Project Report on Supply Chain Management of Walmart Under the Guidance of: Submitted by:
PROJECT REPORT ON
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT OF WALMART
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF: SUBMITTED BY: MOHD FAIZAN YUSUF PGDM 2009-11
Galgotias Business School
APPROVED BY AICTE, MİNİSTRY OF HRD, GOVT. OF INDİA) 1, KNOWLEDGE PARK, PHASE II, GREATER NOİDA. (U.P.)
INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPANY
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores and a chain of membership required warehouse stores. wall Mart ranked first in the global fortune 500 list in the financial year 2001-02 earning revenues of $219 billion. Wal
Mart was the largest retailing company in the world the company was much bigger than its competitors in the US.
The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. Wal-Mart, headquartered in
Bentonville, Arkansas, is the largest majority private employer.
Sam Walton a businessman from Arkansas, began his retail career when he started work on June
3, 1940, at a J. C. Penney store in Des Moines, Iowa where he remained for 18 months. In 1945, he met Butler Brothers, a regional retailer that owned a chain of variety stores called ben franklin and that offered him one in Newport, Arkansas. Walton was extremely successful in running the store in Newport, far exceeding expectations. However, when the lease came up for renewal, Walton could neither come to agreement on the existing store's lease renewal nor find a new location in Newport. Instead, he opened a new Ben Franklin franchise in Bentonville
Arkansas, but called it "Walton's Five and Dime." There, he
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT OF WALMART
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF: SUBMITTED BY: MOHD FAIZAN YUSUF PGDM 2009-11
Galgotias Business School
APPROVED BY AICTE, MİNİSTRY OF HRD, GOVT. OF INDİA) 1, KNOWLEDGE PARK, PHASE II, GREATER NOİDA. (U.P.)
INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPANY
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores and a chain of membership required warehouse stores. wall Mart ranked first in the global fortune 500 list in the financial year 2001-02 earning revenues of $219 billion. Wal
Mart was the largest retailing company in the world the company was much bigger than its competitors in the US.
The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. Wal-Mart, headquartered in
Bentonville, Arkansas, is the largest majority private employer.
Sam Walton a businessman from Arkansas, began his retail career when he started work on June
3, 1940, at a J. C. Penney store in Des Moines, Iowa where he remained for 18 months. In 1945, he met Butler Brothers, a regional retailer that owned a chain of variety stores called ben franklin and that offered him one in Newport, Arkansas. Walton was extremely successful in running the store in Newport, far exceeding expectations. However, when the lease came up for renewal, Walton could neither come to agreement on the existing store's lease renewal nor find a new location in Newport. Instead, he opened a new Ben Franklin franchise in Bentonville
Arkansas, but called it "Walton's Five and Dime." There, he