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Vendor Managed Inventory HomeVendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a family of business models in which the buyer of a product provides certain information to a supplier of that product and the supplier takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of the material, usually at the buyer's consumption location (usually a store). A third party logistics provider is involved who makes sure that the buyer have the required level of inventory by adjusting the demand and supply gaps. As a symbiotic relationship, VMI makes it less likely that a business will unintentionally become out of stock of a good and reduces inventory in the supply chain. Furthermore, vendor (supplier) representatives in a store benefit the vendor by ensuring the product is properly displayed and store staff are familiar with the features of the product line, all the while helping to clean and organize their product lines for the store. One of the keys to making VMI work is shared risk. Often if the inventory does not sell, the vendor (supplier) will repurchase the product from the buyer (retailer). In other cases, the product may be in the possession of the retailer but is not owned by the retailer until the sale takes place, meaning that the retailer simply houses (and assists with the sale of) the product in exchange for a predetermined commission or profit. A special form of this commission business is scan-based trading whereas VMI is usually applied but not mandatory to be used. This is one of the successful business models used by Wal-Mart and many other big box retailers. Home Depot uses the technique with larger suppliers of manufactured goods (ie. Moen, Delta, RIDGID, Paulin). VMI helps foster a closer understanding between the supplier and manufacturer by using Electronic Data Interchange formats, EDI software and statistical methodologies to forecast and maintain correct inventory in the supply chain. Vendors benefit from more control of displays and more contact to impart knowledge on employees; retailers benefit from reduced risk, better store staff knowledge (which builds brand loyalty for both the vendor and the retailer), and reduced display maintenance outlays. Consumers benefit from knowledgeable store staff who are in frequent and familiar contact with manufacturer (vendor) representatives when parts or service are required, store staff with good knowledge of most product lines offered by the entire range of vendors and therefore the ability to help the customer choose amongst competing products for items most suited to them, manufacturer-direct selection and service support being offered by the store, and finally the relatively frequent occurrence of "Well, I'm pretty sure this is right for your needs but let me take you over to Luc; Luc works for Company X and he's the real expert on their stuff".
Video Module Interface HomeThis is a video bus standard, similar to VESA Feature Connector, VIP and AMC Virtual Machine Interface HomeVirtual Machine Interface("VMI") may refer to a communication protocol for running parallel programs on a distributed memory system. Virtual Machine Interface is also the name given by VMware to the open standard proposition describing the protocol that guest operating systems can use to communicate with the hypervisor of virtual machine. An implementation of this standard is scheduled for merging in Linux kernel starting from version 2.6.21. A number of popular GNU/Linux distributions ship with VMI support enabled by default already now.
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