This ppt is about the Walmart company, it's leadership, it's founder and about it's operations. The details were taken from the internet. The ppt was prepared as part of the academics.

1. BUSINESS INSIGHT
VENKATESH DAMODHARAN
I-YEAR MBA
SRI KRISHNA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND
TECHNOLOGY

2. FORTUNE 500
An annual list of the 500 largest companies
in the United States as compiled by
FORTUNE magazine that includes both
public and private companies.
The criteria for Fortune 500 list is based on
Revenue
 Exxon Mobil, Wal-Mart, General Electric
and Chevron have reached the top spots on
the list in recent years.
 To be a Fortune 500 company is widely
considered as a mark of prestige.

3. MY CHOICE

4. ABOUT THE COMPANY
 TYPE : PUBLIC
 INDUSTRY : RETAIL
 FOUNDER : SAM WALTON
 CURRENT CEO : DOUG McMILLON
 REVENUE :US$ 485.651 billion
 NO.OF.LOCATIONS :11,532 (July 31, 2015)
 NO.OF.EMPLOYEES : 2.2 MILLION(2015)
 NO.OF.SUBSIDIARIES :13
SLOGAN : “SAVE MONEY.LIVE BETTER”
CONSTITUTES 2% OF TOTALAMERICAN ECONOMY

5. REASONS FOR SELECTION
Leadership of “SAM WALTON”
Ability to give
“EVERYDAY LOW PRICE”

6. SAM WALTON’S TEN
COMMANDMENTS OF BUSINESS
1. Commit to your goal
2. Share your rewards
3. Energize your colleagues
4. Communicate all you know
5. Value your associates
6. Celebrate your success
7. Listen to everyone
8. Deliver more than you promise
9. Work smarter than others
10. Blaze your own path

7. EVERY DAY LOW PRICE
1. Sales volume, scope of operation and
wide customer base
2. Supply chain management
3. Minimization of overhead and operational
costs
4. Leveraging of Its bargaining power to force
suppliers to lower prices

8. SALES VOLUME, SCOPE OF OPERATION
AND WIDE CUSTOMER BASE
 It sells almost everything, and being present
almost everywhere.
 It sells goods through four types of stores:
Discount stores, Wal-Mart Supercenters, Sam's
Club warehouses, and neighborhood markets.
 90% of Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-
Mart store.
 Its large volume of sales enables it to make
substantial profits, even in instances where
individual margins on single items may be
slimmer than those of its competitors.

9. SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
 The goal was to master the art of knowing what it
needed, how much was needed, and when it is needed.
 Deals directly with manufacturers.
 It has the largest private satellite system that enables the
easy transfer of this information among all participants in
its supply chain process.
 Wal-Mart opened stores in small, rural towns first before
entering metropolitan areas. This resulted in lower
operating expenses.

10. MINIMIZATION OF OPERATIONAL COSTS
 Its executives reportedly fly coach and share
hotel rooms with colleagues.
 The company has even been accused of
demanding that hourly workers put in overtime
without pay.

11. LEVERAGING OF ITS BARGAINING POWER
 Many well-known companies rely on Walmart
for more than 20% of their revenue
 Wal-Mart, as the number one supplier-retailer of
most of the consumer goods, wields considerable
power over their bottom line and in fact wields
this power over almost all the consumer goods
industries and they force to give goods at
cheaper prices continuously.

12. CURRENT LEADER
 The current CEO of Wal-Mart is DOUG McMILLON
 CARRER PATH :
 1984 – Summer associate at a Wal-Mart Distribution
Center
 1990 – Began full-time career working at a Wal-Mart
 2006–2009 – President and CEO of Sam's Club
 2010–2013 – President and CEO of Wal-Mart
International
 2013 – CURRENT - CEO of Wal-Mart

13. ACHIEVEMENTS AT SAM’S CLUB
 From 2006 to 2009, McMillan served as
President and CEO of Sam’s Club, an operating
segment of Wal-Mart, with sales of more than
$46 billion annually during his tenure.
 Prior to heading Sam’s Club, McMillan held the
role of Executive Vice President of
merchandising and replenishment and helped
drive the renewed focus on small business
owners.

14. ACHIEVEMENT’S AT WAL-MART INTERNATIONAL
 During McMillan's tenure, Wal-Mart International grew
revenues by more than $50 billion and added nearly
3,000 stores.
 McMillon oversaw acquisitions in markets such as
China, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Central
America
 McMillan also worked to globalize Wal-Mart's “Every
Day Low Prices” strategy and began to implement the
strategy in some of Wal-Mart's International markets

15. Queries

16. EFFORT NEVER DIES