The goal of Vendor Managed Inventory is to include key customers in your supply chain planning. This provides business benefits for both partners for the user as well as for the customer.

Vendor management produces sales orders in the short term and reservations in the medium term. Before the orders are created, transport load-building algorithms in Supply Chain Network. In Supply Network Planning, the user creates a Vendor management customer (both a ship-to and a sell-to customer) as a "location". This is networked with the rest of the supply chain using a transport connection. For planning purposes, a customer of this type is regarded as a distribution center or a production plant. Unlike conventional sales planning, the user forecasts consumer demand as opposed to incoming orders.