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1、整理课件Analysis of Wal-Marts Supply Chain Management With Recommendations 整理课件Basic Information of Wal-Mart Wal-Mart Stores is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department stores. It is the worlds largest public corporation by revenue, according to the 2008 Fortune 500

2、. Supply chain management is moving the right items to the right customer at the right time by the most efficient means. No one does that better than Wal-Mart.整理课件整理课件Flourishing Supplier relationship management Supplier is a very essential segment of the value chain. In the past, Wal-Mart was looke

3、d very uncompromising in the eyes of suppliers since it always required them to reduce the price of procurement. In the late 1980s, as the progress of technology, there were more means for suppliers to cut down the cost, so Wal-Mart started to improve the relationship with suppliers.整理课件 It stopped

4、to transfer its notion to holistic view which is vital when coordinate with others. It shared information with suppliers through network and EDI system. A representative instance is its relationship integration with P&G via collaboration.整理课件The cooperation between Wal-Mart and P&G realized a win-wi

5、n situation. The principle generated during their cooperation evolved into a criterion on supply chain management, whose acronym is CPRF整理课件C Collaboration: it emphasizes that the aim of the partners should be uniform. This kind of collaboration is a long-term relationship. The information is shared

6、 by each other and the collaboration is not only limited on the tier of strategy but also on operational implementation. .整理课件P Planning: as collaborating between two companies, there are so many things of different aspects to plan, such as operation, accounting. The planning of each company on each

7、 of the aspect should be similar in order to realize the collective objective. 整理课件F Forecasting: based on different sort of resource and view, suppliers and retailers may pay attention to different aspects of a product. To forecast the trend and seasonality of a product in a proper way, the partner

8、s will spend time on negotiation.整理课件R Replenishment: lead time, EOP, safety inventory are vitalelements in this facet and all of those elements will be considered regularly. Besides, in the process of replenishment, some elasticity should be maintained for replying to the crisis整理课件InternalFactorsS

9、trengthsWeaknessesWal-Mart is a powerful retail brand. It has a reputation for value for money and convenienceWal-Marts IT advantages could leave it weak in some areas.ExternalFactorsOpportunitiesThreatsTo take over, merge with, or form strategic alliances with other global retailers, focusing on sp

10、ecific markets such as Europe or the Greater China Region.Being number one means that you are the target of competition, locally and globally.整理课件Conclusion As the world has been linked tightly and tightly, any organization, if they want to succeed in the new era, it is important to transfer their w

11、ay of thinking to process thinking and pay more attention to the whole supply chain in which it survives. 整理课件 Nowadays, the competition isnt company versus company but supply chain versus supply chain. How to reduce cost of logistics, how to cooperate with suppliers, from Wal-Mart, we can learn many things. 整理课件 I