The Study of The Switch Point Evaluation of Traditional Inventory Management Policy and The Vendor Managed Inventory Management Policy Base on Vendors’ View

• Main Authors: Chun-Hsien Chiu, 邱俊憲
• Other Authors: Shaw Ping Lan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58343607201282388793

碩士 === 國防管理學院 === 資源管理研究所 === 95 === VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) is the key points of Nowadays inventory management policies that multitudinous experts are discussing. However, not all vendors can afford to pay the huge setup cost of Vendor Managed Inventory. Because of the vendors and retailers are unwilling to pay the extra costs, they would rather take the traditional inventory management policy for save money. So, the shortage cost will hard to reduce. When tracing the maximum of benefit in supply chain, this research investigates that the best switch point evaluation that according to the increasing rate of the profit. The research use the two-stage inventory model with vendors and retailers in supply chain to developed the formula for each vendor’s profit. The model basis for two situations, holding retailer’s profit and profit increase from quantity discount. A research found the better switch point evaluation formula of traditional inventory management policy with the consignment inventory management policy. For setup cost of VMI can be retrieved by the increasing rate of the profit in few phases. Further the result of research integrating with benefit of VMI to infer advantage of military lubricant supply.