Vendor Managed inventory, from concept to processes, for an unified view

Guillaume Marquès (1) , Jacques Lamothe (1) , Caroline Thierry (2, 3) , Didier Gourc (1)

1 CGI - Centre Génie Industriel
2 IRIT-ADRIA - Argumentation, Décision, Raisonnement, Incertitude et Apprentissage
3 UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

In a supplier-customer relationship, Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is currently used to monitor the customer's inventory replenishment. However the integration of VMI implies consequences on the collaboration process that links the different planning processes of each partner. This paper proposes a unified view of the VMI: beyond the short term pull system inventory replenishment, partners have to share their vision of the demand, their requirements and their constraints to fix middle/long term common objectives for each article concerned by VMI. There are many ways to specify these links between VMI and partner's planning processes.

Mots clés: vendor managed inventory; supply chain management; collaboration; simulation

Domaines: Autre

Guillaume Marquès, Jacques Lamothe, Caroline Thierry, Didier Gourc. Vendor Managed inventory, from concept to processes, for an unified view. ILS 2008 - 2nd International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics, and Supply chain, May 2008, Bordeaux, United States. p.536-546. ⟨hal-00444174⟩