For most of importers, the main operations are procurement inventory management. Recently, distribution centers are widely established. This may causes importers to change the strategy of procurement and inventory management. Besides discussing the traditional inventory problems of when and how much to procure, this paper also considered the questions of how much inventory space importers need to rent from distribution centers and the procurement of multi-items. A set of realistic data is adopted in this study to illustrate the application of real case. The results of this study are quite practical, which could provide some information for importers to make procurement policy.