Management Information Systems: Interconnected Business Units of Walmart

Management
Information Systems

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
QUESTION 1...................................................................................................................................3
Describe how the business units of Walmart are interconnected...........................................3
QUESTION 2...................................................................................................................................5
Different forms of data & the role or responsibility of data warehousing in Walmart..........5
QUESTION 3...................................................................................................................................8
Summary of key concerns about ethical, legal and professional implications associated with
information handling and security..........................................................................................8
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Management Information systems (MIS)is the use of people, information technology
which is helpful to store, process the data so that the management of a company can use it to
make their daily decisions. The main aim of management information systems is that they take
the information from different sources and gains the insights from it which is useful for the
growth of a business(Vom Brocke and Mendling, 2018). The use of MIS is to help the top
management of a company to make the decisions which is useful for the completion of business
objectives and it cannot be done without the help of MIS. The Management Information systems
is the type of internal controls of a business which covers the people, documents which helps in
solving the business problems such as the cost of product and the strategy of a business. The
main aim of the MIS system is that it helps in providing the information to each level of
management or the departments which carries out the work on the basis of results which is given
out by the management information systems. Walmart is a retail corporation which works in
accordance with the hypermarkets, departmental stores, and the grocery stores. This was founded
in the year 1962 and is having its headquarters in Arkansas, U.S. This report will cover
information needs within different functional areas, comparison of information systems, legal
implications associated with information handling and security and ethical implications related
with information handling and security.
QUESTION 1
Describe how the business units of Walmart are interconnected
Walmart has made a very significant growth in which they make the turning of their retail
company towards the supermarket chain which is having around 11,500 stores which covers the
hypermarkets, supermarkets and the departmental stores. They gives the employment of around
lakhs of people and they customers they serve is of around millions. The company Walmart
makes the earning is billions and is considered to be the highest earning company in the world by
revenue in which it covers the capital of around 500 billion dollars.

The main aim of Walmart is to lead the market with the prices and to make the
investment in different things which is competitive and is delivering the product on the aim of
EDLP which is of every day low prices(Nurakun Kyzy, Ismailova and Dündar, 2018). The main
commitment of Walmart is to make the control on the expenses which they are paying off and
making the investment on the production of a production. Walmart uses the omnichannel in
which they help the customer in providing the products in a varied form and also in many
locations which is in US and the other markets outside the country.
Their are different business units of Walmart which are interconnected with one another-
 Walmart discount store- The Walmart discount store is the discount departmental store
which differs in the sizes that covers the 30,000 to 221,000 square feet of area. Many of
the stores of discount store offers the groceries, garden centre and general merchandise
items. For the Walmart the discount stores were the main and original concept which has
been changed into the super centres. In the year 1990, the Walmart opened its first Bud's
Discount city location is in Bentonville in which many of its locations were opened to for
the lease.
 Walmart supercenter- This is similar to that of hypermarkets which varies in the size of
69,000 to 260,000 square feet. The super centres provides the product of baked goods,
frozen foods, dairy products, fresh seafood and many others. But in some of the Walmart
supercenter they have a garden center, pharmacy, Tire and lube express and many other
things. In many of the Walmart supercenter they have decided to feature the Mcdonald's
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