Research On The OKP Inventory Management Strategy

This paper firstly reviews the history of human society's production revolutions.By referring China's “Made in China 2025” strategy,the paper raises the conclusion that One-of-a-Kind Production(OKP)meets the market demand trends of personalized customization and quick reaction production.It has the consistent development direction of Nation's strategy of developing the high-end equipment manufacturing.This production model is surely will be one of the most important parts of our nation's industrial development.Then reviews the studies related to OKP and finds seldom study about stock management was carried out.However,it's obviously that stock management is extremely important.By analyzing the characters of the OKP company,this paper pointed out that ensuring delivery on time is the top priority,while increasing the stock turnover ratio is one of the most important means of obtaining competitive advantages.The paper explains the key points of scheduling control.By analyzing the demand-supply relationship as well as the job and resource dependency showing in the network plan,the paper raises the method of breaking down the demand-supply relationship of the critical parts,which are recognized by bottleneck classification,so that to rematch them in detail level,and reach a longer supply period.By analyzing and breaking down the demand quantity record,explains both sides must cooperate to handle the “unstable demand”.This paper also builds up the framework of jointly inventory planning based on scheduling control,as well as cooperation mechanism and the principle of risk sharing.The second half of the paper introduces the practice of H company,a TBM manufacturer,carrying out the jointly inventory planning strategy.This paper adds the “bottleneck” factor into the traditional ABC stock taxonomy and raises the managing strategies for each class.Furthermore,based on company H's reality,this paper raises the idea of “Supply-demand decomposition and managing upstream” on managing the bottleneck material;adds the feedback mechanism into the traditional VMI method;introduces the project-based control into the JMI method.Finally,by introducing company H's achievements,the feasibility and the effectiveness of these stock management strategies are proved.This set of inventory management strategies has important reference significance to extensive companies,especially the OKP companies...