A Study On Supply Chain Inventory Management For M Company

In recent years,the intensified competition among original design manufacturers of mobile phone has played increasingly fierce.Efficient,agile and low cost supply chain operation is becoming the key area of the competition.Inventory control as the core content of the supply chain management has attracted the attention of the manufacturers.Many inventory problems also occurred in a famous mobile phone manufacturer “M”.This thesis will take the view of supply chain to study the inventory management of M company.Firstly,the basic theories of supply chain management and inventory management are expounded in this thesis,also with analysis of several models for the inventory management under supply chain environment.On the basis of this theory,through the analysis of the background and the inventory management status of M company,the existing problems of inventory management are put forward,including high inventory quantity and cost,material shortage etc.Then the reasons for these problems are analyzed,including inaccuracy of marketing forecast,simple inventory control strategy,information transmission not smooth and the lack of the overall sense of the supply chain.On the basis of this analysis,the improvement programs of M company supply chain inventory management are addressed.First is to change the accuracy of marketing forecast.The main performances are: advance the professional ability of the marketing team and the use of scientific prediction analysis tools to improve the accuracy of the marketing forecast.Second is to improve inventory control strategy.Make up the single control strategy by optimizing the purchasing strategy and introduction of push-pull production planning conception.Third is to use the advanced systems technology.Mainly to strengthen the implementation of SAP system and MES system to improve the level of inventory control.Fourth is to enhance the internal and external cooperation of supply chain.Internally improve the supply chain organization structure and KPI assessment,externally establish the supply chain partner structures and implement of Vendor Managed Inventory(VMI).Finally,the research work of this thesis is summarized.The inventory management of supply chain is actually an optimization process of the company operation process.Only by establishing the internal and external supply and demand planning management mechanism,the inventory management problem could be solved in the real sense,and the operation cost of supply chain could be reduced,accordingly the comprehensive competitiveness of the enterprise could be enhanced.