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安德鲁·卡内基:安德鲁·卡内基自传·补录 349
安德鲁·卡内基《安德鲁·卡内基自传》· Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · 领导
To make a ton of steel one and a half tons of iron stone has to be mined, transported by rail a hundred miles to the Lakes, carried by boat hundreds of miles, transferred to cars, transported by rail one hundred and fifty miles to Pittsburgh; one and a half tons of coal must be mined and manufactured into coke and carried fifty-odd miles by rail; and one ton of limestone mined and carried one hundred and fifty miles to Pittsburgh. How then could steel be manufactured and sold without loss at three pounds for two cents? This, I confess, seemed to me incredible, and little less than miraculous, but it was so.
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卡内基算了一笔账:炼一吨钢,要开采一吨半铁矿石,铁路运一百英里到湖边,船运几百英里,再转火车运一百五十英里到匹兹堡;还要一吨半煤炼成焦炭运五十多英里,一吨石灰石运一百五十英里。这么多环节加起来,钢却能做到两分钱一磅还不亏本,他一开始觉得难以置信,简直像奇迹。核心意思是:看似不可能的低价,靠的是把每个环节的成本都压到极致。做法是拆解全流程,找出每段运输、每道工序的浪费,用规模化和系统优化把总成本降下来。
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安德鲁·卡内基是美国钢铁大王,他在自传中回忆19世纪末钢铁工业的成本革命。
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你所在的业务,全流程里哪个环节的成本最容易被忽略?
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