The current textile market has gradually entered a state of dormancy. Weaving companies are taking the lead in taking holidays, and dyeing factories are also entering a state of holiday one after another. But it may be a bit premature to say that the textile market before the Spring Festival is over. Because the entire textile industry not only depends on the “face” of weaving, printing and dyeing companies, but also the “face” of more people at the end of the year, you have to see it.
Goods They were rushed out, but shipping became a problem
The end of each year is a happy time for companies that have orders in hand, especially those with a large number of orders. It may not last as long as the pain. Because the first thing you have in front of you is the endless queue in the dyeing factory. When you are exhausted and finally get all the orders out, you find that you can’t even find a truck to deliver the goods.
According to feedback from a trader in the Shengze area, they received orders for more than 700,000 four-sided bombs at the end of the year, but they did not expect that these orders turned out to be a “sweet trouble.” Because at the end of the year there are no longer a few companies similar to theirs, and the number of dyeing factories specializing in four-sided bombing is already limited. In the end, all the four-sided elastic orders on the market were concentrated in those dyeing factories. You can imagine how busy these dyeing factories were, and there was no specific time for pressing the cards.
The rush for goods in the last few days was almost thrilling. Two days before the production was suspended, they actually still had orders that they had not processed before starting. The day before the production was suspended, there were still several vats of fabric that had not been put into the dyeing vats. . In the end, through various communication and negotiations, they finally got all the orders out before the production was suspended. But then a new problem arose – the delivery truck could not be found. Since their orders are all from foreign trade customers, the delivery is just sent to Shanghai for warehouse. But this short distance of a hundred kilometers becomes far away at the end of the year, because most logistics companies are already in a semi-holiday state.
An employee of a logistics company that specializes in warehouses from Wujiang to Shanghai said that their company’s holiday is on January 17, but in fact many truck drivers have returned to their hometowns early. , it is still difficult to find a suitable truck at this time.
The trader mentioned above needed to ship more than 40 tons in the past two days. Finally, he contacted multiple logistics companies and found two trucks to transport this batch of 40 tons. The fabric is sent away. But there is still a warehouse of goods that are being inspected and rolled, and there will be at least two more shipments to come. As for the delivery trucks, they have not yet been located.
The eternal topic at the end of the year — Asking for money
What is more painful than not being able to rush out the order or not being able to ship it is not being able to get the payment back. Asking for payment is almost a necessary process for every textile company at the end of the year.
In the current market, all companies that have no orders and have not taken holidays are doing the same thing, which is waiting for their receivables to come back. Due to the bad textile market and lack of orders in 2019, in order to compete for limited orders, some textile companies not only cut prices and promote sales, but also made great concessions on payment methods. There will be an unusually large amount of goods with arrears this year, and it will be at the end of the year. The situation with accounts is very common.
According to the person in charge of a weaving company, they have been short of orders this year. As long as there are orders, customers will almost always ask for payment. The short period of arrears can be one month, and the long period can be three or four months. But fortunately, they will not owe new customers. What they can owe are some old customers, and they all trust each other. These debts will eventually come back, but it will take longer or shorter. It’s already January 10th, and they haven’t taken a holiday yet but are waiting for customers to get their money back.
It is always a bit of a dilemma to ask for payment from customers at the end of the year. If you rush, you are afraid of offending the customer, and there may be no orders placed in the coming year; if you relax, the customer may give away all their cash to someone else. Suppliers can only keep delaying their payments.
It is the end of the year, and all kinds of factories are gradually entering holiday mode, but the work of textile workers is not over. The most important thing for textile workers at this time is to deliver the final order in a timely and accurate manner before the end of the year, and to ensure that the payment for the entire year’s orders can be recovered. </p
