This paper considers the inventory management in a VMI programme consisting of a vendor, a retailer and a VMI warehouse near the retailer. Specifically, the vendor is authorised to manage the inventory of the VMI warehouse through (Q, r) policy, and the retailer controls the service level of the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a multivariate-based method to classify products in replenishment categories based on principal component analysis (PCA) along with two classification algorithms, k -nearest neighbor (KNN) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA)....