Based On The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Inventory Management

Holding certain amount inventory is necessary for normal medicine enterprise running. But inventory cost is huge , almost 80—90%% of the whole logistics cost. In the other words , inventory cost is 32-36% of the whole product ones. Therefore, if there are some good solutions to the inventory issue, the economic benefit will be huge. While the competition between enterprises has developed into competition between whole supply chains. Under supply chain management condition, it requires that inventory should be integrated and optimized. Inventory management in the medicine enterprises is not good for lifting the benefit of the enterprises, the development of the inventory management is on the calendar.Under supply-chain-management condition VMI, JMI and CPFR is the key way to improve the inventory management . In this essay, the theory of VMI, JMI and CPFR is introduced in detail, the difference between them is listed too. The medicine enterprises can make use of this inventory technology to save their cost, to integrate their resource , then to strengthen own competitive strength. In the end of the essay ,the standard that can be utilized to measure if the new inventory way is effective or not is listed.