A Case Study On The Inventory Problem Of Smith Barney

Apparel industry is an important pillar economy industry of China,relating lives of people.After the21st century, due to the developmentof social economy, the improvement of living standard of people, theApparel industry has been rapid development. however, there is a lot ofproblems in domestic clothing brand, one of the most prominent is theextensive management of inventory.As an example,stock of Metersbonwe is900million yuan in2009, justone year later, the number has soared to2.5billion yuan, the amount ofincrease is more than250%.And it accounts about half of its current assets.inventory takes up a lot of working capital, Although Metersbonwe hasluanch a series of inventory reduction measures, the improvement is stillslowly.By the end of2013, Metersbonwe remains about2billion in stock,and most of them are out-of-season products.A large number of inventoryis reducing profits, taking up the capital and draging the development,also even increases the risk of the enterprise.Based on the Metersbonwe, the inventory management of related theoryas the instruction, using a variety of research methods, from the Angleof view of the capital management to study the Metersbonwe clothinginventory management problem.Introductions to the full text includes fourchapters, the first chapter introduces the research background, theselected topic significance, the research both domestic and abroad,andthe structure of this article and research methods;The second chapterpresents the theory of inventory management related;The third chapterthrough contrast demonstrates the Metersbonwe clothing inventory isrelatively high and its influence;The fourth chapter analyzes causes ofthe Metersbonwe apparel inventory problem and put forward theoptimization advices.Based on the above research, the paper present some advices to apparelinventory management of Metersbonwe in four aspects, including perfectionthe methods of inventory management、improving operation efficiency ofsupply chain、attaching importance to the brand value of the buildingitself and strengthen the working capital management.