Question

WALMART’S RETAIL LINK SUPPLY CHAIN

1.Where does Walmart’s supply chain start?
What triggers Walmart’s Retail Link system to
ship goods to local Walmart Stores?

2. Why is a detailed knowledge of consumer purchases at each store important to
Walmart’s success?

3. Why can’t other large retailers easily duplicate Walmart’s Retail Link?

4. Why does Walmart encourage its vendors to learn how to use Retail Link?

Answer 1

Walmart is a retail giant in the industry operating across the seas and creating a big furtune out of it. Its the worlds largest and the most influencing retailer.

Some terms that   followed to build its empire are as follows.

Efficient Supply Chain
​Walmart's supply chain is one of the world's most efficient supply chain, Walmart uses very less break in between from the warehouse to their store reducing the costs and enhancing the overall profit.
By having an effective supply chain Walmart has successfully developed it advantage over its competitors and in providing different materials to the different places at a very standard time.
Sometimes it would be less than official for the company to have a supply chain dependent organisation because the whole system is depending on the supply chain if a part breaks down then there is a little delay in doing the business.

Strategic partnership
​Strategic partnership is one of main reasons of Walmart's success , Walmart find the best price supplier and ask them if they can fullfil the demand then a long term partnership program is offer which reduces the prices.
Strategic partnerships also provides a solid base walmart. By having different strategic partnerships Walmart at successfully integrated itself into market and merge into the competitors as well.
Sometimes is strategic partnerships also create a problem for the organisation as the partners start to show different characteristics rather than implementing the strategies with the Walmart.

Intuitive inventory storage
​Walmart uses very intuitive way of storing the inventory, It keep its inventory in truck and then later the inventory is loaded to the semi truck without moving them to the warehouse , this broadly increases the efficiency of the transportation and time.
Dependency on the too much Technology and totally depending on the intuitive storage system sometimes leads to failure as they can be technological as well as mechanical error.

Using latest technology
​Walmart uses state of the art sorting and transporting technologies to ensure the required quality and speed it requires and to obtain high profits and and super efficient system.
Technology based environment is always in fear of getting hacked, being misused and being operated by some other person rather than the companies official employees. Depending on too much Technology Kelly Walmart failure in terms of the technological errors.

Walmart used the terms listed above to build an environment for the low cost industry. It focused on the largest group of middle class people and the idea was to provide low cost product with great quality. Walmart provided the best supply and management system which cut down the costs thus customers were getting the products in best price with higher quality.

Walmart's strategy kept evolving according to the time and needs thus Walmart's low cost strategy is very well suited for the industry.

Company has implemented multiple database management systems for better communication inside your organisation for provision of inter connectivity in different departments. My connecting the different department communicate information flows from one department to another department in a horizontal way and provides efficient support as well as feedback.
Sudden changes in the supply chain as well as requirement of inventory is also done by the business communication from the bottom most store of Walmart to the top most authorities. By having a communication channel in different departments of the company Walmart has successfully manage to integrate itself into the organisational structure.
By implementation of HRIS walmart has successfully built a new system for efficiently communicating within the human resource information. This is specific system has increased the capability of Walmart to communicate with their overall employees and human resources inside the organisation to create a better working environment. By promoting you open communication between stakeholders and employees of the organisation Walmart has successfully managed to interconnect the department and provide better fluency of communication between two channels of the organisation. By arranging the sender, mediator, receiver system into the organisation Walmart has successfully manage to implement a new system which is totally based on electronics to provide send message to the receiver and take the feedback or an instant time.

Walmart supply chain is one of the finest examples of implementation of communication model. Walmart supply chain uses a digital communication structure from bottom to up. Sending out information from their inventory to the stores and stores to the inventory Walmart successfully manages the overall number of product in their inventory system. Buy automatic be communicated process from their inventory to the suppliers as well as getting supplies g has successfully managing the overall process of communication inside the organisation.

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