A Case Study Of Walmart's Supply Chain Management

This essay is about the supply chain management. Main aim is to build up an organization which can conduct proper functioning to meet the need of the customers. It is very important to enhance the performance of the organization at long term basis. Before starting it should be known to us that what is supply chain management. As said “Supply chain management is the design and management of seamless value added processes across organizational boundaries to meet the real needs of the end customer.” (Fawcett, Ellram, & Ogden, 2014) All the multinational companies wants the best supply chain in an international level as importing the products from different areas and assembling it at one place and then forwarding it to the customers for …show more content…
As Walmart make decisions by keep in mind the demand in the area where it is going to set up and the outbound logistics cost from the distribution centers to stores. As Walmart started vendor managed inventory where suppliers are obliged to manage Walmart’s inventory replenishment via electronic access . As two main information system was deployed that is Retail Link which helped in …show more content…
As organizations intending to respond to the emerging business opportunities must be flexible in all the fields such as in case of supply of the products, in customer service ,and in the plans for the future which should be according to the market behavior .As the completion is increasing one who supplies the good or service at lowest possible cost and having the best quality will emerge in the market successfully (Ansari & Qureshi, 2015). As In this the companies do not compete with each other but they improves their self managing power to attract the customers and increase the profit by increasing the sales of their product. In old days supply chains were made to reduce costs while now they are made to satisfy the demands of the end user. (Wilding