Wal Mart Organizational Strategy

Its market share is taken up by other firms that sell food stuff while making use of e-commerce for quality service delivery. The performance of Wal-Mart that has seen it breaking through international markets is a feat that can be credited partly to its organizational structure, inter alia a host of other factors. Together, these have come together to greatly determine its business activities, the purpose of this paper is render a brief discussion and analysis of some of the companies practices working in furtherance of its objectives. Organizational Structure The organizational model of the company Walmart can is one that can be described as a hierarchical and functional organizational structure, this type of structure is synonymous with two features, these are the hierarchy and function-based definition.

The first feature as the name denotes serves to mean that the company has a system whereby the authority and decisions emanate from the top, evet employ except the CEO of the company has a superior and commands are run down to the file an rank employees to execute. According to Arli et al. (2013), an efficient and effective supply chain management system and strategy is essential for business survival. Furthermore, it is important to consider customer service, product diversity, and treating employees with dignity. Importing Exporting Any containers carrying imports from the Asia into the United States will typically make it fast pit stop at the importing firm’s import distribution center where these containers will always be unloaded and unpacked before rerouting of their content downstream to the firm’s distribution network.

Firms with limited scale and resources will tend to ship and import their goods through a single distribution center. The company has made efforts at growing its international operations several times more times than its domestic efforts, the reason behind this is simple, to dominate the global retail market. The company acquired some of the poor or weak performing companies, with its wide huge pool of resources, the company is undoubtedly a master with the potential of turning weak players in the new international markets into a powerhouse, by so doing it also generates revenues for itself establishing a foothold in the new market. To get a competitive advantage, Wal-Mart should change their online sales strategy and offer their consumers free shipping upon purchasing goods worth more than $35.