Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI), also referred to as Supplier-Managed
Inventory (SMI), is a logistic instrument for improving the performance in the supply chain giving the supplier access to the customer’s stock inventory and request data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor-managed_inventoryHereby, we are able to ascertain the quantities to be delivered and to communicate the delivery quantities via EDI on the basis of both the consumption and the stock inventory data.