VMI

British

abbreviation

vendor managed inventory: an inventory management system in which a supplier assumes responsibility for the timely replenishment of a customer's stock

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The task force will “determine whether educational services rendered by VMI are duplicated at other institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth” and “evaluate the relative cost to the Commonwealth and taxpayers.”

From The Wall Street Journal

An earlier draft sought to dissolve the board and put VMI under the oversight of Virginia State University.

From The Wall Street Journal

That would have all but erased VMI as an independent institution.

From The Wall Street Journal

When VMI declined to renew his contract in February 2025, the New York Times wrote that VMI’s “first black leader” had been “ousted.”

From The Wall Street Journal

He took a recruiting trip last week to VMI.

From Los Angeles Times

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