according to our text‚ include: *valuable‚ *rare‚ *difficult to imitate‚*nonsubstitutable. Wal-Mart’s Core Competencies: 1. Culture- One core competency Wal-Mart has is its culture. Wal-Mart’s employees are hardworking‚ efficient‚ and process oriented. In the video “The Age of Wal-Mart” it pointed out that Sam Walton‚ founder of Wal-Mart‚ called his employees associates and treated them as partners. He wanted their input and ideas on how to make the company better. Also‚ no matter what
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value is composed of three sub factors: (1) Product price‚ (2) Relative price and (3) Promotion. The other factors for customer satisfaction in descending order of its importance are Image‚ Merchandize‚ Shopping environment‚ Service‚ Check-out process and Store policy. Wal-Mart thrived for offering quality merchandise at the lowest price and with best customer service possible. Wal-Mart also had a reputed image as a foreign supermarket chain in China. Due to all these favorable factors customers
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Assignment: Choose an organization you are familiar with and (a). Submit an SWOT analysis of the organization with an evaluation of each element of the SWOT. Wal-Mart III. SWOT analysis Strength The strength of Wal-Mart is the popularity. The company is known worldwide. The company’s strength is the brand name which is very strong. The mark strength is what returns the company‚ its products and services popular. In addition the company’s strength is its ability to make strategic adjustments
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Wal-Mart ’s Supply Chain Management Practices Abstract: The case examines the supply chain management practices at Wal-Mart‚ the leading retailer in the world. The case explains in detail how Wal-Mart managed various components of the supply chain including procurement‚ distribution‚ logistics and inventory management. It covers how the use of innovative IT tools has helped the company in improving the efficiency of supply chain. The case concludes with a discussion on the benefits reaped by Wal-Mart
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People of Walmart Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world. This includes over 4‚800 stores‚ including 1.475 discount stores‚ 1‚750 Wal-Mart Supercenter combination discount and grocery stores‚ and 540 Sam’s Club warehouse stores. Walmart is an international company with stores reaching multiple continents throughout the world. They have sales of over $250 billion and made profits of $9.1 billion. They employee over 1‚500‚000 people worldwide and plan to add an additional 800‚000 people by
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Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign‚ IL 61820 Abstract This paper describes the development of channel partnership between a manufacturer (Procter and Gamble‚ or P&G) and a retailer (Wal-Mart). Both major players in their industries‚ P&G and WalMart found a way to leverage on information technology by sharing data across their mutual supply chains. The resulting channel has become more efficient because channel activities are better coordinated. There are reduced needs for inventories with increased
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Wal-Mart de Mexico Comercial Mexicana S.A. (Comerci)‚ one of Mexico’s largest retail chains‚ was faced with a serious dilemma. Since Wal-Mart’s aggressive entry into the Mexican retail market‚ Comerci has found it increasingly difficult to remain competitive. Wal-Mart’s strong operating presence and low prices since NAFTA’s lifting of tariffs have put pressure on Comerci‚ and now management must decide if it can improve Comerci’s competitive position by remaining independent or by merging with
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At present‚ the most important goal for Wal-Mart is to maintain their current net sales growth of approximately 12 percent per year. As the world’s largest company‚ Wal-mart’s own vast size serves as the main impediment to achieving this goal.Furthermore‚ Wal-mart may have saturated the market in the United States thereby limiting its ability to expand domestically. The best solution for achieving the above goal is to expand into international markets that have large population centers. Increasing
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Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. operates retail stores in various formats in the United States and internationally. It has two segments: The Wal-Mart Stores and The SAM’S CLUB. The Wal-Mart Stores segment includes Discount Stores‚ Supercenters‚ and Neighborhood Markets in the United States‚ as well as Walmart.com. It offers apparel for women‚ girls‚ men‚ boys‚ and infants; domestics‚ fabrics‚ and notions; stationery and books; shoes; housewares; hardware; electronics; home furnishings; small appliances; automotive
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Wal-Mart stores in 2003 Identify the issue Wal-Mart stores‚ one of the most successful retailing chain in the world‚ has gain competitive advantage over its competitors. Thanks to his unique set of features‚ like its powerful IT system‚ its way of manage suppliers or its logistic system‚ Wal-Mart is able to responds quickly at demand changing‚ maintain low costs and satisfy its customers. Framework used in analysis The analysis will be conducted using the value chain framework in order to analyze
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