Research Of Inventory Control In The Environment Of Supply Chain Management

With the rapid improvement of the economic globalization, experts predicted: the market competition in 21st century is not among enterprises but in supply chains. How to rapidly and effectively meet the diversification of customers' demand, and realize the low cost of company's operation, is one difficult problem, be confronted with many company. So, inventory problem becomes the focus of management researchers and company managers at home and abroad.The conception of supply chain offers inventory management preferable solutions. Supply chain management asks company to pay attention to the stock coatrol of the entire supply chain but not only to the stock control of itself, lessen the demand magnifying phenomenon as possible, establish the strategic partnerships with the supply chain companies, implement the information pooling and coordinated operation; in order to improve of the service capacity and the reduce of the stock cost, ultimately realize the win-win of the companies. Based on the idea of supply chain management, management schools at home and abroad made wide and deep research on the inventory management, and procured many new achievements, and further more the practically application of which in companies acquired preferable effect.This dissertation researches inventory issue from the angle of supply chain. Firstly, it introduces the background and the importance of the research. The second chapter introduces the relational base theory on inventory management, and puts forward the improvement of traditional stock classifying means: fuzzy clustering analysis used in the stock classification. The third chapter, based on the supply chain theory and the inventory theory, indicates the stock problems in the. supply chain-the demand magnifying effect and the uncertainty, moreover advances the primary solution. The fourth chapter makes an analysis and evaluation on the existing supply chain management modes, such as VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory), JMI (Joint Managed Inventory), CPFR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment). The fifth chapterdiscusses the multi-echelon inventory mode, and makes elementary research on the supply chain stock mode from the angle of centralized supply chain and the uncentralized supply chain. In the end, the dissertation summarizes the research conclusions and prefigures the possible further study in the relational fields.