Solutions to Enterprise Problems in Supermarket Management

At present, there are many problems in inventory management in many supermarkets, which seriously affect the rationalization of inventory management and the improvement of supermarket profitability, and must be paid enough attention to: 1. The feedback of commodity sales related information is not timely and the forecast is inaccurate, which leads to unreasonable inventory structure and cycle, resulting in a large number of redundant logistics costs for enterprises. 2. Inventory management is arbitrary, and most supermarkets have low technical level of inventory management, low quality of personnel, and lack of unified work standards and job responsibilities. At present, in order to reduce the operating cost, many supermarkets rent obsolete warehouses with poor facilities and equipment, and many operations are completed manually by personnel, which will inevitably lead to an increase in operating costs, an increase in the rate of commodity loss, a strong arbitrariness in warehouse management, and no division and classification management, which will increase the difficulty of inventory and picking, increase additional operating expenses and reduce work efficiency. 3. The understanding of inventory management is not in place. Many supermarket people think that the warehouse is just a place for storage, just putting the redundant goods together, paying attention to the sales and procurement of goods and ignoring the influence of commodity inventory on the overall operating effect. Ignoring and wasting the full use of resources in the reservoir area, for example, the distribution, processing, packaging and repackaging activities of many commodities are not carried out in the open space of the reservoir area, but in stores, which greatly increases the operating costs. Strengthen the inventory management of supermarkets. It is a requirement of systematic engineering to strengthen supermarket inventory management and solve many problems at the same time. I think we should pay attention to the following aspects at present: 1. Reasonable control of order information. Inventory management in supermarkets has always been a difficult problem, and both supermarkets and suppliers have spent a lot of manpower and material resources. I can only talk about my experience here. We must first understand the order status of the supermarket, and we must straighten out the orders of the supermarket, that is, we must first make clear the sales volume of the supermarket and reasonably predict and control the inventory through the sales volume. The sales situation of stores is ever-changing. Therefore, when placing an order, you need to consider the special price of the goods, the off-season of sales, whether there is a price adjustment and other factors. In addition, the supplier's performance of the order is also our concern. If the supplier can't fulfill the order in time and completely, it will inevitably lead to the shortage of stores and ultimately affect the company's sales. Therefore, the order department also needs to effectively control suppliers and establish a good cooperative relationship with them to promote suppliers to fulfill orders. 2. The classified management of inventory goods should implement the principle of "decentralized custody of goods with fast turnover and centralized custody of goods with slow turnover", so as to compress the inventory in circulation, effectively use the storage area and simplify inventory management. In inventory control, the goods in the distribution center should be divided into three categories: A, B and C according to the imbalance between sales volume and variety quantity. Usually in the distribution center, the sales of Class A goods account for about 70%-75% of the total sales, and the number of varieties accounts for about 5%-10% of the total varieties; Sales of Class B goods account for10%-20%; Sales of Class C goods account for about 5%-10%; The number of varieties accounts for about 5%- 10%. For class A goods, we should focus on careful management and maintenance to ensure their quality, especially to check their inventory frequently; For class C commodities, the daily management work should be reduced as much as possible to reduce the management cost, but the order quantity and inventory can be appropriately increased; In principle, the inventory management of Class B goods is between A and C ... This management method can highlight the key points, give consideration to the general, reduce management costs and inventory, eliminate inventory backlog and shortage, and improve economic benefits and service level. 3. Scientific and timely inventory should strengthen the inventory work and grasp the real inventory information in time. Inventory and inventory management can be said to be twins. Supermarket inventory management mainly includes warehouse management and inventory operation. Warehouse management refers to the management of commodity storage space. Inventory refers to the inventory and verification of goods in stock. At present, due to the limited distribution capacity of goods in China, it is difficult for stores to operate without warehouses. Supermarket stores either set up internal warehouses or heighten shelves, and use the upper floor as storage space to maintain a certain commodity reserve and ensure the normal sales of the stores. Through the inventory operation, the real inventory, expense rate, gross profit rate, loss rate and other business indicators of the store in chaoshi 168.com can be calculated in time, which is convenient for the store's business decision-making and performance evaluation. Therefore, warehouse management and inventory operation are complementary. Scientific, reasonable, safe and hygienic warehouse management can not only facilitate inventory operation, but also reduce inventory costs and losses, timely and accurately count and scientifically control inventory, and deal with problems in time. Strengthen supermarket inventory management. Advantages of strengthening supermarket inventory management First of all, improving the level of supermarket inventory management is conducive to the capital turnover of enterprises, and even in some special cases, the investment required for inventory can be zero. This can make business activities more flexible, and the funds needed to establish standing stock of goods can be converted into other projects, so that business activities can develop to a higher stage of renewal. Secondly, improving the level of supermarket inventory management is conducive to improving customer satisfaction. Through efficient inventory management, we can ensure that supermarkets provide customers with the most needed goods at the lowest price, complete the variety of important goods, reduce the probability of shortage, and thus maintain high customer satisfaction. Finally, the research on supermarket inventory management is also conducive to improving the overall management level of supermarket enterprises, and improving the overall quality of supermarkets through inventory management.