製造商使用 VMI 計劃的 5 個原因

Here’s a look at five reasons why Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a growing practice to streamline your supply chain, reduce costs, increase part consumption visibility and redeploy labor for more important activities.

供應商管理的庫存（VMI）或庫存管理自1980年代開始出現，當時沃爾瑪（Walmart）等公司使用它來革新其供應鏈。從那時起的30年中，庫存管理已發展為各種規模的公司都可以使用。如今，人工智能（AI）和物聯網（IoT）等新技術使組織能夠優化其VMI程序，並幫助他們繼續創新和改善供應鏈管理。

什麼是VMI？

簡單來說，VMI讓其他人（供應商）管理您的庫存。供應商全權負責確保在正確的時間將正確的物品放到正確的位置。

But VMI is bigger in scope and benefits than just ‘managing parts.’ It’s about streamlining your supply chain, reducing costs, having higher visibility into your part consumption, and reallocating human resources away from slow, manual, error-prone work to more quality-focused, value-add responsibilities.

What’s Accelerating VMI?

供應商減少計劃和新興技術繼續加速VMI的採用。

減少供應商（也稱為供應商合併）的目的是減少特定供應市場中的供應商數量，以節省資金。

Paul Przyby, Vice President of Sales & General Manager at Optimas Solutions, has observed the evolution of supply chain management up close for the past several decades. He sees more companies optimizing their existing VMI programs as part of their supplier reduction efforts: “Taking just ten suppliers out of your system can make a huge impact. That’s why working with us – one supplier who can manage from procurement to replenishment – makes their lives much easier.”

或考慮將新供應商添加到您的供應鏈中的成本。一些專家建議 每五年僅增加十個額外供應商的成本就是$1百萬.

The parts themselves make up only 15% of those costs, while the human resources required to select, manage and process those suppliers take up the other 85%. Whether you’re trying to actively reduce suppliers, or are trying to control the number of suppliers added to your supply chain over time, VMI can help. For more on this, read our 供應商合併案例研究

Here’s a look at five reasons why VMI is a growing practice and why more small to medium-sized manufacturers are implementing this model.

1. 1. Technology Streamlines Processes – 供應商管理的庫存系統利用各種技術來自動化整個供應鏈中的簡單和復雜流程。這使您可以從流程中刪除步驟和內部人員，從而提高了訂購，交付，存儲和補充每個零件的效率。
   2. Improved Data Visibility – The entire supply chain workflow gets more efficient with VMI solutions –from the plant floor to the top of the supply chain. When all departments have better visibility into your inventory levels and consumption they can make better data-driven decisions and avoid stock-outs or shortages.
   3. Reduced Costs – 更好的庫存管理使您可以減少現有庫存。這樣可以減少浪費和過時，並減少管理庫存所需的人員。在訂購方面，能夠與單個VMI合作夥伴下達單個PO，可以減少隱藏的軟成本，這些成本累加了很多零件和許多訂單。 VMI合作夥伴由於訂購量巨大，通常可以利用其槓桿購買力。
   4. Improved Workflow and Productivity – 單憑庫存管理並不能保證提高組織的生產率，但是它提供的改進的工作流程無疑可以提供幫助。優秀的VMI合作夥伴將評估您當前的工作流程，從接收到路由到補貨，並找到刪除步驟，節省時間和金錢的方法
   5. Valued Partnership – VMI是真正的合作夥伴關係，兩家公司都專注於效率和盈利能力。 VMI合作夥伴可以為您提供更多的供應商多樣性，保證在您需要的時間和地點準時交貨，並尋找方法來不斷增強您的運營以節省成本並提高質量。

尋找值得信賴的VMI合作夥伴

The promises of inventory management are many: lower costs, fewer stockouts, less waste, higher inventory turnover and better forecasting. Today’s supply chain solutions coupled with the 正確的VMI合作夥伴 可以兌現這些諾言。

Przyby explains: “It’s important to remember that no two supply chains are alike. A VMI partner needs to spend the time getting to know your organization so they can develop the right customized VMI program for you.”

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