Study On Inventory Management Of Enterprise

Inventory is a kind of fluid assets that can satisfy the normal production and sales needs. It is also an important economic resource that can bring economic benefits to the enterprise. Nowadays, the stock funds of the enterprise in our country occupy about 20%-30% of the total funds; the rate can even arise to 50% in some enterprises (such as real estate enterprises. It determines that the management of stock funds plays an essential role in the entire funds management. Meanwhile it also shows that the phenomena of precipitation of stock funds are quite common and serious, which lead to the raise of the capital costs and inventory risk costs.From the beginning of industrialization, at home and abroad, people make exploration and study in the management of stock in theory and practice. They put forwards many methods and patterns about inventory management, put them into use and got the good results. In our country, influenced by many factors, there exist some problems in inventory management. Since it is a short time of the transformation from planned economy to market economy, the traditional pattern of inventory management still restrict people's though and behavior as well as the application and development of the advanced theory of the inventory management. As a result, the general level of management in inventory management is not so high in the enterprise of our country. The most prominent problem is the inventory level keeps high; even it shows the rising tendency.This thesis collects and refreshes the statements of public corporation, combined with the survey,information and observation, realize the status quo of the level and quality of inventory management. Then find out the problem from it and the reason, and analyze many factors that influence the inventory management (market risk, technical risk, information technology, the level of inventory management in enterprise). The thesis also starts from some factors that influence the inventory management, in connection with the problem in the inventory management and cases of the application of ERP system, and finally put forwards the advices and measures in strengthening the inventory management. The key points are to improve and perfect the essential institution of the enterprise and the design of ERP software about business process of inventory management and the internal control. After the analysis and study of the inventory management, the aim is to strengthen the inventory management in enterprise and make sure the safety of corporate stock funds, maintain the virtuous cycle of sustained capital, improve inventory turnover, reduce capital cost and the risk of inventory devaluation losses, raise the efficiency and effectiveness of the use of stock funds, add the capital in this cycle, and make the enterprise get competitive advantages to seek the further development.