Journal of Business and Management
Vol 7, No 3 (2018)

IMPROVING INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND FORECASTING SYSTEM IN PT XYZ

Nirvana, Kinanti (Unknown)
Lestari, Yuliani Dwi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Oct 2018

Abstract

Abstract. PT.XYZ, as one of fashion retailer in Bandung is facing issue on how to optimize their operation management. Currently, the company does not have any proper calculation on determining how much stock they needed, level of stock should be maintain, the appropriate time to reorder the stock and any system to forecast the future demand. That condition makes overstock and stockout occur in the company. This study is conducted in order to identify the root cause of inventory management issue and design the appropriate policy for inventory management and forecasting system in PT. XYZ. The study is conducted by using qualitative and quantitative analysis. No system to determine the appropriate stock, order quantity, and the time to reorder stock, no system to forecast the demand are causes of inventory management issue in PT.XYZ. Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model is used to determine the new order quantity, and probabilistic and safety stock model to determine the reorder point (ROP) and minimum stock. The analysis finds out that the new proposed system can reduce the number of shortage, overstock, and decrease the total inventory cost.Keywords: Forecasting, Inventory Management, Economic Order Quantity, Reorder Point, Probabilistic Model

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jbm

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management

Description

Journal of Business and Management (JBM)is an online journal that is published three times a year. It publishes research papers that give rigorous theoretical and practical insight of business and managament. JBM aims to provide a forum for the dissemination of theory application and research in all ...