Factors Affecting the Adoption of Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) System in Supply Chain

• Main Authors: Sheng-yao Ma, 馬笙耀
• Other Authors: Wen-Hsin Fang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38141260126378313390

碩士 === 義守大學 === 管理研究所碩士班 === 96 === Along with the globalization, quick response (QR) has been vital to supply chain members. The Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is considered to be the best alternative to reduce the bullwhip effect and to achieve efficient customer response (ECR) of the supply chain. Through VMI, information on stock level can be shared between supplier and its customer. This research primarily focuses on the factors affecting corporations when considering the adoption of VMI which include: （1）the position in the supply chain, （2）readiness, （3）cognition benefit, （4）trading partner, and （5）organizational culture. This research is devoted to creating a framework to help corporations build VMI by analyzing these factors. By using questionnaire and analyzing the collected information via the statistical software SPSS, it demonstrated that “trading partner” is the most important factor when carrying out VMI, whereas “the position in the supply chain” turns out to be the least important. The sequence of the affecting factors offered by this research can serve as a roadmap when enterprises carry out the VMI, and eventually facilitate the promotion of VMI in Taiwan.