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

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

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 • Feb. 26, 2026

Catalano recommended VMI take a look at Lewis.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

Doe chose not to apply to VMI and suffered economic and emotional harm from the school’s “severe, pervasive and objectively offensive” handling of her case, the lawsuit alleges.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023

It is the story of more than two hundred young VMI Cadets, who without hesitation left their classrooms to fight alongside hardened veterans at the battle of New Market in 1864.

From The Civil War Centennial Handbook by Price, William H.

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