new deaths. Three new cases of cured and discharged from hospital. 1118 new suspected cases have been reported in 19 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities).
In this case, protective products such as masks and other places are in urgent need of emergency.
logistics supply is insufficient
html November 25th, the first day of the Lunar New Year, and Yuyue Medical executives are still on the front line to supervise production and keep a close eye on orders and inventory. Chen Jian, secretary of Yuyue Medical, told Economic Observer reporters that "there is now negative inventory and the demand can no longer be met." Affected by the shortage of materials, although Yuyue Medical's production line and employees are well prepared, they still have not reached saturated production conditions. He called for multiple channels to increase logistics supply.Zhao Shuai, deputy general manager of Yuyue Medical, was the first to realize the severity of pneumonia on January 19. On that day, Wuhan came to an order and suddenly ordered 100 ventilators. He suggested that the company increase the production of respiratory products.
Yuyue Medical immediately set up a senior executive group to deal with the Wuhan epidemic, and Chen Jian is constantly keeping a close eye on the inventory of epidemic prevention products. At noon on January 21, Chen Jian found that it could meet the order volume when he checked the mask inventory. He breathed a sigh of relief. The situation immediately took a sharp turn for the afternoon of the 21st. Mask orders came one after another, and there was a situation of public purchases. All mask inventory of Yuyue Medical on No. 22 had been shorted. The situation of
made Chen Jian feel embarrassed. He told reporters that it is not difficult to get workers back to work and work overtime immediately. The problem is that many packaging materials companies have already had a holiday around January 15. The current supply of materials is very limited. There is a shortage of raw materials for packaging materials, chemical synthetics, ingredients, and antiviruses. Yuyue Medical is already working hard to coordinate materials, but the supply of raw materials cannot meet the current order volume and there is no way to continue production. He said that the mask production line has stopped production due to no materials.
He said that disinfection product lines and atomizers, ventilators, blood oxygen meters and other instruments are also working overtime to produce, and the main order volume comes from large-scale group purchases.
According to Chen Jian’s knowledge from many sources, Wuhan’s masks and protective clothing supplies should be abundant, and the problem lies in the last mile of transportation and distribution. He said that logistics itself is tight during the Spring Festival, and the volume is large, logistics is slow, and materials are transported in the past. Since traffic control is not known how to distribute it to specific hospitals, he hopes to clarify the coordination work of the last mile.
working overtime to produce
htmlOn November 25, a relevant person in charge of Zhende Medical told the Economic Observer reporter that masks are working overtime to produce, and the current material supply can meet the current order volume. Zhende Medical is actively communicating with suppliers to ensure subsequent material supply. Protective supplies such as masks are allocated and distributed by the government. Protective products are first guaranteed to supply hospitals, pharmacies and other medical institutions. In terms of logistics, Zhende Medical is located in Zhejiang Province, where Zhende Medical is located, transported by the company's own trucks and dealers' trucks. In other places, third-party platforms such as , SF Express, and postal are used to ensure logistics.Zhende Medical (603301.SH) is a medical dressing industry enterprise. In 2018, the company's masks and other protective products achieved sales revenue of 54.25 million yuan, accounting for 3.83% of the company's main business revenue; in the first three quarters of 2019, the company's masks and other protective products achieved domestic sales revenue of 51.88 million yuan, accounting for 4.07% of the company's main business revenue.
The masks currently produced and sold by Zhende Medical are mainly medical surgical masks, disposable medical masks, medical protective masks and daily protective masks. With the significant increase in market demand, Zhende Medical has launched emergency response measures to increase production efforts, coordinate raw material suppliers, and accelerate product shipments.
At present, Zhende Medical's employees have given up their Spring Festival vacation and devoted themselves to intense production.
transfers from overseas
"We are already allocating global medical supplies to supply domestically." On January 25, Zhang Yongchen, deputy general manager of Lanfan Medical Nursing Division, told reporters.Lanfan Medical (002382.SZ) is a leading medical device enterprise with a complete layout of medium and low-value consumables and high-value consumables. The main products of medium and low-value consumables are PVC gloves, health protective gloves, first aid kits, medical dressings, etc. High-value consumables are mainly cardiovascular and cerebrovascular products such as heart stents.
Zhang Yongchen said that Lanfan Medical Overseas Office is widely looking for sources of masks and other supplies around the world, organizing imports, and directly purchasing masks abroad to transport them to China. These tasks take time.
In addition, Lanfan Medical has opened all medical glove production lines, giving priority to ensuring domestic supply. Workers are working overtime, implementing three shifts and 24-hour production on the production line, and improving the efficiency of the production line, from the usual production of 140 gloves per minute to the production of 155-160 gloves per minute.
