Supply Chain Management of Woolworths and Wal-Mart Corporation

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Executive summary
Supply chain is considered significant for the organization to gain the competitive advantage; the
companies use several strategies to manage the supply chain efficiently. In this report two
organization that is Woolworths and Wal-Mart Corporation is selected as well as various articles
are reviewed. The purpose of the report is to find out the existing supply chain o Woolworths and
Wal-Mart as well as provide recommendations for improvement. From the analysis it finds that
several models adopted by both organization and still finds problem in the supply chain
management. However, for this organization can raise the transparency of supply chain and also
focus on segmenting the products, suppliers etc.

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Table of Contents
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................3
Woolworths Supermarket................................................................................................................3
WalMart...........................................................................................................................................4
Similarities and differences in supply chain and logistic goals.......................................................4
Similarities...................................................................................................................................4
Differences...................................................................................................................................4
Literature review..............................................................................................................................5
Supply chain of Woolworths...........................................................................................................6
Recommendations........................................................................................................................8
Supply chain of WalMart.................................................................................................................8
Recommendations......................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................12

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Part-A
Introduction
A supply chain is the network of all the individuals, organizations, resources, activities and
technology involved in the creation and sale of a product, from the delivery of source materials
from the supplier to the manufacturer, through to its eventual delivery to the end user
(Christopher, 2016). In this report, the supply chain of Woolworth’s supermarket and Wal-
Mart is discussed, the similarities and differences between the supply chains of both the
organization is also discussed. In this, the recommendations are also provided for improving the
supply chain in both organizations.
Woolworths Supermarket
Woolworths Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket/grocery store chain owned
by Woolworths Group. The company was founded in the year 1924; the specialization of the
company is in offering the groceries such as meat, fruit. The segmentation of the company
expanded in seven areas that are Woolworths clothing as well as general merchandise such as
clothing, house ware and beauty as well as various products of lifestyle. The company has
subsidiary of Woolworths food, logistics, it also contain Witchery group for the departmental
stores of clothes retailer (Nursey-Bray et al., 2016). Woolworths targeted mainly to the high
income consumer type and the living standard measure group eight to ten. In the year 2016, the
top suppliers of Woolworths were Teys Australia, supply chain solution contributor and the red
meat. However, for the effective implementation of supply chain, the company deploys their
business 2 business platform of integration; this is done to offer real time addition to their
systems of suppliers (Xu et al., 2017). This platform controls the AS2 protocol designed for
business to business communications; this is designed for the fulfillment of automated order
among businesses through the usage of internet. The company chooses the SPS commerce, for
the condition of business 2 business integrating with the community of their supplier. However,
the company used the centralized model of distribution for the supply chain.