This paper proposes a Vendor Managed Inventory model for a three-layer supply chain
comprised of multiple suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers. During the production and …

One of the most common and successful approaches for the integrated supply chain
management (SCM) is the vendor-managed inventory (VMI). In VMI, a vendor takes control …

Vendor managed inventory (VMI) agreements are a supply chain collaboration principle in
which the supplier is responsible for keeping the inventory at the buyer between given lower …

This paper considers the integration between quality control and production inventory
control in supply chain management. Specifically, we study the effect of inspection errors on …

In a vendor-managed inventory (VMI) system, a manufacturing vendor manages their retailer
inventories. Studies on VMI-type supply chains mostly have not considered competition …

Currently, inventory and logistics performance play a significant role for the efficiency
augmentation and competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. The objective of this …

Background: Despite the fact that some results can be found for the logistics simulation in
the literature, there is a lack of an experiment based on inner company data. Therefore, the …

This paper presents a vendor-managed inventory model for a three-layer supply chain
comprised of suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers. This model considers an imperfect …

Problem definition: We bound the value of collaboration in a decentralized multisupplier
multiretailer setting, where several suppliers ship to several retailers through a shared …

This paper introduces a two-echelon supply chain that markets two substitutable brands of a
product with uncertain demand. The supply chain employs the vendor-managed inventory …