doi: 10.4304/jsw.6.7.1374-1380
Information Flow Management of Vendor- Managed Inventory System in Automobile Parts Inbound Logistics Based on Internet of Things
- 1 School of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China
- 2 School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, Shanghai 201209, China
Abstract
Reducing inventory levels is a major supply chain management challenge in automobile industries. With the development of information technology new cooperative supply chain contracts emerge such as Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI). This research aims to look at the literature of information management of VMI and the Internet of Things, then analyzes information flow model of VMI system. The paper analyzes information flow management of VMI system in automobile parts inbound logistics based on the environment of Internet of Things.
Keywords
- Automobile Parts Inbound Logistics
- Vend
How to Cite
Xiaohui Liu and Youwang Sun, "Information Flow Management of Vendor- Managed Inventory System in Automobile Parts Inbound Logistics Based on Internet of Things," Journal of Software, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 1374-1380, 2011. https://doi.org/ 10.4304/jsw.6.7.1374-1380
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Copyright © 2011 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).