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Physician Practice, Meet Wal-Mart -- Your New Largest Supplier

Physician Practice, Meet Wal-Mart — Your New Largest Supplier

By Jason Busch on October 3, 2011

You’ve got to credit Wal-Mart with finding new markets to drive growth – in this case, in its own back yard. Over on Healthcare Matters , Tom Finn recently penned a piece summarizing and analyzing Wal-Mart’s recent move to tap the gr…

Posted in Business | Tagged Electronic health record, Health care, Physician, Wal-Mart

Walmart -- Investing in Diversity (Women-Owned Businesses, That Is) For the Right Reasons

Walmart — Investing in Diversity (Women-Owned Businesses, That Is) For the Right Reasons

By Jason Busch on September 26, 2011

When supplier diversity becomes simply a whisper down the lane, reporting exercise built around a check-the-box mentality for Federal reporting, it’s pretty clear what the ultimate outcome of such programs will become. Namely, an inter…

Posted in Business | Tagged Business, supplier diversity, supply chain, Wal-Mart

The Walmart Inflation Test (Part 1)

The Walmart Inflation Test (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on November 22, 2010

For all you CPG and food companies in the audience (not to mention manufacturers), it should be no surprise that many producers are beginning to pass along the impacts of commodity price inflation, longer lead-times and in certain…

Posted in Business | Tagged China, CNBC, Commodity, Inflation, Price, Procter & Gamble, Wal-Mart | 3 Responses

Looking Beyond Walmart's CSR Positioning -- The Real Reasons Behind the Drive to Buy Locally

Looking Beyond Walmart’s CSR Positioning — The Real Reasons Behind the Drive to Buy Locally

By Jason Busch on October 18, 2010

Last Friday, Spend Matters opined on a number of total cost and environmental implications of this announcement from Walmart suggesting that the retail giant is going to move towards a greater embrace of local sourcing for fresh p…

Posted in Business | Tagged China, supply chain, Wal-Mart

Best of Intentions -- Wal-Mart and the Challenges of the Greater Local Sourcing Good

Best of Intentions — Wal-Mart and the Challenges of the Greater Local Sourcing Good

By Jason Busch on October 15, 2010

It amazes me the disconnect between strategists and operators at companies that make grandiose statements about one policy or another only to find that such political campaign-like promises are extremely challenging to implement i…

Posted in Business | Tagged supply chain, Wal-Mart | 1 Response

A Captive Call Option: Walmart Makes a One-Sided Sourcing Deal with Li & Fung

A Captive Call Option: Walmart Makes a One-Sided Sourcing Deal with Li & Fung

By Jason Busch on February 11, 2010

You’ve got to admire Walmart for its procurement chutzpah. Or, (staying with the Yiddish theme for a minute), perhaps Walmart’s been more of a chazar in its approach. A colleague introduced me to this phrase, which is loosely translated as “a pig ? a…

Posted in Business | Tagged China, Global sourcing, Li & Fung, private label, Sourcing, Wal-Mart

Walmart Goes Direct and Doubles Down on Direct Savings

Walmart Goes Direct and Doubles Down on Direct Savings

By Jason Busch on January 14, 2010

There’s been plenty of coverage describing Wal-Mart’s new
procurement strategy to avoid middlemen and cut $12 billion in spend in recent
weeks. Surely, savings is a significant motivation behind this recent
action, as it is with anything Wal…

Posted in Business | Tagged cadmium, China, lead, procurement, Retail, Sams Club, Spend Management, supply risk, Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart's Supplier Alliance Program: Selfish or Selfless Supplier Development?

Wal-Mart’s Supplier Alliance Program: Selfish or Selfless Supplier Development?

By Jason Busch on November 30, 2009

Over on Supply Chain Matters, Bob Ferrari recently described how Wal-Mart is putting its supplier development money where its mouth is for apparel suppliers, the group most likely impacted by CIT’s bankruptcy filing (which you can read expert opinion…

Posted in Business | Tagged CIT, Kohl, supply chain, Wal-Mart | 1 Response

Melting Flashlights, Burning Hands - Target's Spooky China Recall

Melting Flashlights, Burning Hands – Target’s Spooky China Recall

By Jason Busch on November 4, 2009

Every month, it seems there’s another large-scale China consumer products recall. Earlier in the fall, it was Wal-Mart. Now it’s my favorite big-box non-warehouse format, Target. The LA Times blog recently reported that “Target has recalled 610,000 H…

Posted in Business | Tagged China, Retail, Target, Wal-Mart

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