Previously, Lanfan Medical said that it had donated 1 million medical-grade protective gloves with the strongest protection capability and the lowest pinhole rate to the Wuhan New Pneumonia Prevention and Control Command for free to the Wuhan New Pneumonia Prevention and Control Command. It has contacted the Wuhan Red Cross Association and supplied it to medical and other relevant institutions through the association. It has been shipped on New Year's Eve.
Lanfan Medical said that at present, most domestic protective equipment manufacturers, including the company, have urgently launched an increase in production of masks, gloves, protective clothing, goggles, disinfectant wipes, and disinfectants, but due to the sudden increase in demand, the supply is still tight. The company has urgently contacted many overseas protective supplies suppliers and distributors who have had close business dealings with the company for a long time, and organized the supply of goods to send the aforementioned urgently needed protective supplies to the epidemic areas as soon as possible.
Lanfan Medical Emergency Command Team has called on and organized company cadres and some employees to give up their Spring Festival vacation, stick to their posts, ensure overtime and continuous production and storage facilities, and maintain stable product prices.
E-commerce support
Due to the recent epidemic of novel coronavirus pneumonia, some masks and other commodities related to epidemic prevention have seen prices rise and out of stock. Market supervision departments in various places are actively intervening in response to the hoarding of masks and the price increase in situ.
htmlOn November 25, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued an announcement requiring strengthening the market price supervision of epidemic prevention supplies such as masks, disinfection and sterilization supplies, antiviral drugs and related medical devices, and maintaining the market price order of epidemic prevention supplies.Previously, Shanghai market supervision departments carried out supervision and inspection of the prices of relevant sanitary products. Once verified, relevant operators will be punished strictly in accordance with the law for hoarding goods, raising prices, etc., and typical cases with serious circumstances will be exposed publicly. The Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Bureau also issued a notice that Guangdong has carried out comprehensive inspections, inspections and reminders, requiring retail pharmacies to clearly mark prices and not follow the trend to raise prices.
htmlOn November 22, Taobao issued a statement saying that it has issued a notice to all merchants selling masks on Taobao and Tmall platform, and that price increases will never be allowed. At present, Taobao has provided special official subsidies to Juhuasuan’s mask products with a subsidy of 10 billion yuan. htmlOn November 25, the reporter learned that JD.com , Alibaba, Meituan and Duodian issued a joint initiative on resolutely fulfilling their responsibilities and making every effort to ensure the supply of emergency materials, advocated the guarantee of express delivery services, carried out price monitoring, advocate rational consumption, eliminate hoarding, and protect hospitals with good materials.In addition, Suning has also urgently allocated masks, disinfectants, hand sanitizer and other supplies as soon as possible to ensure supply, and increase subsidies to ensure that prices do not rise and sales are at a fair price. According to the relevant person in charge of Suning Supermarket , in order to meet users' online purchase needs, the platform has locked in more than 500,000 masks and shipped online in batches. In addition, Suning.com actively mobilizes local procurement forces and uses offline teams to promote the procurement of protective supplies in many places. It is reported that as of press time, Suning Store has locked in the supply of masks and added 100,000 new units.
JD announced that from 8 a.m. on January 25, JD Logistics will officially open a special channel for rescue materials from all over the country to rush to Wuhan. JD.com pointed out that in order to comprehensively improve rescue efficiency and efficiently utilize resources, the channel temporarily only accepts assistance needs from local governments, public welfare organizations, enterprises, institutions, medical device manufacturers and other institutions to Wuhan, and does not accept personal donations for the time being.After the organization in need contacts through dedicated telephone or online customer service, JD.com will specially arrange personnel to verify the needs and implement them quickly and effectively. JD.com said that it will regularly publish the details of materials and institutions transported through the channel for social supervision. Special working groups have been established by
1688, Alibaba International Station, Taobao, Tmall , etc. As of 18:00 on January 22, 92 domestic mask manufacturers have been coordinated, and the total stock of masks that can be counted is 46.122 million. The above-mentioned manufacturers are expected to continue to produce 1.57 million pieces before the holiday; after the full resumption of production after the holiday, the daily production capacity is expected to be 16.289 million pieces. It is reported that the traffic direction of these cargoes is given priority to the severely affected areas and the front line of the fight against the epidemic, followed by places of gathering people, such as airports, high-speed rail stations and other areas. At the same time, do everything possible to meet the needs of the public.
In addition, Duodian Dmall has jointly promised to ensure supply with more than 100 chain supermarket partners across the country to make every effort to ensure affordable supply at an affordable price. The multi-dian big data monitoring platform maintains supervision of price fluctuations in epidemic prevention and livelihood products 24 hours a day.
