A Case Study For Improving Sales Forecast & Inventory Management

• Main Authors: Shaochung Hsu, 徐紹中
• Other Authors: David M.C. Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46941629545737604308

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 高階主管管理學程碩士班 === 89 === This thesis presents a case study based on a semiconductor company in improving its Sales forecast and inventory management. It was developed in conjunction with an effort in implementing a corporate integration system (CIS). The work took consideration of practical product and production issues such as multiple product life cycles, different production turn around time (TAT), sales/production solutioning process, and inventory disposition strategy. Forecast variation due to market fluctuation was always an uncertain factor in production control and production planning process. Through the implementation of information technology, it is now possible to achieve real time feedback and make proper response with proper human intervention. Together with continuous improvement mechanism implementation, it provided better monitoring information for top management to oversee its supply chain’s overall performance through improved forecast accuracy, reduced finish goods (FG) inventory, and reduced wafer in process (WIP).