The concept of vendor managed inventory (VMI) radically changes a traditional inventory management. With regard to the traditional concept, customers make a replenishment decision. However, the VMI concept is that the responsibility for replenishment process is allocated from the customer to the suppliers. As it requires both trading partner sharing more information; therefore, this contributes...

In the construction sector wastes and problems concerning logistics and supply chain management are widely found, and they are some of the important interfering factors for improving efficiency and productivity within the sector. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a well developed and adapted approach for logistics and supply chain managements in other industries, such as automotive. This thesis...

Objectives To determine the prevalence of vitreomacular interface (VMI) disorders in patients with Behçet's uveitis and assess the relationship between VMI disorders and clinical characteristics. Materials and Methods The macular optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of 160 eyes of 96 patients with Behçet's uveitis who were being followed in the Uvea-Behçet's clinic were assessed retrospe...

Angiogenesis, the formation of new vessels, has been demonstrated to be a potent and independent indicator of prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer patients. The extent of differentiation of the tumor vessels may affect access of peripheral white cells and egress or invasion of tumor cells. This has not been assessed in relation to tumor microvessel density or other variables and may be a mar...

The strategy of integration known as VMI (Vendor-Managed Inventory) allows the coordination of inventory policies between producers and buyers in supply chains. Based on a new proposed model for the implementation of VMI in a chain of two links composed of a producer and a buyer, this paper studies the evolution of individual strategies of the producer and the buyer by a formalism derived from ...

Security requirements in the cloud have led to the development of new monitoring techniques that can be broadly categorized as virtual machine introspection (VMI) techniques. VMI monitoring aims to provide high-fidelity monitoring while keeping the monitor secure by leveraging the isolation provided by virtualization. This work shows that not all hypervisor activity is hidden from the guest vir...

This paper studies a single-product supply chain, in which the supplier needs to manage its own inventory to fulfill requests from a set of heterogonous retailers. The retailers’ requests are determined by the supplier in a fashion of vendor-managed inventory (VMI). Under a VMI arrangement, the supplier agrees to pay all the order setup costs and a portion of unit holding costs for the retailer...

the primary purpose of this paper is to highlight for the research community and practitioners the various aspects of using vmi-type supply chains in today’s business environment as well as a number of directions for future studies. in this regard, fifty articles published in major international journals, beginning in 1995, which contribute to the vmi-type supply chains are reviewed via a syste...

This paper proposes an adaptive fuzzy control application to support a vendor managed inventory (VMI). The methodology applies fuzzy control to generate an adaptive smoothing constant in the forecast method, production and delivery plan to eliminate, for example, the rationing and gaming or the Houlihan effect and the order batching effect or the Burbidge effects and finally the Bullwhip effect...