While many supply chains use vendor-managed inventory (VMI) to handle deteriorating
products, they employ special facilities (eg, cold warehouses), which produce significant …

Among all existing inventory replenishment models, this research was dedicated to the Joint
Replenishment Problem (JRP), which consists in the replenishment of multiple items …

In the increasingly competitive market, supply chain decision-makers are making efforts to
improve operational efficiency and reduce costs by joint replenishment approach …

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

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

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 …

We study the efficiency of a multi-stage supply chain controlled by a single decision-maker
with the goal of maximizing the total profit per time unit for a single product by coordinating …

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is increasingly being adopted as a mean of enhancing the
efficiency of supply chain (SC) operations. In this paper, we consider a scenario where a …

An integrated multi-stage supply chain with time-varying demand over a finite planning
horizon is considered in this paper. The objective is to devise the optimal production …