Inventory Management Case Study Of Metersbonwe

In this paper, taking the form of case study, from2008meters/bonwe listed by2012since the occurrence of some event on the problem of inventory management, includinginternal company set unreasonable inventory growth targets the backlog of inventory, toreduce inventory, accelerate inventory turnover, Smith barney, one side in the war on thestores to sell at a discount greatly, on the other hand to the joining trader channel,regardless of the interests of the joining trader, with mandatory on the terms of thecontract, transfer their own inventory pressure, to some extent, destroyed the inventory inthe supply chain collaboration, based on inventory management related theory, thephenomenon of Smith barney inventory management problem. Next to the inventorymanagement problems cause analysis, this paper mainly expounds from the aspects ofinventory management mode, metersbonwe is at present a few trying to implement oneof garment enterprises of supply chain inventory management thought, but from thereality, Smith barney is really still has a long way to carry out the ideology of inventorymanagement mode. Smith barney, with the domestic most of the implementation of the\"retail+join\" compound clothing enterprise sales channels, to the joining traderinventory management in traditional order mode, it is an almost no inventory demandforecasting method of inventory management, and Smith barney over most of ordersfrom the downstream of the supply chain alliance business, Smith barney requirement forfranchisees and order index, make franchisees can not be completely in accordance withthe order under the market demand, combined with the joining trader inventory demandforecasting ability is limited, Smith barney the inventory management methods, in fact,as a breach of the free market information feedback process, Smith barney can not timelyaccess to effective market information, lead to inventory demand bullwhip effect, and inaddition, this way of inventory management is not conducive to the construction andmaintenance of the supply chain collaboration relationship between parties and theinterests of the joining trader being overlooked. Problems cause analysis, the secondfrom an analysis of the inventory management performance evaluation method, Smithbarney mainly partial financial indicators to evaluate the way, hard to comprehensive,timely and correctly recognize their own problems of inventory management, make theproblem increasingly serious, accumulated to a certain degree after the attention of the manager. In the final analysis inventory management of market risk factors, this is theobjective cause of Smith barney inventory management problem. The final part of thispaper considering the Smith barney’s inventory management problems, and problems onthe basis of analysis of the reasons, put forward the corresponding Suggestions toimprove the inventory management, including improving inventory management model,mainly from the perspective of supply chain inventory management thinking, deepen thecollaborative inventory management concept, combined with actual application properlyjoint inventory management concept; Implement various inventory managementperformance evaluation methods, financial indicators and non-financial indicatorscombined application, and strengthen the evaluation of supply chain inventorymanagement, so that the Smith barney can timely find inventory management problems,better improve inventory management; Strengthen the inventory control, mainly fromtwo aspects of inventory cost price control and order control, through the balance of costsand reduce the overall cost of the inventory management to the lowest degree, the controlof market risk and, in turn, make the enterprise gain more profit, realize the ultimate goalof inventory management, at the same time also to improve the Smith barney inventorymanagement from the side effects of the problem.With the progress of science and technology and the development of economy, afterentering the21st century, garment enterprises facing the competition environment, greatchanges have taken place in response to a need to quickly to the market of clothingenterprise, a set of advanced inventory management, including to adapt to thedevelopment of the enterprise inventory management model, and the correspondinginventory management evaluation method, etc., it is extremely necessary. Hope thatthrough this case study, not only for understanding metersbonwe and help improve theirown inventory management problems, can also be adopted for domestic same compoundsales channels of the same type clothing enterprise inventory management problems,provide relevant reference.