Wal-Mart Storage

Wal-Mart is a quintessential example of a company that leverages storage, facilities and logistic techniques in a fashion that allows them to keep shelves stocked, keep in-demand goods at the ready and the registers in the stores actually do much of the ordering for the store. A summary, a critique and a nominal amount of suggestions on how to improve the logistics and facilities framework in Wal-Mart will be executed in this report. While Wal-Mart does things very quickly and very efficiently, they could and should be doing some minor things better.

Wal-Mart basically has four stages for their goods as they progress any number of ways from arriving at their distribution centers to being sold on the shelves. Speaking of distribution centers, that is the first point of contact that many, but not all, goods have with Wal-Mart. Some vendors work directly and deliver the goods directly...
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