The Research Of Vendor Managed Inventory Under The Costume Mass Customization

With the progress of production technology and the improvement of economic level, the pursuit of personalized custom clothing products is becoming more and more popular for consumer, at the same time, clothing enterprises is faced with the problem of how to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction. The appearance of costume mass customization successfully integrates the advantage of customization and mass production, which can meet customer demand for personalized clothing products, and at the same time make full use of large-scale production to reduce the cost of the production. At present, the costume mass customization had made some achievement in production and sales area, but there is a big defect in inventory management. Inventory management of costume mass customization production play an important role in the supply chain, therefore, the implementation of efficient way of inventory management for enterprise has important significance.In this paper, through the way of qualitative analysis combine with quantitative research, this passage has a systematic study of the inventory management of costume mass customization. At first, this passage is guided by the theory of mass customization and the theory of supply chain, in analysis of costume mass customization production mode and the characteristics of the supply chain inventory management. Second, analyzing the present situation and problems of inventory management of costume mass customization, respectively from the perspective of clothing manufacturers, distributors and retailers to research their existing inventory management mode, points out the existing problems in the inventory management system from several aspects, and analysis the reasons of the inventory management problem, through analysis made a conclusion that the implementation of vendor managed inventory (VMI) is the important way to solve the existing problem of inventory management. Subsequently, delay in costume mass customization strategy as the background, through the establishment of VMI Arena software simulation model, to the service level, delay costs, inventory holding cost as a model of performance indicators, such as, respectively from the clothing manufacturers, distributors, retailers to redesign of the inventory management process. Finally, through the model simulation achieve make the conclusion, compare the result of the implement of VMI with before, and make the sensitivity analysis, combining qualitative analysis and the simulation results of costume mass customization under VMI to carry out the countermeasures.From the perspective of costume mass customization, this paper studied the mode of inventory management strategy. Through the qualitative analysis, lay theoretical basis for the implementation of VMI. On the basis of the simulation modeling, through comparing the result of implement cost and service level with before concluding that the implement of VMI can bring the enterprise benefit, both in the cost and service level, and affirms the significance of implementing VMI. This study hopes to provide reference for the implement of VMI in the enterprises under the mode of costume mass customization.