| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 管理科學學系企業經營碩士在職專班 === 102 === Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a method of operational mode for inventory management in the environment of supply chain management. In essence, it is a concept for integrating unilateral supply chain inventory management issues into a single inventory management problem. Based on customers’ actual or forecasted demands and inventory levels inventory replenishment solutions can be obtained through VMI. Suppliers can learn sales information from customers’ demands messages and perform more effective plans for rapid responses to market changes and customer needs. In recent years, many companies have been integrating the resources of whole supply chain pipelines to form VMI supply chain strategic alliances between enterprises in order to reduce inventory costs and risks. To face today''s low-profit era in electronic manufacturing industry, companies hope to cooperate with its partners to implement VMI to reduce inventory costs, avoid unnecessary stockpiles and material shortages to increase supply flexibility and maintain companys’ competitive advantage.
This study is to investigate why Taiwan''s IT industries import VMI management mechanisms? What related considerations are considered? What are the difficulties and solutions in the process of initiating and implementing VMI mechanism? And finally, what benefits can be brought up to enterprise for using VMI?
By the case study, we have shown that VMI indeed contents many significant properties that can increase operating benefits, reduce inventory costs and effectively improve company’s inventory management system.
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