A Study of KD Parts' Inventory Control for the Taiwan Automotive Industry -A Case Study of Y Company
| Autor: | Sun Wei Tse, 孫瑋澤 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 96 Due to petroleum price surges globally and Taiwan economy declines in recent years, Taiwan automobile sales market scale shrinks from five hundred thousands cars annually as the peak to only thirty hundred thousands cars annually. Since expanding market share and increasing profit has been a difficulty to automotive manufacturers in Taiwan, how to reduce unnecessary expenses becomes a crucial activity to them. Because a car is composed of thousands of components, the inventory cost accounts for a huge proportion of production cost. Inventory management is very complicated for Taiwan automotive firms. Too much inventory not only causes stagnating capital but also results in scrap if market trend changes dramatically. However, insufficient stock will affect the operation of production line. Furthermore, it’s very harmful to entrepreneur’s image when after sales customer satisfaction dropping according to short supply. This research is about the inventory management of a listed automobile manufacturer in Taiwan, and the object of this study is the inventory imported knocked-down component for after sales market, which possessing the biggest percentage of inventory cost. This thesis began with literature review on inventory management to acquaint researcher with inventory theories. In-depth interview with case company to know the status of supply chain for KD parts. Use the ABC-VED analysisl to analysis the KD inventory data of 2007 on Y company, and compare the inventory performance index with ABC-VED inventory strategy and current strategy. The main finding of this research was that the two main index in Y company “stock month” and “immediately supply rate” have obvious promotion in ABC-VED simulation result in this case. The research suggestions are as following: 1.The stockholding strategy of the case company can apply the results from inventory simulation analysis. 2.Establish formal inventory ABC-VED analysis for corporate inventory management and inventory strategy. |
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