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 …

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 …

Purpose In this paper, the joint replenishment problem is modeled for a two-level supply
chain consisting of a single supplier and multiple retailers that use the 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 …

Vendor managed inventory is a continuous replenishment program that is designed to
provide major cost saving benefits for both vendors and retailers. Previous research on this …

As replenishment frequencies play an important role in integrated inventory models to
reduce the total cost of supply chains, this paper extends a vendor managed inventory (VMI) …

In supply chain management, the vendor managed inventory plays a vital role in production
systems to decrease the total costs by reducing the bullwhip effect. The vendor managed …

This paper develops a single-vendor single-retailer supply chain for multi-product. The
proposed model is based on Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) approach and vendor uses …

This paper focuses on the operational issues of a Two-echelon Single-Vendor–Multiple-
Buyers Supply chain (TSVMBSC) under vendor managed inventory (VMI) mode of …

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 …