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...

Purpose: To assess the cross-cultural clinical utility of the Visual Motor Integration (VMI) standardized U.S. norms for typically developing Palestinian, Israeli, and American kindergarten children. The cross-cultural comparisons tested the extent to which the VMI standardized U.S. norms for all three tests (a) are appropriate for use with the aforementioned groups without the need for cross-c...

Over the last few years there has been immense progress in developing powerful security tools based on Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI). VMI offers unique capabilities which can be used to check and enforce security policies in the presence of a potentially compromised guest. With the introduction of new hardware virtualization extensions, VMI can be further enhanced to provide lightweight, ...

The 6th annual IEEE 3DUI contest focuses on Virtual Music Instruments (VMIs), and on 3D user interfaces for playing them. The Contest is part of the IEEE 2015 3DUI Symposium held in Arles, France. The contest is open to anyone interested in 3D User Interfaces (3DUIs), from researchers to students, enthusiasts, and professionals. The purpose of the contest is to stimulate innovative and creative...

This paper presents the economic production quantity (EPQ) models for the imperfect quality items produced with/without the presence of shortage condition. The models are presented in a two-level supply chain composed of a single manufacturer and a single buyer to investigate the performance of vendormanaged inventory (VMI) policy. The total costs are minimized to obtain the optimal production ...

This paper is concerned with the implementation of VMI within a grocery supply chain. We use the Time Benefit analysis tool to identify the particular products most suitable for VMI control from within the suppliers product range. Practical issues concerning the production and distribution process are highlighted. A production and inventory control system is selected and refined and realised vi...

Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) is a widely used collaborative inventory management policy in which manufacturers manages the inventory of retailers and takes responsibility for making decisions related to the timing and extent of inventory replenishment. VMI partnerships help organizations to reduce demand variability, inventory holding and distribution costs. This study provides empirical evid...

todays, improving the competitiveness of companies and rapidly responding to diverse customers’ demands requires efficient management of the supply chain. integration is one of the effective indices in a supply chain, and vendor managed inventory (vmi) is one of the innovative approaches in this field. in this paper, an integrated model based on a vmi system for deteriorating and ameliorating i...