| Title | : | Half a Century of Supply Chain Management at Wal-Mart |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | P. Fraser Johnson & Ken Mark |
| Release | : | 2012-04-19 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Business & Personal Finance, Books, Management & Leadership |
| Size | : | 7496346 |
| A stock analyst is preparing a recommendation on what his firm, a large U.S. investment house, should do with its stake in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, was trying to recover from a series of missteps that had seen competitors such as Dollar Stores and Amazon.com close the performance gap. Competitors had copied many aspects of Wal-Mart’s distribution system, from cross-docking product to eliminate storage time in warehouses, positioning stores around distribution centres, and widespread adoption of electronic data interchange (EDI), to manage ordering and shipping from suppliers. |
