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WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT        1
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT
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Describe Wal-Mart’s supply chain and how it integrates with the other elements of its strategy.    4
If you were in the position of Johnnie Dobbs, what is your analysis of Wal-Mart’s supply chain? Are the company’s supply chain capabilities still a source of competitive advantage? Why or why not?    5
What is your evaluation of the Remix and RFID initiatives? Is Remix and RFID the right place for the company to focus its efforts?    5
Is the company’s target for maintaining inventory growth at a rate of 50 percent of sales growth reasonable?    6
Where do you see the opportunities for Wal-Mart in its global supply chain?    6
What are the concerns for Wal-Mart?    7
What are some of the logistics activities that a manufacturer could outsource?    7
Why would a manufacturer decide to outsource its logistics function? What are some of the advantages associates with outsourcing the logistics function to a third-party provider?    8
What are some of the drawbacks associated with outsourcing the logistics function to a third- or fourth-party provider?    9
What do you speculate are some of the emerging trends that are influencing the structure of the third-party logistics (3PL) industry?    10
How does the Wheels Group add value for its customers?    10
What are the Wheels Group’s core competencies and what has made the business successful to date?    10
Should the Wheels Group pursue a non-asset-based growth strategy or an asset-based strategy? Why or why not?    11
What are the advantages and disadvantages associates with pursuing each alternative?    11
References    13
Describe Wal-Mart’s supply chain and how it integrates with the other elements of its strategy.
Walmart has developed into one of the best calculated and functional organizations in this present reality. Walmart Stores, Inc. was the world's biggest retailer in 2006, with deals of 312.4 billion bucks from tasks in 15 nations (Jindal, Gauri, Li & Ma, 2021). Sam Walton's foundation of "ordinary low valuing" has served to Walmart's progress in utilizing its supply chain, working on the clients' insight by reducing expenses and expanding efficiency to give to clients at a lower cost than the contenders. Walton concocted a system that cut out the agents, giving Walmart traction and permitting it to use its supply organization.
Walmart's supply chain is fabricated and worked utilizing an assortment of approaches –
· Dissemination and Expansion to accomplish economies of scale, Walmart finds its circulation habitats in key spots to support and restock a few shops in somewhere around a day's driving distance. It picked low-lease rural areas that were close to significant streets. In-house shipping was incorporated to help limit transportation time, cost, and failures.
· The foundation of Walmart's arrangement to convey comfort and assortment in a one-quit mall is "Ordinary low valuing" (EDLP). Walmart didn't have to advance as oftentimes as its rivals in light of its EDLP methodology, and had the option to reinvest the investment funds in cost decreases. Clients were hoodwinked into thinking they were getting the best limits at Walmart because of EDLP. Clients never again need to search for excellent limits somewhere else, ensuring that they can have what they need when they need it.
· Frameworks of Information Walmart perceive the requirement for innovation to upgrade activities and buy conjectures as a feature of its endless endeavors to cut client estimating. Walmart's supply chain depends vigorously on innovation, and EDI assists with upgrading in-stock rates at stores, further develop client experience, and better control the planning of JIT conveyances from providers (Tan, Yan, Chen & Liu, 2018).
If you were in the position of Johnnie Dobbs, what is your analysis of Wal-Mart’s supply chain? Are the company’s supply chain capabilities still a source of competitive advantage? Why or why not?
Walmart is a retail behemoth with monstrous piece of the pie that separates itself by offering "regular low costs" all through its supply chain. Walmart's modest in-store stocks have helped organization gain and hold portion of the overall industry. Walton's vision to improve and smooth out the supply chain through essential merchant organizations, dissemination focuses, in-house shipping armadas, retailing techniques, and using advances to all the more likely speak with providers on further developing stock stream at every area to stay away from stock outs has brought about the organization's prosperity.
What is your evaluation of the Remix and RFID initiatives? Is Remix and RFID the right place for the company to focus its efforts?
Walmart's objective in sending off a remix program was to expand the...