The Study, Based On The Supply Side Of The Supply Chain Management Inventory (vmi)

Global manufacturing and economic integration make competition more drastic between companies. The competition between companies gradually changing to the competition between supply chains. As is known to us all, inventory management has a important role in company management. Inventory management has a more important role in supply chain management which acts as a patulous company, because inventory management not only affects the cost of member company in the supply chain but also restricts the integrated cost, whole performance and competitive advantage.So this change makes companies not manage inventories from the local point, but manage inventories in the supply chain as a integeration. This way to manage inventories can force the ideology of inventories management in supply chains evolution and improve benefit of inventories management in supply chains.In a general way, inventories are managed by the inventory owner. But, every member in the supply chain independently operate according to its own need, because they cannot know the client need and matching state. This will lead to reduplicate inventories , so that the whole supply chain cannot get the lowest cost and the inventories in the whole supply chain will become contorted along with the supply chain length.The ideal mode of inventories management in supply chains is a inventories management mode which emphasizes information sharing, benefit sharing and risk sharing mode.The coordination relationship can makes inventories management upgrade to supply chain management. The inventories management is not the action of the single company, but is the action between the coordination members. They bring forward coopration frame of inventories management. VMI system can break through conventional inventory management mode.It will use systemic and compositive means to manage inventories, so that the supply chain can operate synchronously. But,...