Identify the products and services sold by group and category Wal-mart’s products services ranges from a variety of items. Throughout Wal-marts stores which includes: super-centers‚ neighborhood markets and Sam club’s in the Untied States they offer over 50‚000 different items. The product offered by Wal-mart can be grouped from electronic‚ movies‚ music‚ books‚ toys‚ baby necessaries‚ jewelry‚ sports ‚ things for the home‚ garden and patio‚ gift registry‚ video games‚ books
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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 the situation and activities that Wal-Mart currently faces. The different resources and capabilities will be organized and categorized according to the value chain.
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In November of 1962 Mr. Sam Walton was opened Wal-Mart. It is largest retail store chain in America. Wal-Mart itself has a big brand and the market leader of Retail sector in US. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million associates worldwide in more than 3‚700 stores in the US and more than 1‚500 throughout the rest of the world. Strategy of Wal-Mart is the low price. Wal-Mart outlets is spread throughout the world and doing well. Vision Statement:- “Our vision is to provide good quality and services to our
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Financial Leverage Analysis Typical nonfinancial firms have debt ratios at or below 50%. Each of these three companies has debt ratios above this mark‚ with Target having the highest at over 65%. This is surprising given the enormous success of these companies. A large portion of each company’s debt lies within their accounts payable‚ meaning that these companies owe large amounts of money to their suppliers. This is not surprising though due to the quick inventory turnover that is common
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Financial Management Assignment 1: Financial Analysis Wal-Mart March 07‚ 2013 About Wal-Mart For this assignment‚ I select Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. Wal-Mart is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores and a chain of warehouse stores. Wal-Mart operates more than 8‚692 retail units across three business segments of retail stores worldwide that offer a wide array of general merchandise including groceries‚ apparel‚ electronics‚ and small appliances
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In an article from the Washington Post‚ it is implied that there is no personal privacy within our technological world. Craig Timberg’s article‚ “Cellphones Used As Secret Trackers” startles the smartphone users of our society by revealing that their location can be found and tracked by anyone at anytime. This reminds me of the novel 1984 by George Orwell‚ in which privacy is nonexistent. There is an incredibly strict control of the people within this dystopian society and with the use of electronics
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Rehan Karowaliya 26 Feb‚2013 Walmart 1. Walmart has a brilliant Distribution System and Logistics Management that helps in maintaining the company’s performance in many ways. The Distribution System procures goods directly from the manufacture‚ eliminating the intermediaries. They negotiate with manufacturers and make sure that they are purchasing each and every product from them with lowest cost running in the market. This in turn creates long term relationship with vendors. Another efficient
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In “Why Wal-Mart is good” Steve Maich makes a number of statements supporting Walmart and its expansion‚ while Liza Featherstone disagrees with “Down and Out in Discount America” and supports her own statements citing Walmart’s various evils. The authors primary disagree not only over the various values that are key to the Walmart debates‚ but also of important factual information. One reason Walmart is currently involved in this struggle is a result of their lack of values‚ which according
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covered by the report include:- Human Resource Planning‚ HRM and the Law‚ Job analysis‚ job design and quality of work‚ recruiting human resources‚ employee selection‚ and human resource development. As a company‚ Wal-Mart is in the business of selling anything that a customer wish to have in everyday life. Wal- Mart is therefore expected to manage its human resource diligently. The report therefore makes in depth analysis of its operations in terms of management of HRM and how it is entangled with
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Problems faced in different countries 1. Slowness to develop a strong presence online. Walmart has become sloppy in executing big changes‚ which is inevitable for an organization. After so many years of such an explosive growth. Case in point is Walmart’s slowness to develop a strong presence online. Despite these fears‚ Walmart’s leaders are optimistic that they can shift the business and position the retailer for long-term success. They are already testing a radical new concept -- downsizing
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