Stock control is an important link of the business management. The object of stock control is how to effectively reduce inventory costs and ensure the supply. Whether achieve this goal also on the inventory control method choice. With the change of socio-economic environment and the development of science and technology, inventory control methods in the continuing innovation and development. Traditional inventory control methods as ABC, economic order quantity (EOQ) act, the modern inventory control methods as vendors control inventory (VMI), the Jointly Managed Inventory (JMI) and Multi-Control Inventory Optimization. In this paper, the traditional ABC and EOQ compared with modern VMI、JMI…… act ,and it will be convenient for enterprises to use the appropriate method of inventory control.
KEYWORDS: stock control, traditional method, modern method