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Walmart Operations Management Case Study

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Walmart has over 158 distribution centres which is the core of their overall activities and business. They are also known to be one of the biggest companies that have a huge distribution operation. Under Walmart logistics, it consists of about 6500 tractors, 55000 trailers and lastly, over more than 7000 drivers aiding in this logistics process. Among all of Walmart’s distribution centres, there is a regional distribution centre whereby it has a length of around 12 miles which is used to transport huge amount of goods using this space given. It also includes 9 disaster distributions which are placed around the country at vital spots so that it’s able to reach out to people who are suffering in lieu of a natural disaster such as earthquakes …show more content…

Recently, the company also start to utilize smart tags that can be easily analyzed by a scanner which conveniently allows workers from Walmart to find out which products have to be restock so that the shelves will not enter out of stock situations.
Walmart is able to bring in benefits from its own supply chain system due to lesser time wasted, quick replenishment of inventory, bigger storage space for inventories and specific outlook on its inventory levels.
From the past decade, Walmart rise up to be the biggest and capable merchant with the most number of sales, highest inventory turnover as well as operating profit of any discount retailer in the world. As they move towards being a global-oriented retailer, the company itself manage to have the most outstanding supply chain system.

Walmart aims to provide the type of goods customers desire the most during the time they need it and where they want to get their good. The company starts to concentrate on ways to provide cheap and affordable prices for customers by redefining their cost system. Next, Walmart focus on redefining their own supply chain management so as to remain competitive and top in the market …show more content…

Walmart came up with a supply chain initiative known as Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) whereby the manufacturers are answerable in the way on how they deal with their products in Walmart’s warehouse. Due to Walmart’s good management skills, they are able to achieve almost full percentage on order fulfilments for their

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