Despite the importance of transport within the supply chain, it has traditionally been treated as a separate function within businesses. More recently there has been increased recognition that transport needs to be integrated into the supply chain. This chapter considers vendor managed inventory, and demonstrates how it can be used to improve both transport and supply chain performance. With VM...

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...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a multi-item economic order quantity (EOQ) model with shortage for a single-buyer single-supplier supply chain under green vendor managed inventory (VMI) policy. This model explicitly includes the VMI contractual agreement between the vendor and the buyer such as warehouse capacity and delivery constraints, bounds for each order, and limits on the number ...

The use of VMI at Wal-Mart on a large scale has attracted a great deal of attention in the industrial world. In a VMI program, the supplier assumes control of the inventory management for one or more retailers (Fry, 2002). The supplier monitors the inventory level at the retailers and makes the decisions related to the quantities of replenishment and the timing of shipments to the retailers. It...

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...

Improvement in supply chain performance is one of the major issues in the current world. Lack of coordination in the supply chain is the main drawback of supply chain that many researchers have proposed different methodologies to overcome it. VMI (Vendor-managed inventory) is one of these methodologies that implementing it has some obstacles. This paper proposes new model that is agent-managed ...