Improvement Of ABC Healthcare Company Raw Materials Inventory Management Research

Inventory plays a very important role in the operation of production and enterprises. The improvement of inventory can enhance the service level of the supply of customers and meet the needs of production and sales of downstream users timely in accordance with customer needs in the whole supply chain system. Good inventory control can reduce the operating costs of the enterprise to improve the operation level. For example, the bulk purchase price has advantages of saving purchase funds. The mass production with small batch can produce a suitable scale efficiency.This paper mainly focuses on the supply chain management framework to improve the inventory management model. In the raw materials inventory management reform process has been a lot of experience and lessons, control methods and inspiration that ABC Healthcare Company how to carry out the raw material inventory management to get good results. ABC Healthcare(Suzhou) Co., Ltd is a professional manufacturer of medical imaging equipment and devices. The company’s inventory management from the beginning of the transferred project by extensive management to optimize and control the inventory, to provide the product’s market competitiveness through lean improvement. In the early days of the company, all of the projects were transferred from abroad and the business model was introduced to China in full replication. Because of the six product lines belong to different department and foreign countries, so that the same production plant has multiple different patterns and systems and makes the inventory management more difficult. The enterprise’s inventory management has the customer demand forecast distortion, the customer temporary order change, material purchasing negotiation ability and the company operation link and so on. The company improves the demand forecast management through the lean theory, optimizes the supplier management inventory, strengthens the enterprise operation management to improve the inventory controlling.As a result of the medical device manufacturing industry and the general equipment manufacturing industry, ABC Healthcare Suzhou Co., Ltd. explains how to select the appropriate supply chain management model, especially it must comply with the requirements of the Law of No.276 ‘The Regulations On the Supervision And Administration Of Medical Devices’ and ISO13485 ‘The Quality Management System of Medical Instruments’. It is helpful to make the reference and implementation to improve the raw materials inventory management for the similar medical devices manufacturing enterprises in China.