The Research Of The Inventory Management Decision Support System Of The Chain Retail Business

From the first chain store was born in U.S.A., the chain retail business had developed swiftly and violently like the bamboo had bud after a spring rain in the world. In our country, the retail business, mainly based on traditional merchandise industry, was broken and entered the diversified eras, mainly based on the chain retail business. Looked from the area, the chain retail business spreads from coastal to hinterland and expands from the big city to the medium-sized city. Looked from the form, the chain retail business spreads in many kinds of forms such as supermarket, convenience store, storage market, department store and professional shop, etc. A batch of larger chain group companies with better benefit emerge. Inventory management is the most important one in all managements of the chain retail business. It is a sign of the logistics management level and concerns the key competitiveness of the chain retail business directly. Utilizing advanced computer technology to manage the inventory automatically and intelligently, it is the management tactics that some foreign large-scale chain retail businesses generally adopt and the developing direction of inventory management of the chain retail business. The research of inventory management DSS of the chain retail business involves various subjects and fields such as management theory of the inventory , decision support theory and computer technology ,etc. It mainly uses the modern inventory management theory, decision support theory and the technology of the computer to analyse a large amount work data and offer support for the inventory management decision.The purpose of the inventory management includes 4 respects of meeting the demand, offering supply, optimizing service and lowering costs. Inventory control method has ABC, economic order batch, quantitative order, time order and zero stock, etc. The basic principles of the inventory management decision have minimum cost, rational stock and flexible stock, etc.What this text studies is as follows, first of all, to make systems analysis of inventory management DSS from demand, business procedure, function etc, propose the basic decision support process of the chain retail business inventory managementincluding predicting, giving an alarm, stock to support decision and choosing supplier. Secondly, to analyse the structure of inventory management DSS of the chain retail business , have set up the inventory management DSS function model of the chain retail business, have proposed the algorithm of the model. Third, to take face-object approach and prototype systematic designment course, carry on overall structural design of the system, code design, database design, import and output design and function module design etc. Fourth, to put forward the main point of implementing systematically and management for operation.The conclusions in this text are important and practical to improve the inventory management level of the chain retail business of our country.