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VENDOR MANAGED INVENTORY (VMI)
LET YOUR WAREHOUSE DATA DRIVE REPLENISHMENT, NOT GUESSWORK
WHAT IS VENDOR MANAGED INVENTORY?
Vendor Managed Inventory is an arrangement where the supplier - not the retailer or buyer - takes responsibility for monitoring stock levels and triggering replenishment, using real-time inventory and sales data instead of manual purchase orders. Instead of a customer or retail partner placing reactive orders when they notice they're running low, the warehouse tracks consumption and restocks proactively, based on agreed-upon minimum and maximum thresholds. It's most common in retail and manufacturing supply relationships, where stockouts and overstock are both expensive, and where the vendor has better visibility into demand patterns than the buyer does.
We connect your brand with 3PL partners equipped to run VMI programs - the data infrastructure, replenishment logic, and account coordination it takes to manage inventory on a customer's behalf rather than just fulfilling orders as they come in.
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN VENDOR MANAGED INVENTORY
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Real-time inventory visibility — shared dashboards giving retail/buyer partners live stock data
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Automated replenishment triggers — restocking based on min/max thresholds instead of manual POs
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Demand forecasting — using historical sales and seasonality data to anticipate replenishment needs
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EDI integration — automated data exchange (830s, 852s, 856s) with retail trading partners
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Consignment inventory management — tracking vendor-owned stock held at a customer or retail location
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Safety stock management — maintaining buffer inventory to prevent stockouts without overstocking
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Multi-location replenishment — coordinating stock levels across multiple customer or retail sites
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Performance reporting — fill rate, stockout, and turnover metrics tied to the VMI agreement
WHO THIS IS FOR
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Suppliers and manufacturers managing inventory on behalf of retail or wholesale customers
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Brands with retail partners requiring VMI as a condition of the account relationship
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Companies experiencing frequent stockouts or overstock due to reactive, manual ordering
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Businesses with the sales data and forecasting maturity to take on replenishment responsibility
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Manufacturers supplying consignment inventory to distributors or retail locations
WHY MATCH INSTEAD OF LOCK IN
VMI requires infrastructure most standard fulfillment operations don't have - the EDI integrations, forecasting tools, and account-level coordination it takes to manage a customer's inventory rather than just process their orders. We match your brand with a 3PL partner with proven VMI experience for your specific retail relationships and data systems, rather than assuming any warehouse can take on replenishment responsibility as reliably as it can pick and pack.