Strengthen the retail inventory management control Analysis

Abstract: The structure is a reasonable inventory of the material basis for effective marketing is a necessary condition for improving economic efficiency is an important indicator of the level of enterprise management, enterprise hidden losses and to prevent long-term development of key retail inventory control is one of the company's core technology . domestic low level of retail inventory management, the most prominent are: selling goods out of stock, a long backlog of slow-moving merchandise, inventory records are not allowed to, secure inventory, inventory turns poor. traditional retailers do not pay attention with the introduction of the Goods the combination of its own goods business, there is no unified plan by category of goods for business combinations, and combinations of these effective display of goods, out of updates, promotions and replenishment.

Keywords: inventory control, order management, inventory structure

An inventory management problems
1.1 post management is unclear, unreasonable distribution of competences
Commercial retail business inventory control is particularly important, but the irrational distribution of positions of authority, responsibility, regardless of various departments could not conscientiously perform their duties, such as: inventory manager is not paid in accordance with the chronological order of goods, resulting in the expired goods; goods entry staff not recorded in time, resulting in accounts and reality.

Purchasing management and sales management 1.2 out of touch
Divorced from the purchase and sale of revenue directly affect the realization of the purchasing department did not follow the current market conditions, reasonable arrangements for procurement programs, resulting in marketable products out of stock, slow-moving merchandise backlog seriously out of line with sales, business inventory turnover rate .

1.3 Inventory control system in place for monitoring and evaluating
Commercial enterprises large inventory of goods, supervision and evaluation system in place, the result will be white bars arrived in libraries, a strong sense of responsibility, personnel management, inventory of goods accounts and reality.

1.4 does not properly use inventory management system, inventory irrational product mix
Commercial enterprise inventory management software more, companies can not reasonably according to their choice of a good software, resulting in the actual work and management systems out of line.

2 How to solve inventory control problems in the system
2.1 establish and improve inventory management system, the control of incompatible duties
Inventory management processes according to business enterprises, the development of various departments of the responsibility, the authority for a reasonable division of labor is strictly prohibited procurement and approval, procurement and acceptance, management and accounting, auditing and management personnel for the same part-time.

Strictly stock clearance, commodity purchase for a prior declaration, Cengcengbaguan. Must be approved by the clerk, store manager, general manager of three signed the agreement can only purchase, approved by the managing director of foreign payment system, to avoid blind purchase, long pay section, the implementation of centralized management approach.

2.2 enhance inventory purchasing management, control and merchandise sales out of touch
Merchandise sales and inventory to achieve the quality of goods, the structure closely related to inventory goods are marketable, the stock structure is reasonable, how can the development of procurement plans, procurement plans of the development should consider the following factors:
(1 product itself with the nature of the commodity itself, the level of value, save the length of the period, the number of sales, stock purchases are affected plans. To fresh food, daily necessities mainly the high turnover of merchandise inventory requirements, speed, type of merchandise into the store, the sales must be achieved within two weeks, such as through the track, can not be achieved within two weeks of sales, must take measures to change the display or an increase in promotional measures, apparel and more varieties of home appliance products, determine time for a month, must be implemented within one month of sales of single species, such as not within one month of sales, the exchange must be coordinated with the new supplier, or an increase in promotional measures.

(2 and the shelf life of goods on the commodity shelf-life management is the key to all aspects of the process flow of goods must strictly follow the FIFO principle, all contact with the product must comply with all aspects of staff management, shelf-life requirements, standards, to achieve the ground into the fast-selling, high-flow requirements. receipt, all non-shelf life of fresh commodities to restrict the implementation of the shortest retention period of working principles, to ensure that goods sold enough time Libraries group replenishment, must follow the FIFO principle, and one by one check whether the shelf life of products to meet the requirements.

(3 and merchandising management. Normal sales, the product term and the nature of the product itself and the shelf life, but out of stock, slow-moving merchandise should be based on their situation to determine its duration. Unsalable goods are those that have storage However, in a period of time not sales of goods and these goods generally to new, mostly, but also because of changes in the market of goods into the phase-out period, resulting in a period of time without selling old products. bewildering variety of goods to retail stores by tracking goods into the store after the sale, which can effectively distinguish between the existence of unsalable goods, hence control within a certain period of unsold goods inventory, and analysis of measures to solve such problems.

(4 with suppliers of good and bad about. Retail enterprises and suppliers of a conflict of interest in the goods marketable when suppliers raise prices limited supply, retailers should be based on its relationship with the supplier reasonably good control of inventory. number of marketable goods and more into the off-season should have been prepared in the season when the waste out of stock.

2.3 out of system inventory of goods on a regular basis
Long-term (more than three months does not move decisively out of sales of goods, out of the development of specific principles for stock structure is reasonable.

