Strategy Wal-Mart Case Study: Procurement by Seiran Park https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6 Made with a dash of wit en-us 2021-02-11 09:52:55 UTC 2024-10-13 11:36:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Organisation seiranpark https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6/wish/1191462181 - the sharing of information electronically
- the use of Electronic Data Interchange since the 1980s
- bypass manufacturers' representatives
- "Top managers at Wal-Mart still pinched pennies in these and other ways. Wal-Mart even called its suppliers collect." (Ghemawat et al., 2004, 6)]]> 2021-02-11 10:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6/wish/1191462181 Rarity saulwilson92 https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6/wish/1191462808 In term of the up to date information and quantity of data avalaible, there is clear an apect of rariity in the case of walk:

"as of late 2002, Wal-Mart remained the only source of (close to) real-time retail data for a large community of suppliers. "
"250-terabyte analytic database that was supposed to be the second-largest private database in the world "
"mined the data to rapidly re-optimize its merchandising mix "


]]> 2021-02-11 10:03:04 UTC https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6/wish/1191462808 Imitability https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6/wish/1191470854 Wal-mart's retail link private exhchange. 

"Wal-mart's competitors banded together to create public exchanges such as World Wide Retail Exchange and GNX to reduce transaction costs through auctions and reverse auctions"

"The data warehouse consisted of a 250-terabyte analytic database... second largest private database in the world"

"while the information in the database was proprietary, the skills that went into developing and using it and other systems proved harder to protect"

Hard to protect – Between 1997 and 1998 “more than a dozen of Walmart’s key information systems personnel left to work for Amazon.com and its affiliate, Drugstore.com

]]> 2021-02-11 10:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6/wish/1191470854 Value https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6/wish/1191479518 Centralise control and communication with suppliers

"forecasting, planning, replenishing, and shipping applications"

Lead to a reduction in costs and therefore sustain competitive advantage

]]> 2021-02-11 10:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6/wish/1191479518 Wal-Mart's core capabilities seiranpark https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6/wish/1191506476 - cost leadership
- operates on a huge scale





]]> 2021-02-11 10:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6/wish/1191506476 saulwilson92 https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6/wish/1191524573 2021-02-11 10:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/seiranpark/zh4wnjwzhvot9fc6/wish/1191524573