| In the field of contemporary circulation, commercial enterprises chain management has become an important form. With China’s gradual relaxation of restrictions on foreign investment in domestic retail chains are facing unprecedented competitive pressure. For domestic consumers, local retail businesses of their values, the more accurate grasp of consumer behavior on a regional or national scale have different degrees of expansion. But in the actual competition, local retail chains will reflect the distinct disadvantage, which has become the most costly inventory holding direct manifestation. For chain retail businesses, inventory management control is critical to business profitability, competitiveness will have a direct impact.In business, how to provide timely and accurate inventory information to the operators, the retail business is an important issue facing. Information society, tedious manual operational problems due to the increasing use of computers and solved. At the same time, also driven inventory management concept forward. Timely inventory management as a new inventory management model, and provide accurate inventory information, reduce, eliminate the business can not be value-added jobs. However, the development of retail chains in our country, after all, history is short, and the West compared to developed countries, face many problems, the external development environment also limits the timely inventory management model in China’s popular applications.Through timely inventory management model applicable conditions of analysis, combined with S retail chains operating characteristics, proposed the development direction of S retail chains inventory management model and implement timely inventory management problems in the process of their analysis and recommendations are given. This paper can provide a reference point of view in the choice of inventory management model for our other retail chains. |