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1、March 2020 How Chinas consumer companies managed through the COVID-19 crisis: A virtual roundtable Xin Huang, Alex Sawaya, Daniel Zipser Greater China Consumer and Retail Practice Jan Craps Motonobu Miyake Jean-Michel Moutin Feng Hua Song Belinda Wong Dr. Wenzhong Zhang Jan Craps is Zone President f
2、or Asia Pacific, AB InBev, and Chief Executive Officer Motonobu Miyake, CEO of Lawson (China) Holdings; Jean-Michel Moutin, Asia COO at LVMH Perfumes and Cosmetics; Feng Hua Song, Vice President of Erdos Group and GM of Erdos 1436 Brand; Belinda Wong, Chairman and CEO of Starbucks China; and Dr. Wen
3、zhong Zhang, Chairman of Wumart and Founder of Dmall. They offer perspectives on the chief difficulties they faced, the measures that proved most successful in mitigating the human and business impacts of the virus, and how their operational emphasis shifted through the epidemic. They agreed that cr
4、eating, communicating, and delivering new business plans in an uncertain environment was among the most difficult challenges they have ever faced. Acting fast to provide protective gear and sanitizer, additional insurance, and other health-related benefits, emerged as the most effective strategic re
5、sponse, as this was crucial for maintaining morale. As the crisis deepened, digital communication with employees, both of safety measures and operational changes, and messages of support to customers, became vital in keeping strategic responses on track. With stores closed, businesses doubled-down o
6、n digital initiatives, including contextualized WeChat campaigns, online-to-offline and omnichannel sales, community commerce, and pure ecommerce. When stores reopened, contactless in-store ordering systems helped customers and employees feel safe. The respondents also said planning to immediately r
7、eopen offline stores was critical to maintaining company spirit during the crisis. Many also suggested the experience has brought their companies closer together, while accelerating transitions to digital as they bring operations back to normal. Below is a collection of reflections about their exper
8、ience working under lockdown conditions, collated in the hope that executives in other markets can better adjust to similarly testing circumstances. McKinsey: What was the most difficult challenge you faced during the COVID-19 outbreak? Motonobu Miyake: The biggest challenge was maintaining operatio
9、ns while keeping employees safe when it was unclear whether customers were infected. We hand-carried medical goggles and protective clothing from Japan as it was difficult to source these and other in-store consumables like disinfectant, masks, and non-contact temperature checking devices. Store ope
10、ning conditions were also tough to coordinate as they differed by region, and according to rules imposed by the buildings in which they are housed, both of which changed frequently. We made sure staff were aware that if they acted to comply with local regulations without consulting supervisors, they
11、 would not be penalized, and that clear and 3How Chinas consumer companies managed through the COVID-19 crisis: A virtual roundtable open communication about their situation was paramount. It was also a challenge to keep headquarter operations running as a result of restrictions on office working. B
12、elinda Wong: There was no playbook. The situation was evolving rapidly amid huge uncertainty, so we had to decide how to lead. We pivoted from opening stores in normal business a new Starbucks store opens roughly every 15 hours in China to proactively closing most of our 4,300 stores, and taking mea
13、sures to protect our 58,000 partners (employees). That meant unwinding everything I had learned over 30 years in retail. I had to completely reset my thinking, concentrating on protecting the safety of Starbucks partners and customers. Jean-Michel Moutin: The speed and severity of the crisis require
14、d daily immediate action either for the safety of our people, or for the continuity of our business. Fast decision making was required in a multi-brand and progressively multi-market environment, as well as crisis management for a type of crisis that was not specifically on our radar. Jan Craps: Nig
15、htlife venue and restaurant closures cut off our usual points of contact with consumers, so the challenge was to shift resources to in-home occasions via ecommerce and omnichannel; online to offline, and community commerce. This involved realigning cross-category promotions, and launching new in-hom
16、e consumer experiences like weekly DJ livestreams, and e-gaming events, while digital influencers conduct online sales. We also customized marketing around home-delivery, and linked this with our loyalty program to drive repeat purchases through the lockdown period. For social commerce, we piloted h
17、aving select consumers and employees act as brand representatives and group-buying coordinators for different compounds and residential developments. Putting all this together in double- quick time under lockdown conditions was hugely challenging for all involved. McKinsey: In hindsight, what were t
