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Walmart's Supply Chain Management By: Brandon Robinson

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Page 1: By: Brandon Robinson. Walmart's Success Rising five-year trend, Walmart® grossed $476 billion in the fiscal year that ended in January 2014, up from $408.

Walmart's Supply Chain ManagementBy: Brandon Robinson

Page 2: By: Brandon Robinson. Walmart's Success Rising five-year trend, Walmart® grossed $476 billion in the fiscal year that ended in January 2014, up from $408.

Walmart's SuccessRising five-year trend, Walmart® grossed

$476 billion in the fiscal year that ended in January 2014, up from $408 billion in fiscal 2010

The National Retail Federation ranks Walmart as the world’s top retailer in 2014 based on global sales’ it has a “mature supplier collaboration process” supported by technology.

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Supply Chain ComponentsWalmart’s overall methods of supply chain

management differ little from the main components of most supply chains: purchasing, operations, distribution, and integration.

But Walmart has refined these methods.

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Purchasingpurchasing managers- who determine

which products will sell, find vendors and arrange deals for the products.

Removing chain links.

Strategic Sourcing

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OperationsOperations portion of a supply chain focuses

on demand planning, forecasting and inventory management.

Technology plays a key role in Walmart’s supply chain

Universal Product Code bar codes, Retail Link and Radio Frequency Identification Tags (RFID).

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DistributionMoving the product from warehouses or

manufacturing plants to stores and ultimately to customers.

Cross-Docking.

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IntegrationSupply chain integration connects the flow of

work and information among all links in the supply chain to maximize efficiencies.

Supply Chain Synchronization and Less Centralized Control.

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI),

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Conclusion

“Supply chain management is moving the right items to the right customer at the right time by the most efficient means”

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ReferencesLu, C. (2014, May 8). Incredibly successful supply chain

management: How does walmart do it? Retrieved April 20, 2015, from http://www.tradegecko.com/blog/incredibly-successful-supply-chain-management-walmart

Walmart: Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management. (2015, January 1). Retrieved April 20, 2015, from http://www.usanfranonline.com/resources/supply-chain-management/walmart-keys-to-successful-supply-chain-management/#.VTWQwU10wq1