Wal-Mart's Supply Chain Management Practices
Managing the Supply ChainWal-Mart has been able to achieve respectable leadership in the retail industry because of its focus on supply chain management. The use of innovative information technology tools had benefited Wal-Mart's supply chain management.
Procurement and Distribution
Logistics Management
Inventory Management
Additional Reading- "Cross docking: The move from supply to demand", by Christine Rowat
- "Cross Docking and Cross Docking Network Design", www.tli.isye.gatech.edu
- "Warehouse Evolution: High Tech Developments Get Industry Cooking", Plants, sites and parks magazine, www.bizsites.com
- "Cross-docking in the U.K," Siemens Dematic, www.siemensdematic.com.au, 2001.
- Cross docking delivers for Retail", www.spscommerce.com
- "Value Chain Report- Warehouse Management Systems Add Value," www.industryweek.com, www.iwvaluechain.com
- "Digital Age warehousing," Penton Media, www.industryweek.com
- "Distribution strategies, Supply Chain analysis at Volkswagen of America," www.eng.auburn.edu
- "It's not only the retail side, Wal-Mart Distribution", www.Wal-Martwatch.com
- "Stauffer V Wal-Mart stores, Inc., www.oalj.dol.gov
- "The Management of Business Logistics: A Supply Chain Prospective," www.house.gov
- "Thrify Wal-Mart Partner for Flat Rate Rental Plan," Auto Rental News, www.autorentalnews.com
- "Trans-loading, Cross docking," www.commoditylogistics.com
- "Wal-Mart.com: The Physical giant goes Virtual," Red Herring Magazine, www.redherring.com
- "Voluntary retail chains and the threats and opportunities of European Integration," www.snee.org
- "What is cross docking?, The Warehouse Word, www.colofwhousing.com.au
- "Wholesale Distribution, Managing complex supply chain requirements in the foodservice industry," wholesaledistribution.services.ibm.com
- "Supply Chain Management the Wal-Mart Way," Supply Chain and Logistics Journal, www.infochain.org
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