Walmart Case Assignment

TUI UNIVERSITY

Bily Morales

Module 3 Session Long Project

OPM300: Introduction to Operations Management

Dr. Gordon Leichter

September 27, 2010

Wal-Mart has a systematic approach to conducting its operations. It is able to understand the issues and problems to be studied, measures of performances to be established and uses scientific and analytical tools to develop effective and efficient solutions to the problems at hand. Irrespective of the nature of organization and the activities it performs every organization needs to incorporate marketing finance and human resources activities to its operations. This operation process is the conversion process. These four forms the basic functions of any organization and are mutually interactive operations come at the core of every organizational activity and bind the functional areas together. Productivity and efficiency of work is determined by an efficient system of operations. Hence operations forms are very important process of work flow and corporate level strategies must first be made and then translated into operational strategies. Operation management functions encompass product design and development, process design, location and layout of facilities, capacity planning, forecasting, production planning and control, supply chain management, maintenance management and continued improvement in operations.

The strategy of Wal-Mart is to extend its products to every possible household and make every product available to the common man through its wide network of stores all over the USA. The strategy is also to provide empowerment and work to as many people as it can and make the supply chain management a very safe and profitable process. It gets its groceries from unknown and untapped resources thereby making it a virtual assembly house of varied manufactured products.

References List

http://www.bizreport.com/2007/07/walmartcom_launches_product_review_feature.html