In a supplier-customer relationship, Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is currently used to monitor the customer’s inventory replenishment. However the integration of VMI implies consequences on the collaboration process that links the different planning processes of each partner. This paper proposes a unified view of the VMI: beyond the short term pull system inventory replenishment, partners hav...

In this paper, we consider a two-leveled chain of supply that includes a manufacturer and a few retailers and in this chain VMI (Vendor-Managed Inventory) policy has been used. In this model, the manufacturer produces a limited amount of kind of production, and each retailer whose request is limited purchases the production with the wholesale price and sells it in retail price. In addition to t...

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 inventory is a well-known practice in supply chain collaborations, in which manufacturer manages inventory at the retailer and decides about the time and replenishment. In this paper, an integrated vendor-managed inventory model...

One of the most common and successful approaches for integrated supply chain management (SCM) is vendor-managed inventory (VMI). In VMI, a vendor takes control decisions retailers. To establish long-run relationship between retailer, it necessary to consider two impactful factors: vendors retailers' reliability, optimal selection For this purpose, redundancy allocation problem (RAP), as an effe...

This study develops an improved inventory model to help the enterprises to advance their profit increasing and cost reduction in a single vendor single-buyer environment with general demand curve, adjustable production rate, and imperfect reworking process under permissible delay in payments. For advancing practical use in a real world, we are concerned with the following strategy determining, ...

This work is motivated by the need to solve the inventory routing problem when implementing a business practice called vendor managed inventory replenishment (VMI). With VMI, vendors monitor their customers’ inventories, and decide when and how much inventory should be replenished at each customer. The inventory routing problem attempts to coordinate inventory replenishment and transportation i...

For the best implementation of (vendor-managed inventory) VMI, a vendor must choose optimal combination suppliers that can better meet criteria environmental problems. In controls some retailers' inventory decisions. This study aims to select in green VMI and assign orders them. this study, selects by accounting for various factors, including quality delivery reliability, reduction return perce...