Study On The Application Of Inventory Management In Food Distribution Centers

With the rapid development of economy globalization in recent years, the keencompetition among enterprises made more demands of enterprise scientificmanagement.。Now the cost of production and the cost of sale in enterprises can't bereduced greatly. So cutting the inventory cost becomes the purpose of enterprisemanagement。Inventory management plays a more and more important role in theenterprise management. Lessening the inventory cost has been "the third source ofprofit" by which enterprises can earn enormous economic benefit。The logistics distribution center involves some services, including stocking ofgoods, storage, dispatching, package and distribution, which effectively combinesproduction with consumption by advanced technology of management and internet tomake the above operations effective, smooth and orderly, so it makes the best benefiteconomically and socially come true.The inventory control is an important content of logistics management;becauseof misleading decision of stock control the phenomenon that the supply exceeds thedemand and the demand exceeds the supply often takes place, which does greatdamage to distribution center.The article regards the inventory control model design of food distribution centeras the center and is mainly divided into four parts.First part introduces the concept and functions of the distribution center, and thepaper analyses its role what is very important in a business corporation。In the end, thepaper points out the malpractices of food distribution center in inventory managementThe second analyzes the development of inventory theory, and then,recommends concepts of inventory management.The third part analyzes the, and points out the limitation that they are suitable forinventory management of distribution center combining the characteristic of inventorymanagement of food distribution center. Introduces basically designed principle andrequest that the inventory control model of food distribution center. According to fieldsurvey, paper improves on existing inventory control models.The fourth part applies model on the practice.