Study On Inventory Management Model Based On Third-Party Logistics

This thesis constructs four inventory management models base on Third-Party Logistics (TPL): Transport and Warehousing, Supplier Assistant, Manufacturer Assistant, TPL Managed Inventory. These models describe TPL from ability, function, partnership, and analyze the relationship between TPL and inventory management, which have prevalent meaning of guidance. This thesis consists of seven chapters:Chapter 1: This chapter introduces the backgrounds, research status, framework and innovation of the thesis.Chapter 2: This chapter reviews the correlation theory. According to VMI, JMI, CPFR, most of supply chain inventory management theories focus on buyer and seller, but don't pay much attention on TPL.Chapter 3: This chapter constructs three inventory management models based on TPL. Although TPL played an important role in inventory management, it hasn't participated in the core function.Chapter 4: This chapter constructs a TPL Managed Inventory model, which applies MRP to supply chain inventory management. This model can solve the dependent demand inventory problem in supply chain properly.Chapter 5: According to the shortcoming of the traditional researches on performance appraisal, this chapter adds two indicators to the indicator system, and evaluates the new models by performance evaluating.Chapter 6: This chapter makes a conclusion and outlook of the thesis.