How to Maintain Minimum Stock Levels?
Should we maintain minimum stock levels for both fast moving and slow moving stock?
What differences exist in maintaining the levels of each type of stock?...
Economic Order Quantity Formula
EOQ is the order quantity that minimizes total inventory holding costs and ordering costs. It is used in production scheduling. The formula used to determine this order quantity is also known as Bara...
VMI Between Up / Down Stream Manufacturers
What about establishing Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) between a manufacturer and its manufacturer (down stream manufacturer)??...
The Required Trust in Vendor Managed Inventory
We are a B2B food company that export ingredients in bulk around the world. We compete with local industries and I would like to know if it is possible to use VMI as a competitive advantage in this bu...
Other SC Centralization Concepts Compare VMI also with Factory Gate Pricing and Third Party Logistics. FGP and 3PL are also concepts in which the respons...
Supply Chain Management, Purchasing, Alliances, Partnerships, Supply Chain Relations Roloff, Alnder and Nayier (2015) did research on the conditions for (un)successful buyer-supplier relationships and fo...
PROs, CONs and Conditions of VMI This study by Susan Cohen Kulp investigates the conditions under which Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) systems lead to im...
Vendor Managed Inventory, Logistics In this paper Helena Ramalhinho Dias Lourenco and Rita Ribeirto develop two models for an inventory system in which the ...