Inventory Management: It is a management of required
inventory level in a company. To maintain enough stock of raw material and
finished goods in a company helps to reduce the chances of shortage of stocks
or excess stock in a company. If there is a shortage of stock, then the company
is not able to satisfy its customer needs which leads decreases the sales
volume and loses its customers because the customers will go some other places
to fulfil their needs. If there is an excess stock then it leads wastage of
company’s funds because that stock will not be converted into cash.
Types of inventory:
·
Raw
material: It is an unprocessed item which is going for processing and converted
into finished goods.
·
Work-in-progress:
The raw material is under processed stage that is known as work in progress.
·
Finished
goods: The goods are available or ready for sale to customers to fulfil their
needs.
Company also maintain some stock of spare parts like nuts,
bolts. And it also maintains the stock of packaging items or some other items
which help to prepare the finished goods.
Importance of inventory management:
·
It
protects the company from the stage of losing its customers due to lack of
stocks.
·
It
helps to maintain the sales volume of a product.
·
It
reduces the time gap between ordering the goods and delivering to customers.
·
It
helps to maintain the reputation of the company.
·
It
reduces the wastage of funds by holding extra stock in a warehouse which is not
going to convert into cash.
·
It
helps to maintain continuous flow of goods for every stage, when raw material
is converted into finished goods.
Types of Inventory Cost:
·
Ordering cost: The cost associated with the ordering
of a stock from supplier. If lesser the quantity ordered higher the ordering
cost and higher the quantity ordered lesser the ordering cost.
·
Carrying cost: This cost is associated with the time of holding of a stock in an
inventory till it converted into sales. Increases the ordering quantity
increases the carrying cost or decreases the ordering quantity decreases the
carrying cost.
·
Other Cost: It is directly or indirectly related
to stock like insurance cost; to protect the stock from theft, fire etc during
holding period of stock in warehouse. Warehouse
cost for maintaining the stock in warehouse etc.
Below the diagram shows how the carrying cost and ordering cost are
related to each other:
The diagram shows the inverse
relationship between ordering cost and carrying cost.
Inventory Management System: It is a system based management of
inventory level of a company. With the help of computer software company
manages all its inventories activities like ordering the stock, maintain the
warehouse record, checking the inventory level time to time, and update every
record related to stock when sales or purchases happened and it is also used
for billing purpose etc. The software used for inventory management is:
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning): This software is use by manufacturers
for maintaining multi warehousing easily. It also helps control the inventory
level.
Now there is lots of software are available for inventory management.
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