Inventory vendor-managed

Grocery retailers have to carry store inventory to satisfy retail demand over the supplier lead time to ensure high in stock levels. Thus, retailers have to forecast demand at price levels offered. As discussed in the chapter on coordination, in an uncoordinated supply chain, double marginalization results in a lower retail service level than is optimal for the supply chain as a whole. 

As an example of the impact, analysis of shipment data from Campbell s Soup to a retail chain warehouse showed that after VMI, average lead time decreased from 10.8 days to 3.6 days, and standard deviation of lead time decreased from 3.5 to 2.8 days. Thus, after VMI, on-hand inventory at the warehouse dropped from 3.4 weeks to 1.8 weeks while service levels improved. The reasons for this improvement under VMI included smaller deliveries due to increased delivery frequency and a smaller supplier lead time. 

But to make VMI economical, the manufacturer may have to pool dehveries across multiple retailers to optimize costs associated with frequent delivery. In addition, VMI may require the manufacturer to have access to detailed outbound retail shipment information in order to lower manufacturer forecast error and decrease safety stock at the retailer DC required to maintain the desired service level. 

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Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) supplier manages the inventory at the customer site to ensure delivery capability (practiced among others in the chemical and electronic industry)... 

Laboratory services, analysis, specifications, MSDS End use applications expertise Vendor-managed inventory Bundling products services Emergency response service... 

If the incident requires additional pharmaceuticals and/or medical supplies, follow-on vendor managed inventory (VMI) supplies will be shipped to arrive within 24 to 36 hours. If the agent is well defined, VMI can he tailored to provide pharmaceuticals, supplies, and/or products specific to the suspected or confirmed agent(s). In this case, the VMI could act as the first option for immediate response from the SNS Program. 

Value creation 11-21, 26-35 Value-driver trees 156, 159 Vendor managed inventory (VMI) 84 Ventro 34 Venture capital funds biotechnology 67, 77 corporate 117-118 innovation 32, 114 Venture capitalists 31, 66-67, 118 Vertical integration 37, 40-42 Vestolit 39 Victrex 98 Vinnolit 39 Virtual crackers 43 Virtual organization 122 Vopak 34, 35... 

Vehicle-routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), 2061 Vehicles, off-highway, 1470 Velocity encoders, 1903 Vendor-managed inventory (VMI), 779 Ventilation ... 

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI). The supplier controls the inventory of the consumer, deciding on delivery times and quantities. (Holmstrom 1997). 

Disney, S.M., Towill, D.R. The effect of Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) dynamics on the Bullwhip effect in supply chain. Int. J. Prod. Econ. 85, 199-215 (2003a)... 

In the second period from 1998 to 2000, the company focused on building a hybrid model. It implemented vendor-managed inventory models with customers and stocked customer hubs to drive a pull-based replenishment signal, While criticized for building too high customer inventory... 

Fiawless Execution -inbound Vendor Managed inventory Eiectronic Kanban... 

In this section, it will be performed a literature review for each one of the four categories of the Demand management - Statistical Forecast, Sales and Operations Planning (S OP), Collaborative Plaiming and Forecasting Replenishment (CPFR) and Vendor managed Inventory (VMI). This review allowed identify the DDSC characteristics for each category which was used to develop the five level maturity model. 

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De Toni AF, Zamolo E (2005) From a traditional replenishment system to vendor-managed inventory a case study from the household electrical appliances sector. Int J Prod Econ 96 63-79 Ellinger A, Ellinger A, Keller S (2005) Supervisory coaching in a logistics context Int J Phys Distrib Legist Manage 35(9) 620-636... 

Waller M, Johnson M, Davis T (1999) Vendor-managed inventory in the retail supply chain. J Bus Legist 20 183-203... 

Watson E (2005) Nestle switches to vendor managed inventory with Tesco. Food Manuf 80 20 Wu P, Hartman J, Wilson G (2005) An integrated model and solution approach for fleet sizing with heterogeneous assets. Transp Sci 39(01) 87-103 Wyatt JK (1961) Optimal fleet size. Oper Res Soc 12 186-187... 

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