Today, global competition entails companies having an advantage in supply chain networks to pursue superior performance. This work examines the link between information technology (IT) capability with firm performance by adopting a lean production approach, vendor-managed inventory, and practices. The study has surveyed population of manufacturing company East Java, Indonesia, using questionnai...

Vendor managed inventory (VMI) agreements are a supply chain collaboration principle in which the supplier is responsible for keeping at buyer between given lower and upper limits. VMI gives lot of autonomy while making replenishments, allowing to efficiently ensure availability buyer. But different suppliers may apply approaches staying limits under VMI. Relatedly, objectives not completely al...

Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) is a supply-chain initiative where the supplier is authorized to manage inventories of agreed-upon stock-keeping units at retail locations. The benefits of VMI are well recognized by successful retail businesses such as Wal-Mart. In VMI, distortion of demand information (known as bullwhip effect) transferred from the downstream supply-chain member (e.g., retailer)...

Managed care is stuck in a vendor stage of health care industry evolution that is organized, primarily, to beat back costs through contracted discounts and utilization management. At the same time, the potential exists for an altogether different managed care that is based on a more explicit mission of lowering costs through improved quality. The foundation for this alternative approach is evid...

In recent researches, vendor managed inventory (VMI) policy is rarely considered for deteriorating items.   This study considered the supply chain partner’s collaboration via a VMI system and provided an EOQ model for a two-level supply chain (single supplier - single retailer) to examine the inventory management proceedings for VMI and non-VMI supply chains. By a new approach in modeling, the ...