| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 資訊管理學系研究所 === 92 === The telecommunications industry has been in the process of merging. However, the decline of Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) shows the saturation of mobile phone market. At the same time, the Directorate General of Telecommunications (DGT) has announced the implementation of number portability will be in January 2005. Therefore, the resort to sell handsets in high discounts is unavoidable to retain the existing customers and get the new subscribers. Because the high cost, short product lifecycle, diversity of usage, uncertainty of leading time in procurement and indefinite of consumers’ demands, the management of handset inventory has been perplexed the telecommunication industry.
This research tries to create an inventory model to provide the mobile phone companies a direction for deciding what the right order quantity is and when the re-order point is. It also can improve the satisfaction of customers and enforce the partnership with vendors. The vendor managed inventory (VMI) which is different from traditional inventory management is taken into consideration, and the target is the high-end function handset. The model will employ the data of average demand in the past few months and the decline curve of market price as the base. The relation of handsets has been created by using the characteristics of classified product. The methodology of time series analysis is used for this research.
The construct of this handset inventory model is from the viewpoint of telecommunication industry.
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