18、he most impactful actions you took at the onset of the outbreak? Belinda Wong: We were among the first major brands to proactively close most of our stores, to protect our partners, customers, and society, though this quickly shifted to reactive closures. At the peak of the crisis, 80 percent of our
19、 stores were closed. For stores that remained open, protecting our partners and ensuring they felt safe drove our early decisions. Apart from securing supplies of masks and sanitizing agents, we drew up elevated store operation standards, establishing a safety station at entrances to check customers
20、 temperatures, and ensure they wear masks before entering. All partners are required to undergo daily temperature checks, and wear masks at all times, while washing their hands and sanitizing surfaces at regular intervals. We also introduced the Contactless Starbucks Experience digital ordering via
21、mobile that minimizes human contact, and reduces the time customers have to stay in-store. Some stores continued to offer limited lobby service, with reduced seats to maintain a safe distance between individual customers. Dr. Wenzhong Zhang: We convened our leadership every morning and evening to re
22、view procedures and progress, and published nine versions of guidelines to counter virus transmission with the result that among our 100,000 staff there have been zero infections so far. Our team traveled to South Korea to purchase facial masks, which enabled us to have the first batch delivered to
23、Beijing on January 29, and ensure the capital did not run out of stock, despite sales of 18 million units in the first month of the outbreak. At the onset of the crisis, we supplied up to 90 percent of the masks sold in Beijing, in the process helping minimize virus transmission in the city. We also
24、 tripled supplies of fresh vegetables and meat to Beijing to make sure the city did not run out, and donated food and other supplies to hospitals and communities in Wuhan. Jan Craps: Leveraging our global procurement network to source protective gear and masks for all our 26,000 employees. We launch
25、ed digital employee health tracking and support, complemented by hygiene and health training, and measures to disinfect breweries and offices. We offered cashflow 4How Chinas consumer companies managed through the COVID-19 crisis: A virtual roundtable support to our wholesalers, and provided retaile
26、rs with toolkits including masks, gloves, and sanitizers so they could reopen. We also defined seven-day, 30-day, and 100-day action plans, starting with a war room focused on employee welfare and social responsibility, including donations of protective gear. The 30-day plan aimed to reshape the bus
27、iness and resume operations, while the 100-day plan seeks to grow the China business post-crisis. Big data allowed us to differentiate the speed and level of our investment by channel and region, while monitoring progress on a city by city basis. Jean-Michel Moutin: Protecting the safety of our staf
28、f was paramount. We defined safety measures, and in less than 10 days put in place a full supply chain to source and dispatch hundreds of thousands of masks to our staff all over Asia, in the field and at the office. That required an unprecedented degree of coordination between human resources and l
29、ogistics staff. We then acted to preserve the business by focusing on ecommerce while managing a supporting supply chain, and organizing new ways for our office staff to work from home. Feng Hua Song: Responding quickly and maintaining a strong relationship with customers and staff. We rapidly distr
30、ibuted masks to employees, and 500 VIP customers, along with a goodwill message. This might seem like a small gesture, but it helped instill confidence in our organizational stability, and was deeply appreciated by customers. Fast and effective communication was essential, so we prioritized sending
31、a letter to all our staff emphasizing that the company would be there to support them. Once we had dealt with the fundamentals, we formed a dedicated team to accelerate development of our online business, as we knew offline would be hit hard. We used WeChat to ensure our customers and staff, which w
32、as larger than usual because of Chinese New Year sales, were kept up to date. Later, we successfully launched a Valentines Day WeChat campaign with the “love is the cure” slogan that helped drive online sales of new apparel lines. On January 26, Erdos also restarted our cashmere coat factory, purcha
33、sed materials from around the country, and converted production to manufacture protective masks and clothing. We also instituted professional disinfection and sterilization procedures that helped bring the epidemic under control in Inner Mongolia. On the same day, the Chairman of the Board of Direct
