This paper develops a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) model for a two-level supply chain comprised of one vendor and several non-competing retailers in which both the raw material and the finished product have different deterioration rates. It is assumed that the market demand for the finished product is deterministic and price sensitive. The proposed inventory model optimizes the retail price, ...

Campbell Soup’s Continuous Replenishment (CR) program is a novel innovation designed to improve the e¢ciency of inventory management throughout the supply chain. With CR: (1) retailers pay a constant wholesale price but continue to participate in consumer promotions; (2) retailers transmit to the supplier daily inventory information, via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI); and (3) the supplier a...

This paper presents the findings of a study with a Unilever bottle-filling plant and its key bottle supplier, ALPLA. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the complexity associated with before and after integration. The nature of the complexity alters as the supplier-customer relationship changes, in this case from pre-integration to post-integration system. The areas in which complexity ...

UNLABELLED The advent of managed care, reduction of costs, and advances in medical technology place increasing demands on anesthesiologists. Preoperative anxiety may go unnoticed in an environment that stresses increased productivity. The present study compares different methods for measuring preoperative anxiety, identifies certain patient characteristics that predispose to high anxiety, and d...

Corrigendum Corrigendum to ‘‘An integrated approach for logistic and vendor managed inventory in supply chain” [Expert Systems with Applications 37 (1) (2010) 39–44] V. Arora , F.T.S. Chan *, M.K. Tiwari a Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univer...

I n this paper we consider a cooperative, two-level supply chain consisting of a retailer and a supplier. As in many practical settings, the supply chain members progressively observe market signals that enable them to explain future demand. The demand itself evolves according to an auto-regressive time series. We examine three types of supply chain configurations. In the first setting, the ret...

Vendor managed inventory replenishment is a business practice in which vendors monitor their customers’ inventories, and decide when and how much inventory should be replenished. The inventory routing problem addresses the coordination of inventory management and transportation. The ability to solve the inventory routing problem contributes to the realization of the potential savings in invento...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to further elucidate proximal and distal demographic and social predictors of Internet Health Information Seeking Behavior (IHISB) among a cohort of HIV+ individuals through an ecological framework. METHODS The Community Health Advisory & Information Network (CHAIN) project is an ongoing prospective study of a representative sample of persons living with...

In many contexts, logistics is used to enable competitive advantages and cost savings. For some companies, logistics itself is its core competency (i.e. logistics providers). In this context, vendor-managed inventory (VMI) systems are one of the most up-to-date strategies allowing companies to reach a superior performance. Under a VMI strategy, the replenishment and distribution making process ...

Forest and harvested wood products (HWP) carbon (C) stocks between 2001 and 2100 for Ontario’s managed forests were projected using FORCARB-ON, an adaptation of the U.S. national forest C budget model known as FORCARB2. A fire disturbance module was introduced to FORCARB-ON to simulate the effects of wildfire on C, and some of themodel’s C pools were re-parameterized using data fromCanadian for...