<p>Supply chain management addresses the management of materials and</p><p>information across the entire chain from suppliers to producers,</p><p>distributors, retailers, and customers. In the past few decades, scholars</p><p>gave ample attention about the impact of inventory on Supply Chain</p><p>Management (SCM). Roughly speaking, research on supply chain management has</p><p>been mainly focused on three major issues. One is the behavior of</p><p>information flow; the second issue deals with inventory management; the</p><p>third issue is orientated to planning and operations management. In this</p><p>paper the second issue, namely inventory management will be discussed. The</p><p>author will follow the phases of classifying inventory; identify cost</p><p>factors; assess cost components; calculate EOQ; giving suggestion and</p><p>effect of inventory on supply chain will be discussed. The result is going</p><p>to become clear under the analysis of two alternatives by using MCDM</p><p>(Multiple Criteria Decision Making) method. The conclusion is when</p><p>optimizing the inventory management, both up stream and down stream</p><p>activities will run effectively.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:vxu-958 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Meng, Yue |
| Publisher | Växjö University, School of Technology and Design |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
| Relation | Rapporter från Växjö universitet : Matematik, naturvetenskap och teknik, 1404-045X |
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