R Supermarket Chain Inventory Management Information Systems Analysis And Design

With the development of globalization and the open policy of the retail market in China, domestic chain retail trade, as a new business mode, is having a great opportunity as well as difficulties and challenges which never existed before. The main reason for the holdback of development of our retail chains is the poor inventory management and the bad situation of application of information technology.R supermarket chain is a private enterprise in Suzhou district, which has been booming in recent10years. However, the problems caused by poor inventory management have become the obstacles to its further growth. Some slow-selling goods lead to excess inventory and some bestsellers are always in short supply in the chain stores, which greatly affects the service and the capital turnover and utilization rate of the enterprise. By doing a deep research of the enterprise and making an analysis of the operation of its inventory management, the study finds that the MIS in use now lacks an effective inventory management module with the conception of supply chain when originally designing. The problems occurring in the MIS are as follows:isolated island of information, rough method of inventory control and less attention to vendor management.The study is meant to design a new MIS of inventory management based on the theory of supply chain management after the analysis of problems stated above. The new system of inventory management is supposed to strengthen the communication of information, provide practical and flexible inventory control model, and contribute a module for evaluation of vendors and VMI. The new system is developed with Object Oriented Method, which is convenient and efficient in the process of design, modification and maintenance of the software. The study tries to solve the problems caused by inventory management of R supermarket chain with the new system, and achieve the goal of reforming the methods of inventory control, which can turn out to be a practical way to implement its informatization management, enhance the comprehensive strength and promote the overall development of the enterprise.