Wal-Mart Stores Inc for the first time will combine its own buying for products sold at its stores with purchases it makes for its website, sources said, a significant move to stamp out duplicate efforts as it consolidates buying operations to better fight Amazon.com... Wal-Mart has told some vendors it is seeking to make the buying process more efficient for itself and vendors, and improve coordination between its buying teams. It also wants to apply its bricks-and-mortar expertise in securing the lowest possible prices to its e-commerce business, according to the vendors,
Basically Wal-Mart will stop placing separate orders for online and offline channels. There will be one Wal-Mart buy.
Big move. Smart move. Internal procurement-channels will be tough to rewire. Important to long-term competitiveness. Crucial to any really integrated omni-channel strategy. Until now it has been mostly online and offline parallels.
Big move. Smart move. Internal procurement-channels will be tough to rewire. Important to long-term competitiveness. Crucial to any really integrated omni-channel strategy. Until now it has been mostly online and offline parallels.
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