Models for Supply Chains in E-Business
Management Science
Model and algorithm of an inventory problem with the consideration of transportation cost
Computers and Industrial Engineering - Special issue: Selected papers from the 27th international conference on computers & industrial engineering
A Two-Echelon Inventory Optimization Model with Demand Time Window Considerations
Journal of Global Optimization
Journal of Global Optimization
Minimizing the Total Cost in an Integrated Vendor--Managed Inventory System
Journal of Heuristics
Supply chain integration in vendor-managed inventory
Decision Support Systems
Coordinated Replenishment Strategies in Inventory/Distribution Systems
Management Science
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Inbound Logistic Planning: Minimizing Transportation and Inventory Cost
Transportation Science
Analyzing information-enabled stockout management under vendor-managed inventory
Information Technology and Management
Optimization of vendor-managed inventory systems in a rolling horizon framework
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Case-based myopic reinforcement learning for satisfying target service level in supply chain
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A decision support system for detecting products missing from the shelf based on heuristic rules
Decision Support Systems
Analyzing the evolutionary stability of the vendor-managed inventory supply chains
Computers and Industrial Engineering
The value of postponing online fulfillment decisions in multi-channel retail/e-tail organizations
Computers and Operations Research
Inventory Replenishment and Inbound Shipment Scheduling Under a Minimum Replenishment Policy
Transportation Science
Journal of Global Optimization
An integrated approach for logistic and vendor managed inventory in supply chain
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Economic Lot-Sizing for Integrated Production and Transportation
Operations Research
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Study on the inventory control of deteriorating items under VMI model based on bi-level programming
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Addressing lot sizing and warehousing scheduling problem in manufacturing environment
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A supply chain performance analysis of a pull inspired supply strategy faced to demand uncertainties
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
A quantity-time-based dispatching policy for a VMI system
ICCSA'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part IV
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
Robust Inventory Routing Under Demand Uncertainty
Transportation Science
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Simulating backlog and load building processes in a two-echelon inventory system
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Stochastic models for the coordinated production and shipment problem in a supply chain
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Supply Hub in Industrial Park (SHIP): The value of freight consolidation
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Joint shipment consolidation and inventory decisions in a two-stage distribution system
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A numerical solution for a two-stage production and inventory system with random demand arrivals
Computers and Operations Research
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Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) is a supply-chain initiative where the supplier is authorized to manage inventories of agreed-upon stock-keeping units at retail locations. The benefits of VMI are well recognized by successful retail businesses such as Wal-Mart. In VMI, distortion of demand information (known as bullwhip effect) transferred from the downstream supply-chain member (e.g., retailer) to the upstream member (e.g., supplier) is minimized, stockout situations are less frequent, and inventory-carrying costs are reduced. Furthermore, a VMI supplier has the liberty of controlling the downstream resupply decisions rather than filling orders as they are placed. Thus, the approach offers a framework for synchronizing inventory and transportation decisions.In this paper, we present an analytical model for coordinating inventory and transportation decisions in VMI systems. Although the coordination of inventory and transportation has been addressed in the literature, our particular problem has not been explored previously. Specifically, we consider a vendor realizing a sequence of random demands from a group of retailers located in a given geographical region. Ideally, these demands should be shipped immediately. However, the vendor has the autonomy of holding small orders until anagreeable dispatch time with the expectation that an economical consolidated dispatch quantity accumulates. As a result, the actual inventory requirements at the vendor are partly dictated by the parameters of the shipment-release policy in use. We compute the optimum replenishment quantity and dispatch frequency simultaneously. We develop a renewaltheoretic model for the case of Poisson demands, and present analytical results.