| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 企業管理學系 === 98 === The products in modern industries have both short life-cycle and long lead-time. How to make inventory balance as well as buffers from upstream manufacturers to downstream retailers has been a highly emphasized issue for researchers. This case study aims at solving the deficiency of the inventory control of an electronic device producer in Taiwan which has production centers both in Taiwan and Mainland China. The company has applied the Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP) to enhance the management efficiency. But the huge cost and time-demanding effects of the system make the company fail to reach its goal. Based on the practical inventory information provided by the company, the researcher reviews its way of dealing with the inventory storage and classification as well as other factors such as lead-time and so on. What’s more, the researcher also makes efforts to figure out a way to better the effects and the management of the inventory.
This study is divided into two parts: the first part focuses on the classification of inventory and the second one is about setting the stock level. To understand the condition of the inventory, this researcher makes an analysis of the subject’s raw data and records the daily tracking history of the goods. The researcher not only classifies the inventory based on the criteria of value and need but also uses the proper specialties as the indicator of the stock. Besides, the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is also applied to present the relationship between these specialties and the stock. After that, the researcher adopts the classification to design a simple mode for the management of different items and the inventory.
The result of the study suggests that more suitable inventory classification and more proper policy of goods saving and supplements help to reduce the cost of inventory and promote the inventory turnover. If a company can manipulate the policy of the inventory properly and adequately, its inventory cost can be lowered as much as possible.
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