Presented by Dua Fatima

Contents
• Introduction
• Wal-Mart’s supply chain
• The effectiveness of Wal-Mart’s integrated supply chain
• recommendation
• Conclusion
 Introduction
• Chain of large discount department store
• Founded by Sam Walton in 1962
• Wal-Mart has 8,446 retail units in 15 countries.
 Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Supply chain management encompasses the

planning and management of all activities involved
in sourcing and procurement, conversion, and all
logistics management activities 
 Wal-Mart’s supply chain
1. Procurement and distribution
• The company procured goods directly from manufacturers
• its distribution centers are located in different areas

2. Logistics
• 3,500 trucks serving for distribution centers
• an innovative cross-docking logistics technique

a. Opportunistic Cross Docking

b. Flow-through Cross Docking
c. Distributor Cross Docking
d. Manufacturer Cross Docking
e. Pre- Allocated Cross Docking
 Wal-Mart’s supply chain
3. Inventory Management
•  1983 Wal-Mart set up its own satellite system to navigate and transfer data
through the linked computer system across the country
• The way forward RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
• In 2015, the company spent a reported $10.5 billion on information
technology
 The effectiveness of Wal-Mart’s integrated
supply chain

• Powerful relationships with suppliers

• looks after their customers’ demands and maintains an efficiency in-
stock level
• integrated supply chain is a key means of competitive advantage for
the fast and impressive growth of Wal-Mart
• focuses on internal relationship between the company and its
workers and external relationships between the company, suppliers
and customers.
 Recommendation

• Walmart must prioritize using its strengths to exploit opportunities

in the global retail market.
• the company must continue expanding its business to exploit
economic opportunities in developing markets. 
• the company must implement strategic changes based on the
weaknesses and threats
 Conclusion

Wal-Mart is huge success only because it follows three

basic principle of business i.e. Minimization of cost. High
production. Lead to maximization of profit. Wal-Mart has
been increasingly growing mainly due to they always seek
to improve, provide extended services, lowest possible
price in the market and appropriate supply chain practices.
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