ANALYZING INVENTORY MANAGEMENT FOR SOFTLINE DIVISION AT HYPERMART BIP

• Main Author: Ramadhan Joedo (NIM:190 04 071), Gading
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/6138
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Abstract: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Entering the globalization and economical condition recent years in big cities, there so many retailer company grown fast. Retailer has a large of demand from every community in the world, because the role is strategic, based from the scope from the company include the producer, distributor, and consumer. Every retail company has their policies on how to give their best for the company. One of the key of success of a retail company is to manage the inventory so it could be spend as efficient and optimum as possible. The policy must be used in a correct way, so it wont gave disadvantages to the company, since the policy about inventory will give a big influence to every business function such as general operation, marketing, and financial. Hypermart is a retail company that was involved in the sale of products satisfying the requirement for the daily life, in part; food, clothes, the household furniture, etc. Hypermart was one of the examples best practices for the other company in Indonesia. In doing the business activity, definitely the Hypermart management carried out a planning, execution, and controlled. Here the writer meant to discuss the existing management system in Softline division which carried out the business in apparel product, since the supplier in Hypermart BIP reach about 100 suppliers; as a result they have to create an excellent management. Base from the root cause analysis we recommend Hypermart BIP to implement new system called automatic replenishment. Automatic replenishment is the preparation of orders by computer that integrates information about product movement (as recorded by point of sale equipment); outside factors that effect demand (such as seasonal changes), actual inventory levels, product receipts, and acceptable safety stock levels, inventory data integrity is maintained by cycle counting. Automatic replenishment is useful for ordering process to reducing errors caused by human errors, and process error. <br />