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Running Head: PROJECT

Project Proposal

Stanley Thompson

MBA 6125

24 April 2016

Summary of the Organization

Wal-Mart is one of the American organizations that operate some chain of hypermarkets, grocery stores, and discount department stores. Sam Walton was the founder of the company. It was founded in 1962, and later incorporated in 1969. Currently Wal-Mart has more than 11,527 stores, as well clubs in more than 27 countries, under some total of 72 banners. It operates mostly in Canada and United States. As such, Wal-Mart has been in existence in more than 54 years. Wal-Mart did start as a single discount store, and it has grown into the largest retailer in the world. It has more 260 million customers that visit their stores. It also employs more than 2.2 million associates. Wal-Mart is quite committed to creating opportunities as well as bringing value to customers and communities around the world.

Candidate Identification Worksheet

#	Process and(Brief) Description	Importance	Scope	Parties Involved	Priority	Overall Impact	Costs if Not Improved
1	Corporate Website	Provides or keeps millions of products online for customers to check on them	general	All parties	Wal-Mart places the website as of high priority	It is the heart of Wal-Mart operations	-
2	Highly-automated distribution centers	It is the foundation of its growth strategy and supply network	More than 40 regional distribution centers for import flow and more than 140 distribution centers for domestic flow	All parties /all stakeholders	High priority	It has a great impact on the organization	-
3	Hub-and-spoke distribution network	This helps to utilize some system of manufacturer storage with customer pickup	6500 dedicated trucks and over 50,000 trailers	All parties	Also high priority	Increases responsiveness and eliminates intermediaries	-

The appropriate candidate from the list is the highly-automated distribution centers. The distribution centers can be evaluated and improved within some relatively short duration.

Brief Description of Highly Automated Distribution Centers

The high automated distribution will be improved in terms of efficiency. The company will have to focus more on improving efficiencies in its truck fleet. A good example will be to provide step tool to the dock loaders. Sustainability will have to be improved also. The change to improve involves opening more Wal-Mart’s distribution networks and increasing the highly automated distribution centers. This will go along in improvement efficiency and reaching out to many more customers.