VMI - Vendor Managed Inventory

VMI - Vendor Managed Inventory

The concept

VMI supplier take over the responsibility of supply chain management and make people in manufacturer released from planning, receiving, keeping and operating the physical material, and then reach 0 inventory and no risk of material shortage.

 

 

A quick comparison between Traditional Supplier Chain and Nefab VMI Solutions

 

Traditional Supplier Chain

          Parts are stocked/owned by manufacturer--- Inventory, obsolete risks, space

          A team of sourcing/purchasing/receiving/warehousing -- Manpower

          Within one project, if it contains 10 suppliers, therefore at least 10 forecasts, 10 POs and 10 deliveries management is unavoidable -- Administration work

          If there’s the quality issue, the outer packaging supplier will blame inner packaging supplier, inner packaging will criticize others too--Nobody takes responsibility

 

 

Nefab VMI Solutions

          Parts are stocked/owned by system supplier--Almost 0 inventory for manufacturer

                                                                                     Save warehouse space

                                                                                       Obsolete risk within the liability agreement

            One system supplier instead of 10 suppliers need to be daily contacted -- Save manpower

                                                                                                                                  Save administration work

           If quality issue happened, system supplier has full responsibility--No arguments