This is our Principle of practices and management presentation which we gave in our pgdm program at srms ibs, lucknow. i would like to thnk our professor ekta mam and my group members

2. GROUP 9 GROUP 10
 Ravindra Kumar  Yatish Mittal
 Rahul Singh  Arun Joshi
 Gaurav Kumar  Amit Yadav
 Manish Kumar  Rajnish Kumar
 Sumit Kumar  Sudhir Kumar
 Rahul Chawla  Vikrant Arora

3. INTRODUCTION
Walmart store inc. the largest retailer and
the largest company in terms of revenue.
Sam Walton ,the founder of Wal-Mart,
opened the first Wal-Mart store in Rogers,
Arkansas in 1962. The company is publicly
traded at the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol WMT and has
its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas.

4. "The secret of successful retailing is to give your
customers what they want. And really, if you think
about it from your point of view as a customer,
you want everything: a wide assortment of good-
quality merchandise; the lowest possible prices;
guaranteed satisfaction with what you buy;
friendly, knowledgeable service; convenient
hours; free parking; a pleasant shopping
experience."
- Sam Walton (1918-1992)

5. LOGOS OF WALMART

7. FEATURES OF WALMART
 Merchandise
 Feeling of family for the employees
 Operating division

8. BACKGROUND
 Started on 2nd July 1962 in Rogers,
Arkansas.
 Expansion of company
 Listing in stock exchange
 Launch of supercenter concept

9. BACKGROUND
 Home delivery services
 Focus of the company
 Cost cutting concept

10. PLANNING : SMALL TOWNS TO A GLOBAL
STRATEGY
 Traditional stores and Supercentre
 Supercentre stock everything
 Many Wal Mart Supercentre also have a
Garden Centre, Pet Shop, Pharmacy, Tire
and Lubricants, Optical Centre, Photo
processing lab etc
 By the early 1990s Wal Mart has Gone
international

11. PLANNING : SMALL TOWNS TO A GLOBAL
STRATEGY
 Clubs and Stores are world wide
 Wal Mart’s international operations currently
comprise 4263 stores and 660,000 workers
in 15 countries outside the U.S
 Known for its Brand Strategy
 Hub and Spoke Distribution System

12. ORIGINATION STRUCTURE
 Information system is centralized
 Operation is decentralized
 Meetings provides opportunity for
customer feedback
 Origination is based on 3 basic values
 Respect for the individual
 Service to the customers
 Striving for excellence

13. HUMAN RELATION MANAGEMENT
 Employee advancement programs
 Campus recruitment
 Good retention rate
 Training and Development
 Sams suggestion system

14. LEADERSHIP
 Personal leadership
 Experimenting
 Valuing team work
 Delegate responsibility
 resilience

15. CONTROLLING
 Modern technology and inventory system
 Relationship with supplier
 Customer controlling

16. GLOBAL CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE
 Weakest overseas business in Germany
 Cut throat competition in China
 Failure in influencing the Chinese customers

18. STRENGTH
 Walmart is powerful retail plant
 Walmart has grown substantially over
recently year, and has experience global
expansion
 The company has a core competency
involving its user of IT to support its
international logistics system
 A focus strategy in place for HRM and
development

19. WEAKNESS
 The corporate is huge but still has presence
in 14 countries
 Customers sometimes are curious about the
quality of products
 Keep poor performance employee on hand
 The market share is low outside the US
market
 Supplies profit margin is very low

20. OPPORTUNITY
 Take over , merge with , or form alliances
with global retailers focusing on specific
market such as Europe or China
 Due to recession in 2008-09 the purchasing
power of customers is reduce
 Market development untapped market
specially.

21. THREATS
 Being leader it faces a lot of competition
 Poor human relation
 Effect on local retailers.

23. Can Walmart adopt same strategies in other
countries like U.S
NO
Difficulties of Walmart :-
• Hire a large no. of employees
• Demand of urban people
• Appropriate pricing
• Organization culture

24. Can organization be copied to other countries
from U.S
YES
Changes suggested :-
 Change in organization culture
 Pricing strategy

25. Could competitors copy the inventory system of
Walmart
 Walmart uses SMART inventory system , it
keeps tracks of all the stock of Walmart and
can automatically order the product which is
out of stock.
NO other companies cannot copy their
system because Walmart had ordered that
software specially for them and they
patented them.

26. Would you like to be a manager of walmart
 A bigger brand of world wide
 Comprehensive training program for all types
of associates
 Company use to offers generous financial
rewards for their associates
 Offers good salary package to its managers.

27. What should walmart to be successful in other
countries
 GLOCAL
 Joint ventures
 Improving their efforts

28. How can walmart control the global enterprise
Walmart operations are organised into three
divisions :-
 Walmart stores US
 SAM’s club
 Walmart international