Zavanella and Zanoni (2009) investigated the way how a particular VMI policy, known as Consignment Stock (CS), may represent a successful strategy for both the buyer and the supplier.
Disposition options for sellers include consignment as well as sealed-bid and open-bid auctions.
Reports of ivory seizures are a regular occurrence in Mombasa, Kenya's largest port, where just this month large shipments of ivory have been discovered, in one case disguised as a haul of sun-dried fish, and in another as a consignment of 240 bags of groundnuts.
Another witness, Abu Fouad, claimed the attack took place as a consignment of fuel arrived and crowds packed the station.
The Skyscraper Museum had hoped to borrow the bowl from the Gilbert family, just as the consignment to Skinner was under way.
He also insisted the gallery buy the work and resell it to Mr. Howard, rather than just act as a consignment broker.
Bernhardt is said then to have travelled by ship to Beirut, where arrangements were made to pack the weapons into a shipping container labelled as a consignment of ceramic floor tiles.
He was the longest serving member of the pottery, starting as a consignment packer for deliveries, and went on to be one of the last three potters, along with Joanna Wason and Amanda Brier, to remain there until its closure in 2005.
That way, it believes, data will have to be properly entered (which is not always the case now), and algorithms can be established that will flag up potentially dodgy entries - such as a consignment that has apparently been fattened beyond feasible limits in ranches.
