Abstract A Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) partnership places the responsibility on the
vendor (rather than on buyers) to schedule purchase orders for inventory replenishment in …

This paper discusses how a vendor and multiple retailers interact in a vendor managed
inventory (VMI) system under stochastic demand. It is assumed that the vendor replenishes …

Vendor managed inventory (VMI) is a well-established supply chain practice where the
supplier is responsible for managing inventory at the retail point. In particular, the supplier …

Simultaneous reductions in inventory of raw materials, work-in-process, and finished items
have recently become a major focus in supply chain management. Vendor-managed …

Vendor managed inventory is an integrated approach for retailer–vendor coordination,
according to which the vendor decides on the appropriate inventory levels within bounds …

In this study, a vendor-managed inventory model is developed for a single-vendor multiple-
retailer single-warehouse (SV-MR-SV) supply chain problem based on the economic order …

In many supply networks, the retailers are reluctant to share information about demand and
inventory level to the vendor. This might lead to many difficulties for the vendor in …

In this paper we consider a complex production-distribution system, where a facility
produces (or orders from an external supplier) several items which are distributed to a set of …

We consider a supply chain where a vendor manages its multiple retailers' stocks under a
vendor managed inventory (VMI) contract that specifies upper stock limits at the retailers' …

This paper considers a two-echelon supply chain model with a single vendor and two
buyers in which the vendor supplies the same item to both buyers at a finite production rate …