Critical Analysis of the Practice in Global Supply Chain Management at a Retailer : Case Study on Wal-Mart

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: B, University of Houston, language: English, abstract: This essay takes a critical look at supply chain management practices at a retailer and uses Wal-Mart as the case study. This is because the retail industry has been among the successful appliers of supply chain management concepts and Wal-Mart has used it strategically in gaining competitive edge against its competitors in the retail store business. It is also widely shown that cooperation among firms is encouraged and supply chains compete rather than firms competing individually. There is a win-win outcome among firms within a given supply chain.