SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORKS OF BIG BAZAAR & WALMART

Presented by:

Revathi Nair Kuntika Kotadia Charvi Patel Neelam Patel

(117500592010) (117500592031) (117500592024) (117500592043)

Submitted to: Dr. Hemlata Agarwal & Mr. Hiren Patel S. R. Luthra Institute of Management

INTRODUCTION
A supply chain is the stream of processes of moving goods from the customer order through the raw materials stage, supply, production, and distribution of products to

the customer. All organizations have supply chains of varying degrees, depending
upon the size of the organization and the type of product manufactured. There are six key elements to a supply chain:

Production Supply Inventory Location Transportation, and Information

Supply chain process:

Supplier Distributor/ Wholesaler

Retailer

Customer

Manufacturer

Transporter

WAL-MART
Introduction to Wal-Mart:

Wal-Mart Stores is an American public multinational corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores and a chain of warehouse stores. Wal-Mart has 8,500 stores in 15 countries, with 55 different names.

Walmart remains a family-owned business, as the company is controlled by the Walton family.

Unlike many other retailers, Wal-Mart does not charge a slotting fee to
suppliers for their products to appear in the store. Instead, it focuses on selling more popular products and provides incentives for store managers to

drop unpopular products, as well as asking manufacturers to supply more

popular products.

Supply Chain Management at Wal-Mart

RFID IN WAL-MART AND ITS EFFICIENCY

Wal-Mart had initiated its plan to employ RFID(Radio Frequency

Identification Technology) technology in its supply chain in June 2003.

Wal-Mart tapped RFID technology with an aim to increase the efficiency

of its supply chain. This is because RFID implementation will enhance transparency of their supply chain and hence will help them minimize cost

and labour and will strengthen inventory control.

Aims to reduce the practice of manually placing the order and has

achieved 10% reduction., increasing the suppliers and are trying to

expand regional and domestic implementation of RFID.

BIG BAZAAR

Big Bazaar is the largest hypermarket chain in India was introduced by the Future Group in September 2001, was launched mainly as a fashion format selling apparel, cosmetics, accessories and general merchandise.

Over the years, the retail chain has included in its portfolio a wide range of products
and services, ranging from grocery to electronics designed as an agglomeration of bazaars.

As of June 2, 2012 there are 214 stores across 90 cities and towns in India. They also
signed a deal with Cognizant Technology Solutions for the development of an IT infrastructure, encompassing Future Groups entire network of stores, warehousing and data centres.

They also partnered with Disney to launch "Kidz Cookies", exclusively for kids across India further planning to add value to its retail services by offering Value added services like grinding, de-seeding, vegetables cutting at free of cost.

STRATEGY FOLLOWED BY BIG BAZAAR

3-C theory Change and Confidence among the entire

population is leading to rise in Consumption,

through better employment and income which in

turn is creating value to the agricultural products across the country.

PRODUCT MIX
Apparels Food Farm products Chill station Home & personal care Electronic bazaar Fashion & jewellery Furniture bazaar Child care & toys

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BOTH STORES

Walmart Big Bazaar

Cross docking DC at various places RFID Satellite communications

SKU Tie-up with bank Cognizant Technology Solutions

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