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STRATEGIC PLANNING OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT FOR INVENTORY OPTIMISATION IN SUPPLY CHAINS

The growing needs for optimization in the supply chains are caused by inadequate, slow freight flow and the impossibility of real-time tracking of the flow of goods. At the same time, concurrent requirements for business analysis and logistic planning have brought to the need of strategic approach in planning the introduction of information technology support for inventory optimization in the supply chains. As a dynamic phenomenon, the logistic chain includes several interrelated organizations and activities that need to insure a smooth flow of materials and information from the original supplier to the end user. On the other hand, the inventories represent a “backup” which eliminate disturbances that may occur in the supply chain. Regarding the complexity of supply chains and the related inventory optimisation issue, advanced information technology solutions need to be introduced into the system in order to coordinate the activities and the information flow in the supply chain. The trends in the production with the increase in the variation of the products and their restoration cycles result in the tendency of increasing the inventories in the supply chain. The implementation of information technology support allows partial “replacement” of the inventories in the supply chain by information, thus providing free space for better efficiency of the freight and information flow through the supply chain. All this leads to the realization of assumptions to increase the competitiveness of the business subjects on the globalizing market which would then be more competent in reacting to the market requirements and more competitive in relation to the end users, consumers of goods and services.

supply chains; inventory optimization; technology support

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