3 establish a sound accounting system inventory
Now retail businesses generally use inventory management software, enterprise choose according to their inventory management system to eliminate manual intervention, the use of software to keep abreast of product supply and demand, inventory management and accurate data to determine the data based on all makes sense, so based on the system The basic data must be managed from a systemic point of view, all data related to the upper and lower part of the work to establish a working relationship of mutual validation, some layers of review, there are layers of calibration, this method ensures the implementation of inventory accurate data. to assure that financial data is accurate, and timely. According to the financial sector to provide basic data inventory management, strict examination, payment of the purchase account of the implementation of the system, account system has been developed, while beneficial to the business plan funding reasonable arrangements on the other hand, also increased the company's business reputation.

Withholding cut-commodity reserve system. In accordance with the approved ratio, price-cutting commodity reserves accrued for goods to offset the loss of handling the problem.

4 to establish monitoring and evaluating the system inventory, optimize inventory organizations, improve management
To make inventory management more scientific, systematic, standardized, practical work in inventory management rules of trial and error, starting from the sound system, plug the loopholes, the establishment of relevant monitoring systems.

(1 purchase risk-liability system. Provides people into the purchase of goods can not be below a certain gross profit margin, sales and purchase of goods linked to the interests, the backlog of goods caused by the formation of economic loss borne by the responsible person must purchase liability.

Links to free download http://www.hi138.com (2 commodities control system. Set up monitoring on commodity purchase cards, registration of the purchase time, name, quantity, method of payment, monthly sales, inventory etc., from the business office for tracking and monitoring, so as to avoid the formation of the backlog of commodity stocks in question.

(3 regularly stock merchandise queuing systems. Monthly stock merchandise line, sub-marketable, out of stock, slow-moving and other categories, monitor inventory by product line structure, additional time to adjust, compression and other measures to maintain the inventory is reasonable.

(4) Special Goods critical alarm system. The food, health products, cosmetics as well as shelf life, the period of critical commodities alarm system, alarm members of the shopping arcade, the establishment of accounting, case registration, and in the critical period prior to the Managers report to take timely replacement, return, discount sales and other means to properly resolve to avoid the expiration losses.

(5 commodity approval processing system. Correspond to deal with the problems listed by the group the list of goods, the store manager out of handling the competent manager, by financial, business, prices and other functional offices on-site to examine the physical transaction-pricing report General Manager approval before being handled.

(6) periodic inventory system, inventory of goods a month once the inventory of goods inventory, list inventory list, the Treasury check to see if inventory is correct, whether there is white bars arrived in libraries, to date, unsalable, damaged goods Solving, matching loss of all goods by price and by the store manager to be responsible for compensation, to ensure that real property.

(7 Auditing the system operator. The departure of the operator to conduct a comprehensive audit, including the inventory is true, the structure is reasonable, accounts receivable and other operating results, verified before departure. The operator of the operating period inventory losses caused by the full responsibility.

(8 to establish inventory targets and examination system, according to management requirements to determine the primary indicators of the inventory management of goods by the inventory status of the operation, the original target, the target and the actual rate of change between operating results and other key indicators constitute, a mandatory inventory management indicators indicators are as follows.

Run the overall inventory quality indicators:
① inventory turnover days = 360 / inventory turnover,
Inventory turnover = sales / average inventory,
② the amount of days of inventory = Inventory / Sales × 100% average daily amount of inventory,
③ stock a few varieties (SKU number: evaluation period the number of varieties in stock,
④ The total number of varieties of goods: evaluation period to determine the number of varieties must operate.

Period inventory management indicators:
① sticker ratio = X days without number of varieties of goods sold / total number of varieties of goods × 100%;
② extended inventory ratio = X days the amount of unsold finished goods / inventory total amount × 100%;
③ shelf-life indicators: length of shelf life remaining shelf goods shelf life of not less than the length of 1 / 3;
④ inventory records accurate inventory record accuracy rate = number of items / total number of inventory goods × 100%.

Inventory data management indicators:
① stock ratio = stock species / total number of varieties of goods × 100%,
② ratio = sales selling products out of stock out of stock before the N-species / total number of varieties of goods × 100%,
③ low stock varieties ratio = number of days less than the M-day inventory of species / total number of varieties of goods × 100%,
④ varieties of high inventory days inventory ratio = the number of varieties than X days / total number of varieties of goods × 100%,
⑤ negative rate = amount of inventory stock varieties negative species / total number of varieties of goods × 100%.

Inventory structure, management indicators:
① dynamic sales rate (sales of goods attendance = a number of items / total number of items × 100%;
② sales year on year growth rate = (current sales / year sales -1 × 100%;
③ inventory turnover ratio = gross profit margin × inventory turnover ratio.

The above inventory merchandise management system played an important role to optimize the inventory structure, elimination of hidden losses factors to ensure the operation of a virtuous circle.

Business information systems to optimize, inventory merchandise management system should be as inventory management, continually optimize the data structure and analysis system, a large number of statistical analysis must rely on information systems to complete, reducing manual intervention, the procurement plan for the development to provide a reasonable basis for In order to optimize the product structure to provide more accurate information. Links to free download http://www.hi138.com