The Research Of D Company’s Inventory Management Strategy In Information Sharing Supply Chain

Information sharing is the foundation of modern SCM（supply chainmanagement）, while inventory management is the key content of SCM,how to make full use of information sharing to increase SCM efficiencyis a topic people are keeping researching, D is a benchmark enterprise ofmodern SCM, the method measuring inventory by daily sales wasexecuted for years and now is forming a set of supply chain informationsharing based inventory management methodology. The core of Dcompany’s inventory management is engaging his suppliers decidinginventory level base on D company’s forecast, this is a totally customerrequirement oriented inventory management strategy with supply chaincoordination.To promote D company’s best practice in the industry, the paperintroduced D company’s DSI (Daily Sales Inventory) method and the bestpractice of measuring supply performance by STBL (Shortage to backlog)days, and we found a problem that the decision foundation is not sufficient when D company makes DSI strategy decision. Base onmass investigation and research, we invented a decision support model tosolve the problem how D company decide strategic DSI level for certainSTBL target, by application checking in a real case, the model wasproved successful. The DSI-STBL strategy decision model canquantitatively simulate the STBL result which is influenced by kinds ofplan behavior, and has strong extensible capability and broad commercialapplication prospect.