Inventory Management in Complex Supply Chain—A System Dynamics Model

摘要

Most traditional researches on inventory management mainly focused on inventory management of individual enterprises, especially on the algorithm analysis. This paper analyze the characteristics of the supply chain inventory management system, and then build three system dynamics models: the supplier supply chain inventory management system, the manufacturer supply chain inventory management system and the distributor supply chain inventory management system. We analyze the interaction mechanism of the factors and variables in the models, and get the conditions which lead to the stability of the systems.