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MBA Presentation Competition - Walmart International Analyst
Thomas Segretain began his internship at Walmart International. He was introduced to various leaders and given opportunities to network. He works on analyzing vendor performance, reporting key performance indicators for sales and inventory, and organizing the global summit. His main projects include becoming an expert on the Retail Link database, building a social platform for the sales team, and supporting local teams with data analysis. He is focusing on gaining technical competency and critical thinking skills during his internship.
MBA Presentation Competition - Walmart International Analyst
- 1. The Diary ofan Intern… Thomas Segretain
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- 5. • Openness • Enthusiasm •Humanism • Proximity
- 6. Danone “Bring health throughfood to as many people as possible.”
- 7. Eli Jones dean ofthe Sam M. Walton College of Business “ You will have the opportunity to network like never before ” “ You want it, go get it ”
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- 9. Ivan Breton Team LeaderLatin America Jamie Hoar Director Walmart International Thomas Segretain Walmart International Analyst Team
- 10. Team Global Summit –Bentonville, June 2013
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- 12. Retail Link • 100,000registered users* • 40,000 companies • 350,000 weekly queries • 583 terabytes of data over 104 weeks • Published case studies reveal that the retailer’s sales increased by more than 40% per SKU as a result of using Retail Link. “Use Retail Link and it will grow your business at Wal-Mart” “The only database in the world larger than Retail Link is the American Intelligence database” * On Friday, October 1, 2010
- 13. Retail Link Thousands ofcriteria among •Sales •All Comp Store Sales •Retail Dollar Inventory •Instock % •Unit Turns •Store # •Margin % •Item # •Markdowns •Fill Rate % •Time frames • 12 countries • Up to 3 CBUs per country • Walmart and Sam’s
- 14. Make new friends Exceland VBA
- 15. What do Ido? Internally • Weekly Scorecard – Vendor performance scorecard • Special requests • KPIs: sales and inventory Externally • Monthly JBP Scorecard • Monthly GBI reports • Ad hoc reports – Quarterly Category report • Yearly Plan
- 16. Main projects Projects done •Global summit organization • Mid year review and top to top meetings • Data alignment and validation Projects to come • Become an expert on Retail Link – Support and training of local teams – Acquire Retail Link usage best practices (RLUG) • Build a social platform for Sales team (DSN)
- 17. Enterprise Information Systems Concentration Productivity MBAOrganization Professional development Perspective Professionalism Connections
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- 20. Contacts • E-mail: tsegretain@walton.uark.edu •Phone: +1 (479) 966-3509 • Twitter: @tsegretain • LinkedIn: thomassegretain • Skype: tsegretain
Editor's Notes
- #3 January 2013 - as part of a part of a 18 month study abroad program I wanted to learn how to do business in the US.
- #4 Orientation week, 1 week after arriving, we had a case competition. We were introduced to all these companies.
- #5 First learning: how a company adapts its offer to enter different markets. Danone vs. Dannon – pronounciation
- #6 Founded in 1919 by Isaac Carasso in Barcelona - Ten years later, the company moved to neighboring France VALUE: Health + International Bring health through food to as many people as possible
- #7 Note: Market adapting = Activia is purple in Argentina.
- #8 Going back to orientation. Dr Eli Jones said at sme point.
- #9 Walmart = biggest retailer in the world & biggest customer for many vendors. International = I’ll get to interact with different coutries Analyst = satify the geek part of me.
- #10 Joke about languages learnings. Jamie would speak English, Ivan would speak Mexican and me French. Chocking to me: small team = reassured…
- #11 I am working with a much bigger team that I actually got to meet.
- #13 I understood how important this tool is to drive the business in WMT. Which is really different than other retailers. BIG DATA. http://www.cognizant.com/InsightsWhitepapers/How-Advanced-Analytics-Will-Inform-and-Transform-US-Retail.pdf h ttp://www.acceleratedanalytics.com/blog/2010/10/1/making-sense-of-retail-link-data.html Quote by Dan Phillips Wal-Mart’s VP of Merchandizing Systems.
- #15 Pretty comfortable wit Excel but it wasn’t enough. Get inside the code = make my life easier.
- #16 Joint Business Planning Global Import Products
- #19 See the data > Identify opportunities > Find solutions Technical competency > excel + sales Communicate > communicate internally, internationally and with Walmart.
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