Emerald Article: A standard agreement for vendor managed inventory
Francesco Zammori, Marcello Braglia, Marco Frosolini
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To cite this document: Francesco Zammori, Marcello Braglia, Marco Frosolini, (2009),"A standard agreement for vendor managed inventory", Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal, Vol. 2 Iss: 2 pp. 165 - 186
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References: sustainable competitive advantage whether they compete as part of the supply chain and not as single entities (Ellram, 1995; Cooper and Ellram, 1997; Beamon, 1998). deliver the products that customers demand (Hines and Rich, 1998). In this regard, the outsourcing of logistic functions has been a great opportunity for many companies, ¨ (Rabinovich et al., 1999; Gol and Catay, 2007) using a third party logistic provider, as this increases the involvement of the provider himself and facilitates the integration of the entire supply chain (Boyson et al., 1999; Bolumole, 2001; De Boer et al., 2006). possible (Daugherty et al., 1999; Mason-Jones et al., 2000; Sabath et al., 2001). Vol. 2 No. 2, 2009 pp being outsourced (Ferrozzi and Shapiro, 2000). Although literature on this subject is extensive, it is somewhat surprising that the number of practical and technical works industrial situations (see for example Goyal and Gupta, 1989; Braglia and Zavanella,