Push and pull production systems: issues and comparisons
Operations Research
Mersenne twister: a 623-dimensionally equidistributed uniform pseudo-random number generator
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) - Special issue on uniform random number generation
Effectiveness of vendor-managed inventory in the electronics industry: determinants and outcomes
Information and Management
Supply chain integration in vendor-managed inventory
Decision Support Systems
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
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Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is currently seen as a short-term replenishment pull system. Moreover, VMI is usually synonymous with a distribution context and stable demand. However, industrial partners are faced with uncertainty in the context of a B to B relationship. Thus, an adaptation of the actors' planning processes is needed and the question is posed of the interest of VMI in a context of uncertain demand. The purpose of this paper is firstly to analyze the link between VMI and pull logic. Secondly, we explore the extension of VMI notions to the relationship between industrial partners and we confront VMI with uncertain demand in terms of trend, vision of the trend and variability in order to verify the usual stable demand assumption. We also present an integration of VMI into a simulation tool called LogiRisk that we have developed for the evaluation of risks of in supply chain collaboration policies, and a small case study.