Vendor-managed inventory and consignment

Elements

The pieces this function usually contains in a large organisation:

• Supplier counts and replenishment
• Consignment stock ownership
• Sell-through settlement

Catalog items that already cover part of it

• Product consignment flag INV-0043
• Vendor ordering list INV-0103

What is not described

vendor-managed replenishment.

Classification

Status

Present partially

Fit

Element candidate

Suggested module

INV: Inventory, Products & Purchasing

Suggested attributes

Pro; priority Optional; optional online action. Starting points only.

Cluster

Distribution, supply chain and wholesale

Public excerpts

domain analysis

Archetypes and companies

Consumer-goods makers and bottlers; Foodservice and broadline wholesale distribution; Healthcare and pharmaceutical distribution; Big-box, warehouse club and mass merchants.

Example companies in these archetypes: Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola bottlers, Kraft Heinz, Anheuser-Busch, Sysco, US Foods, Performance Food Group, McLane, Core-Mark, C&S Wholesale, McKesson. These come from general knowledge unless a source code is shown on the archetype page; it is not a statement that each company runs every element, and it implies no relationship.

Closest industry pages

• Household and personal products
• Beverages, brewing and bottling
• Food production and processing
• Wholesale food and grocery
• Wholesale: diversified, building and industrial supplies
• Wholesale electronics, office and technology distribution
• Health care wholesale and distribution
• Medical products, supplies and devices
• Pharmaceuticals and biotech
• General merchandise and big-box stores

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Status is a hand review against catalog names and descriptions and can be wrong. See the method.