The Inventory Management Questions In The Supply Chain Management Environment And The Vendor-managed Inventory Strategy

Inventory management is the important content of the supply chain management, having a great effect on the enterprise's manufacture and marketing. After analyzing the traditional inventory management methods and the existing questions in the supply chain management, this thesis gives out a new inventory management method, i.e, vendor-management inventory(VMI), and analyzes VMI's originating reasons, economic income, application procedures and etc. At the end, the author gives some suggestions to our national companies for the purpose of promoting the inventory management level and competitive ability.The basic research content of this thesis is arranged as follows.Charter one is the preface to declaim concisely the research aim and meaning for this thesis.Charter two is analysis for the inventory management questions in supply chain management environment. From the beginning of the basic theory of inventory management, the thesis analyses the background and basic ideology of the SCM. The thesis also pays more attention to the uncertainty in the supply chain, especially the Bullwhip Effect. At the end of this charter, the thesis points out the existing questions in the traditionally inventory control models.In the next charter, the thesis gives the meaning of vendor-managed inventory and analyses the dynamic reasons for its coming out, considering of the research achievements and application activity in abroad.The propose of charter four is mathematic analysis for the economic effect of VMI. The thesis can confirm that VMI can decrease considerably the inventory level and total costs in SCM through model analysis and imitation calculation.In charter five, the thesis mainly gives the application procedures of VMI, including the factors affecting the utility of VMI, the information system structure and working procedures to put VMI into use. At last, the thesis gives some suggestion for our civil company for the propose of using VMIsuccessfully and enhancing the inventory management level.The last department of this context is the conclusion for this thesis's research achievement, and it points out that VMI will have a prosperous application future in our country.