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...

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 ...

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...

This study tests whether the managed care vendor shifted costs to Medicaid-reimbursed medical care after the start of the mental health carve-out for the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) population in Massachusetts. We used claims data over a 4-year period to estimate expenditures for four types of health services, two of which were paid for by the managed care vendor and two by M...

We introduce a real-life problem faced by the blood bank of the Austrian Red Cross for Eastern Austria: how to cost-effectively organize the periodic delivery of blood products to Austrian hospitals. We present various solution approaches, based on integer programming and variable neighborhood search, and empirically evaluate their performance. Moreover, we study the potential value of switchin...

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...

One of the most common and successful approaches for integrated supply chain management (SCM) is vendor-managed inventory (VMI). In VMI, a vendor takes control decisions retailers. To establish long-run relationship between retailer, it necessary to consider two impactful factors: vendors retailers' reliability, optimal selection For this purpose, redundancy allocation problem (RAP), as an effe...