In today's increasingly fierce competition among enterprises, supply chain management, as a management mode that can achieve multi-win, has greatly improved the profitability of all enterprises in the supply chain, and inventory management is one of the indispensable important modules in supply chain management.
In traditional inventory management, enterprises at each node operate independently, which may easily lead to problems such as vacancy at the retail level, excess inventory, large amount of capital occupied by enterprises, and amplification of demand variation.Supply chain management inventory (VMI) as an emerging across organizational boundaries of inventory management model is a good way to stop the bullwhip effect, through the transparent to partner sales data and inventory data such as ways to reduce the accumulation of goods, thereby lowering inventory holding cost, and improve the efficiency of supply chain operation, increase the benefit and achieve win-win situation.
This article first introduces the research background and significance of VMI, as well as the research status of VMI at home and abroad, and then briefly introduces the inventory management theory and supplier inventory management theory.At the same time, taking Media Group as an example, this article analyzes the changes of its inventory data after implementing VMI mode, and evaluates and summarizes its achievements.
This article has reference significance for the improvement of inventory management mode of other manufacturing enterprises in China and the improvement of enterprise competitiveness.
