Study On Models And System Of Vendor Managed Inventory

High competition environment requires that present enterprises should pay more attention to both themselves and their relative enterprises. The competition between companies has become the campaign between supply chains. Relative corporations should build the collaborative partner relationships, and share their useful information by advanced information technology to reduce the inventory level, to improve supply chain's response, and at last to achieve the aim of improving the supply chain's capacity. Vendor-managed inventory is such kind of high efficient supply chain strategy.The thesis introduces the knowledge of supply chain and supply chain management, and analyzes the cause and countermeasure of bullwhip effect that is a key problem in the process of supply chain management, and then compares and analyzes four main supply chain management strategy of QR, ECR, VMI and CPFR. In the section 3, it studies on bullwhip effect under information sharing and vendor-managed inventory in a simple supply chain, and analyzes the inventory levels under these two conditions. The key of section 4 is to build a decision support system for vendor-managed inventory. Under the base of analyzing the core structure of the decision support system, it puts forward the simple solution of the decision support system for vendor-managed inventory. In section 5,it introduces the business process reengineer, requirement technology in the process of implementing a vendor-managed inventory project. It also proves the possibility of the third party logistics involving a vendor-managed inventory project. According to existing problem while implementing a VMI project, the thesis brings forward some useful suggestions at the end of section 5.