A study on Coordination of Quantity-Based Dispatch and Inventory under VMI

摘要：

VMI is a new pattern of management in which the supplier and other upstream enterprises manage and control the retailers and other downstream enterprises in a unified way. In this paper we present an integrated optimized model for quantity-based dispatch and inventory issue under VMI. Through optimized computation, we obtain the optimal dispatch frequency,the size of a dispatching, and the expected long-run average cost. And it shows: ifthe customer waiting cost is less than the inventory holding cost, the optimal dispatch frequency is equal to its replenishment frequency; if the customer waiting cost is more than the inventory holding cost, the supplier could save cost through coordinating the inventory and shipment process.

关键词： Vendor managed inventory Dispatch Inventory Quantity-based

作者: Yang Peng Liu Pengfei Zhang Zhengyu

作者单位: Hunan Financial and Economic College,P.R.China,410205 School of Management, Changsha University of Science & Technology, P.R.China, 410076

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第六届管理学国际会议(Proceedings of ICM2007 the 6th International on Management)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 2037-2042

在线出版日期: 2007-08-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）