Walmarts Strategic planning is the managerial process of creating and maintaining a fit between the organizations objectives and resources and the evolving market opportunities.
Save Money. Live Better.
The first of the three initiatives is called Save Money, Live Better. This initiative has a number of components that Wal-Mart is following.- Price Leadership – The Company is well known for its “Every Day Low Pricing”, but Wal-Mart is aiming to give the consumer greater value for each product category. By achieving price leadership Wal-Mart hopes to ward off attempts by other retailers such as Target from gaining market share.
- Consumables – This component is an area where Wal-Mart are looking to reduce outlay. Changes will be made in promotional cadence, seasonal advertising and in store signage.
- Private Label – One area where Wal-Mart can increase revenue is to expand their private label categories. The current economic climate has consumers looking to save money and the value of Wal-Mart’s private label products should be good for the consumer as well as the company.
- Integrated Brand Communication – Although Wal-Mart is looking to reduce the overall number of suppliers and products, the company will be looking to remaining vendors to increase co-branded advertising campaigns.
- Leverage Selling General and Administrative Expenses (SG&A) – The Company can ask suppliers to introduce efficiencies in the transportation of items. This can be the supplier to the distribution center, distribution center to the store and also within the store.
Win. Play. Show.
This initiative sees Wall-Mart optimizing the products in each of its stores. Reducing the number of products, and perhaps reducing the number of overall suppliers, Wal-Mart can encourage suppliers to reduce prices. It also produces an opening for private label products and subsequently increased revenue. With regards to product optimization, the plan is to put each of the product categories into one of three buckets; win, play or show.- Win – This is the top priority categories for Wal-Mart. With these products the company aims to gain market share, be first to market on all new products, lead with price and value, as well as stocking an assortment of items.
- Play – These are strategic categories. Wal-Mart will be aiming to grow these categories, but using a balance growth and profit in the context of overall market performance. Vendors who find themselves with products in this area should be looking to aggressively market to Wal-Mart so that their items are not removed from store shelves.
- Show – This category is where Wal-Mart can reduce the number of products they stock, but not exit the category all together. For example, Wal-Mart has decided to go from four plastic food storage bag brands in its stores to only two. Pactiv Corp.'s Hefty and Clorox's Glad brand products have been removed from store shelves, leaving SC Johnson's Ziploc and Wal-Mart's own Great Value private label the only products to be displayed.
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