Half a Century of Supply Chain Management at Wal-Mart Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

Stock analyst makes recommendations about what his firm, a large U.S. investment house, has to do with its share of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world, is trying to recover from a series of missteps that saw competitors such as the U.S. Stores and Amazon.com to close the performance gap. Competitors have been copied many aspects of the distribution system Wal-Mart, on the cross-docking product for removing the storage in warehouses, stores around the positioning of distribution centers and the widespread introduction of electronic data interchange (EDI), order management and delivery from suppliers. "Hide
by P. Fraser Johnson, Ken Mark Source: Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation 23 pages. Publication date: April 19, 2012. Prod. #: W12894-PDF-ENG

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