Abstract

Zero inventory management is the 1970s, Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan, the first widely used in an advanced management techniques. It can not only enhance their own product quality concerns, improve product quality and customer service satisfaction, better management and urge enterprises to reduce costs, maximize our enterprise value.

Inventory that affect the national economy and development of important factors. Practice shows that inventory is reasonable, will promote the efficient functioning of the economy, on the contrary, stocks irrational, such as fragmentation of inventory, inventory, backlog and other materials will block the rapid economic development

Zero inventory is the time of production, the idea is new efficiencies, is a centralized management thinking, namely: do everything possible to reduce the production process through all the waste, reduce consumption and conserve resources to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Management thinking in this concept and run under the guidance of the production system, lower inventory levels, minimize waste, the smallest footprint, did not interrupt the production process, production logistics to be optimized. Inventory management in today's era of zero inventory is the ideal state is the embodiment of the integrated management capabilities.

The paper first discusses the theory of inventory and zero inventory, inventory management and analysis of the development in foreign countries. Finally, ways and means to achieve zero inventory, made a number of specific implementations. Any management tools and technologies are a cost and price, as a wise business, investment must be less than output, as companies always have a profit to survive. Therefore, enterprises in the implementation of inventory management, you should think positively and improved, not blindly practice. To achieve zero inventory needs in the procurement, production, logistics, sales and other business activities in a chain, to achieve zero inventory in the process of surviving in a certain amount of obstacles, zero inventory risks to the enterprise can not be ignored, the feasibility of more worthy of study from both positive and negative

key words： zero inventory; role; management; Realization