1. Introduction In recent years, supply chain technologies and processes (vendor managed inventory (VMI), continuous replenishment (CR), electronic data interchange (EDI), etc.) have become strategic imperatives for firms in increasingly competitive industries (Williams and Frolick 2001). Extensive research has examined the performance outcomes from these supply chain initiatives. For example, ...

In this paper, we study a logistics network design problem with vendor managed inventory in which the company is in charge of managing inventory for its downstream warehouses and retailers, and can choose whether to satisfy each retailer’s demand. The problem incorporates the location, transportation, pricing, and warehouse-retailer echelon inventory replenishment decisions. Traditionally, thes...

T work is motivated by the need to solve the inventory routing problem when implementing a business practice called vendor managed inventory replenishment. With vendor managed inventory replenishment, 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 replenis...

In this paper, a problem of managed inventory by the vendor in production-distribution supply chain is presented based on scenario. The main purpose presenting model maximizing producer profit three-level network consisting various strategic and tactical decisions under uncertainty. Due to nonlinearity NP-Hardness problem, meta-heuristic genetic algorithms, Whale optimization algorithm league c...

The objective of this work is to study optimal Vendor-Managed Inventory policies in distributions systems in which demand and delivery processes are characterized by a discreteevent dynamics. In Vendor-Managed Inventory policies, the supplier organizes the deliveries to the customer in order to satisfy its demand by minimizing transportation costs and holding costs of the customer. In the consi...

In this paper, a real-life routing and scheduling problem encountered is addressed. The problem, which consists in optimizing the delivery of fluids by tank trucks on a long-term horizon, is a generalization of the vehicle routing problem with vendor managed inventory replenishment. The particularity of this problem is that the vendor monitors the customers’ inventories, deciding when and how m...

Inventory-routing problems (IRPs) arise in vendor-managed inventory systems. They require jointly solving a vehicle routing problem and an inventory management problem. Whereas the solutions they yield tend to benefit the vendor and customers, solving IRPs solely based on cost considerations may lead to inconveniences to both parties. These are related to the fleet size and vehicle load, to the...