Industry Background Walmart is an American multinational retail corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. ... Using cross docking, products are routed from suppliers to Walmart's warehouses, where they are then shipped to stores without sitting for long periods of time in inventory (University of San Francisco). ... Moving the product from warehouses or manufacturing plants to stores and ultimately to customers is the distribution function of the supply chain. ... Walmart over the time have become able to obtain a market leadership position du...

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