Currently, with the development of science and technology, competition of marketing becomes more severity. Be faced with these questions, such as client’s requirement become changeful, ordering time become short, Manufacturing enterprise find that the control of inventory is so important. Proper inventory could ease up the imbalance of production, and it could also satisfy the occasional order, solves out of stock problem. However, many manufacturing enterprises hold too many inventory, spend a great of money on them, especially the cost of raw and processed materials. These may block the development of the enterprise. Hence, we should look for some effective ways to resolve the inventory problem, satisfy the requirement and make the cost become least.
This paper first presents the basic definition of inventory and basic theory and method of inventory, analyze the reason and effect of different inventory control ways of manufacturing enterprise. It introduces several inventory control ways in the mode of tradition management, such as ordering point, and some inventory control ways in the mode of contemporary management, such as MRP, MRPⅡ, JIT. Then, this paper set forth several inventory control ways in the mode of supply chain management, VMI, JMI, CPFR. In the end, analyze an example by using the theory of inventory control, find out the problems of inventory control, and bring forward some advice for amelioration.
