Case Walmart

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C1 Shrinkage at Walmart
In 2015, the world’s largest retailer, Walmart, announced a quarterly increase
in sales that was accompanied by an increase in expenses that reduced its
hoped-for profit. In discussing the higher expenses, the company mentioned
“shrinkage” three times in its written press release and 13 times in its conference call with financial
analysts.
The company attributed a significant part of its increased shrinkage to
shoplifting and outright theft, including one instance in which a team of thieves
pushed a shopping cart full of electronics out a back door and loaded them into
a waiting car. To combat these problems, which are unfortunately common in
retailing, the company announced it was restarting a training program for
employees that helps them learn how to spot shoplifters and fellow employees
who are pilfering, along with adding staff to areas of the store that contain
high-value or easy-to-steal items. They also plan to start checking customers rereceipts.
In addition to these measures, however, the company also reported that a sizable portion of the
shrinkage results from difficulties encountered in managing inventory flow throughout the company’s
distribution network and its stores. When warehouses and store backrooms become overstocked with
inventory, it can be difficult to determine which items should be discounted
and moved to the store’s shelves. In recent years, Walmart has increased its
sales of grocery and food items, which can be damaged more easily than its
other inventory and for which failure to monitor expiration dates can be costly.
To deal with these backroom inventory management issues, the company has
added employees to staff those areas.
Walmart’s U.S. supply chain includes more than 100 distribution centers from
which the company makes deliveries to its more than 5000 stores and Sam’s
Club locations using its fleet of more than 6000 trucks. Managing the flow of
inventory from the company’s suppliers through its distribution centers and
into its retail outlets is a mammoth task and, as discussed in this chapter, the
company has made attempts to use technology in new and creative ways to
address these challenges in the past.
Required
1. Become familiar with RFID technology and its potential uses in Walmart’s
supply chain using the information presented in this chapter and
information you obtain through the Web Links, your favorite search
engine, and your library. In about 200 words, outline the advantages
Walmart might gain by using RFID in its retail stores. As you draft your
answer, be sure to consider the nature of the stores’ backroom
environments, which include metal shelving. Also consider Walmarts
possible use of RFID and other technologies as an alternative or addition to
the increased staffing levels the company has announced for its backroom
inventory storage areas.
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2. In about 100 words, discuss the technologies that Walmart’s trucking fleet
might use to better manage their operations. Include a discussion of
tracking technologies, GPS devices, and/or apps for use by truck drivers on
their smartphones or tablet devices. 3. In about 100 words, discuss the advantages Walmart might gain if it were
to use RFID tracking technologies in all of its retail stores to manage every
single item as opposed to using either case-level RFID or tracking only part
of each store’s inventory at the item level.

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