34、ors of the Group personally called the President of Mitsui Corporation in Japan, drawing on a partnership built up over several years, and asked for help with the purchase of professional protective materials from around the world. From February 5, materials worth over 20 million RMB flowed into the
35、 country and onto the front lines of the fight against the epidemic. On February 9, we donated 8 million RMB to the Song Qingling Foundation to establish the “Erdos Warmth Fund” to care for and support frontline medical staff and their families. McKinsey: Is there any major difference in your action
36、s and focus in the first two- three weeks of the outbreak compared with more recently as things have started to stabilize/recover? Jean-Michel Moutin: Our first weeks focused on immediate decision making to preserve employees safety, and the continuity of our retail business and supply chain. Now, w
37、e are working on managing the recovery in China, with progressive reopening of our retail network, and preparing for the rebound. We are also analyzing the medium-term consequences of a worldwide outbreak, with an economic and financial crisis following in its wake. This will likely be combined with
38、 accelerated changes in our Chinese consumers habits, like moving even faster than expected to digital and ecommerce, while reducing their travel abroad for at least a few months. Focusing on crisis management does not mean that you have to give up long-term perspective and strategic capability buil
39、ding, especially in a market as important as China. Finally, in the last week, we have leveraged our China supply chain to secure orders for 40 million surgical masks, with the intention of distributing these to the French national health service. Belinda Wong: Early on, we committed to paying partn
40、ers even when our stores were closed, stepped up insurance benefits in the event that partners or their family members contracted the virus, and launched a Partner Assistance Program (PAP) to give counseling to partners and their families, with costs 5How Chinas consumer companies managed through th
41、e COVID-19 crisis: A virtual roundtable borne by the company. As the situation evolved, we shifted focus to reopening, which was critical not just for the business but also for company spirit. We started planning to reopen while store closures were still growing, prioritizing our partners to ensure
42、they were safe and confident in their working environment. Now, over 90 percent of our stores have reopened. Dr. Wenzhong Zhang: In the early days of the crisis, we concentrated on meeting demand for fresh and staple foods, as well as protective gear. There was enormous demand for home delivery, and
43、 contactless pick-up. We set up about 3,000 online-to-offline community pick-up stations, which covered more than half the 4,000 communities in Beijing. These played a significant role in keeping the city supplied as it was going under quarantine, and attracted strong mobile orders in the first 10 d
44、ays. We expect this model to continue growing strongly even now that the virus situation has come under control. Motonobu Miyake: In early January, we did not yet feel a sense of crisis, and it was only on January 20 that travel to Wuhan was restricted. After the city was blockaded, we web-conferenc
45、ed a leadership meeting involving Chinese management who had experienced the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic. They drafted advice on what the likely government regulatory response would be, and we delivered this across the regions, while adjusting opening procedures to keep employe
46、es safe. We also procured extra store consumables particularly masks and cup noodles. As the crisis evolved, the government or host building instructed us to close stores to prevent new infections. We then reviewed our manufacturing processes and made volume adjustments based on the principle of saf
47、ety first; we were concerned that factories facing staff shortages, and under pressure to meet emergency orders, might take shortcuts on hygiene, and so reduced our orders in line. We also looked into emergency financing in case we had funding difficulties. Right now, store supplies of consumables a
48、re almost back to normal, with relatively few shortages, and we aim to normalize headquarters and store operations. Our biggest task is to rescue the franchisee stores who have suffered economic distress. Feng Hua Song: The biggest difference is in the mentality of the organization, which shifted fr
49、om being unsettled to one of confidence after our response became clear, and people came to terms with ex-office work routines. Once the situation was under control, we shifted to strategic planning; looking at ordering remotely for the next season. We also began to work on revised three-year plans that included much more aggressive omnichannel targets, transforming our supply chain to be more agile, and other strategic moves to grow the business. Jan Craps: In the first few weeks, our focus was employee safety and preparing to resume commercial and supply chain oper