In the early 1990s，China started to develop chain operation；the domestic supermarket began a large-scale expansion. At the same time，they also faced with many problems like that new products introduced slowly，that the goods’backlog is serious and that homogeneous goods is full of the shelves and so on. Since 1997， the category management has come into our country，more and more domestic supermarket began to implement category management，in order to reduce inventory，reduce shortage，to improve sales and achieve the purpose of customer satisfaction ultimately. However，they always stay in the primary stage-shelf space management stage，and there are many problems needed to be resolved. it will put forward the corresponding solutions accordint to the three problems faced by shelf space management，in this article.