| There are two kinds of spare parts: spare parts used for maintenance and service parts. And the study of spare parts used for maintenance is comparatively far more than the study of service parts. And the study of service parts in car industry is much less. These years the profit of selling cars is declining sharply and after service become the new hot point. As one part of after-sales, car service parts is becoming more and more important. Accordingly it has practice significance to study the inventory management of car service parts.The management of car service parts is extremely complicated. The problems are as follows: Firstly, there are a variety of car service parts and the quantity of categories is increasing every year; Secondly, the demands for car service parts are indeterminate and hardly forecasted, furthermore the demands is different in different areas; Thirdly, car service parts have to be continuously supplied in the car life cycle to guarantee the quality of after service; Fourthly, the management of car service parts directly influences the satisfaction of clients, and consequently influences the brand of company, so lots of companies hold excessive inventories to protect their brand.At the very beginning of this paper the research background of car service parts is introduced in detail. Then we start with some data, analyses the difficulty and the countermeasure in studying inventory management of car service parts. And then on the base of classification management, we respectively analyze the distribution of inventory and inventory strategies for different car service parts. Firstly, we classify all the service parts into nine groups using two indexes: demand and response time of service. Then we set different inventory strategies for the nine groups of service parts. Secondly, we use a two-phase classification method and some supply chain management idea like VMI, JMI to optimize the distribution of car service parts inventory in our country at present. |
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