Many companies are under management hardship due to increasing raw material cost and decreasing consumption, and competition is becoming more severe because of rapid technology advancement. For these reasons, inventory management for companies is gett...
Many companies are under management hardship due to increasing raw material cost and decreasing consumption, and competition is becoming more severe because of rapid technology advancement. For these reasons, inventory management for companies is getting more and more important to overcome these kinds of management hardship and to enhance management efficiency, and minimizing cost for inventory management is believed to be necessary. In fact, as it is difficult to manage inventory on real time basis, when actual inventory is investigated for a specified period, discrepancy in actual inventory open occurs especially for companies who have many of incoming and outgoing materials and large amount of materials. For this problem, most of companies have been performing various methods in order to decrease inventories. For examples, we've looked into lessons and improvement against regarding inventory managements through companies practicing methods for inventory management such as SCM, JIT, RFID and etc. In addition, we summarized the result of inventory management by existing literatures, and investigated effects on cutting cost by case studies for inventory management.
For instance, Yuhan Kimberly Co., Ltd and Lotte Mart decreased turnover ratio for inventories from 11 days to 5 days by their joint project representing they cut down more than 50 % of days taken for inventory in exhibition sales from 26 days to 12 days. SCM has its goal for achieving common benefits by establishing partnership not just for survival of one company, and JIT minimizes inventory stocks by removing all of waste factors. RFID is also a inventory management technique making it possible not only to manage incoming and outgoing materials but also to adjust productions by calculating real time-based inventory. Like all of methods mentioned above, all of companies are looking for inventory management methods well meeting their environments creating profits by those kinds of methods. Inventory management affects balance sheet of companies, and all members will have to make efforts for inventory management so that companies make profits.