Fresh Agricultural Products Inventory Control Strategy Research

"Vegetable basket" problem is always the big problem to the residents and theirdaily life. Nowadays in home, Gasoline prices grow, city transport’s fines increase,packing material costs rise etc., all these factors directly lead to the logistics cost offresh agricultural products increase. In addition, the contradiction between the rapidexpansion of the city’s scale and the scarcity of land, leading to the land price of cityand suburbs’ soared, then inevitable increase the storage of fresh agricultural productscost. And these increased costs were eventually translated into the high price of freshagricultural products, pay by consumers. Therefore only reduce the cost ofagricultural products can suppress the rising prices of agricultural products moreefficient. This article selects the inventory part which the enterprise can control toresearch. Through to the enterprise inventory control strategy research to makeenterprise can with minimum inventory cost meet the needs of the market.The main part of this thesis first from three characteristics (biologicalcharacteristic, production characteristics, the market characteristics) that shows on thedifference between fresh produce and normal industrial products. And then discusssome inventory theory, which focus on the joint management inventory under thesupply chain coordination. Then the dissertation discussed ordering strategies, whichcloser reality condition and consider the fresh produce life cycle, besides, Plan periodis not order period integer times. The conclusion: under the assumption of demandrate depends on inventory level, the optimum order cycle must be longer than a lifecycle. Because at the initial period of the ordering cycle, ordering quantity greatlyincreased result in inventory level soared, this period earn too many profits which canmake up the final residual product spoilage cost. Another case, when ordering cyclelonger than life cycle but insufficient next life cycle, ordering cycle should be as far aspossible to closer the products life cycle, the more the better.Research of the anterior part is mainly about retailers ordering strategy by themselves, although it can optimize the retailers’ inventory quality, reduce theoperating cost. Today, under the competitive environment, supply chain as the mainbody of the competition, optimize the supply chain inventory levels can give morespace to retailers lower their operating costs. After that, the thesis introduce constructof joint management inventory under the supply chain, this phrase include the premise(strategic partnerships) of joint management inventory construction and theinformation platform construction of joint management inventory, eventually thethesis take Lianhua supermarket as a case, point out its main practices in the processof operation from the angle of joint management inventory, and give some revelationsto the other fresh produce retailers from these practices, the author combine withpresent practices of Lianhua supermarket give some improving suggestions to it.This paper’s research object is a kind of relatively difficult research object-freshagricultural products. Fresh produce has some biological characteristics, so during theresearch, author must consider its life cycle and calibration in the life cycle. Authorconsider the above mentioned questions, assuming that demand rate of goods dependon the levels of inventory, build the simple mathematics model reflect the relationshipof inventory’s level, calibration rate and demand rate. In the part of case study, thepaper select Lianhua supermarket as example, there are following two reasons: First,Lianhua supermarket is the biggest local chain supermarket, the rapid developmentof itself and some best logistics practices during the process of development can givesome reference to other enterprise; Second, Lianhua standard supermarkets aremaking transformation to operate fresh business themselves, these practices are theearliest in domestic, so the LIanhua case is the most appropriate case as the jointmanagement inventory of fresh produce for this paper.