Review of Literatures on Inventory Management for Slow-moving Spare Parts

The paper first introduces the knowledge related to the inventory and category of spare parts and then reviews the literatures on the demand forecasting for the slow-moving spare parts as well as their inventory models and algorithms.As for the demand forecasting,the paper mainly analyzes several commonly used forecasting methods and as for the models and algorithms,the paper studies the developmental course of the inventory management modes,more specifically from the single-echelon to the multi-echelon and then to the joint and collaborative inventory model.Finally it points out the deficiency of these studies as well as several directions worthy of more attention in this research field