The Study Of Inventory Management Pattern In China Chain Supermarkets

In the current field of circulation,retail chain has been a important form . It has been founded in some emerging industrialized countries and areas, and it impells the development and modernization of retail, and promotes the development and prosperity of economy. The creation and development of the chain store has been called"the third revolution of retail". In the developed countries, chain operation has been an popular operating way, and has above 1/3 market share generally. Although the new pattern was been introduced to China in 90's last century, it has developed rapidly. At present, its market share has been exceed that of department stores and it becomes the main force in retail industry.With China joining WTO, the chain retail industry in China is facing the attack from overseas developed chain supermarkets that has hundred years experience and vanguard technology. If we want to survive, we must improve , and we must grow strongly. For retail enterprises, the key to enhance competition ability lies in the quality of inventory management. However, our majority chain supermarkets still manage the inventory by hand. Therefore, we fall behind obviously the advanced overseas enterprises in the inventory management pattern.In the inventory management of retail, how to provide promptly and accurately inventory information for the operator always is a difficult problem. Under the traditional manual management, either the order point pattern, EOQ, or the ABC pattern, only provides all or a certain sort of commodity information, but does not provide the single commodity concretely. Moreover, the information is been provided after physical examination, so the information is lag inevitably. Therefore, our chain supermarkets unavoidably face with difficult problem of the commodity to be unmarketable, a huge backlog of fund etc. People were looking for a kind of more advanced inventory management pattern to solve these problems. The information age is coming, computer is able to handle large tasks and solve difficulties of manual operation, moreover the thought of inventory management also correspondingly has been developed. People can obtain the accurate inventory information promptly, and maintain all accrued working procedure by JIT inventory management pattern .At first, people have applied successfully this kind of pattern in manufacturing industry, and now the pattern has been popularized generally. That overseas chain supermarkets have applied JIT successfully indicates JIT inventory management pattern can be used triumphantly to reduce the costs and boost the competitiveness of chain supermarkets. Of course, the thought about inventory management is the trend in chain supermarkets in China. But there are some difficult problems that we must face when we apply JIT inventory management pattern in our chain supermarkets, such as the short history of chain supermarkets in China, the insufficiency of information technology, and so on.The target of thesis is:According to the characteristics of chain retail industry and basic theory and practice of JIT inventory management, The author analyzed the characteristics of chain retail industry in China , and explored the problems chain retail enterprices facing. Then, the author pointed out the measures to improve the inventory management pattern in order to develop inventory management of our chain supermarkets from this research.The basic train of thesis is:Because Chinese retail chaining has witnessed severe challenges after China's entry in-to the WTO,China retail chaining must boost core competitiveness . So the central thought of this paper is improving inventory management pattern in China retail chaining. Follow it, the paper put forward that how to improve inventory management pattern in China retail chaining by analysis. At last, the paper drew a conclusion: JIT inventory management pattern is the trend that the inventory management pattern in China retail chaining.The basic structure of thesis is:The author based on the difficulties China met after joining WTO, and put forward the core idea of this article, that is China have to improve the inventory management in order to enhance competitive ability. Then, the author the framework of inventory management in China, and also make some suggestions.The logic structure of this article is pointing out the problems, analyzing the problems, and and solving the problems.The main contents include:Preface: The introduction of background and aim of this article, the theory and method, as well as logical structures.Chapter1: Introduction of the feature and profit of chain supermarkets.Chapter2:Explaination of the operation characteristics and shortness of our chain supermarkets.Chapter3:Introduction of inventory management pattern of chain supermarkets.Chapter4: Analysis of development of the gap between chain supermarkets in China and that in the developed nations, pointing out some disease in inventory management in China.Chapter5: Introduction of JIT inventory management pattern and some concrete measure for our chain supermarkets.Chapter6: Explaination of two typical enterprises as examples, and indication of some problems about inventory management in China chain supermarkets that should be paid attention to.The main contribution of thesis is:The article points out that China chain supermarkets should apply JIT inventory management pattern in China chain supermarkets, and explain the current situation of JIT inventory management pattern of China chain supermarkets and the analysis of some examples.