Case Summary of the corporate management team of Wal-Mart worked inside the “Bentonville Bubble”

The corporate management team of Wal-Mart worked inside the “Bentonville Bubble” that attentive to improve the operational growth, the efficiency as well as profits. While the building of employee’s network, agencies of the government, the sights, suppliers as well as the nonprofits have been widened the largest retailer company around the world currently to green the supply of Walmart. In the paper, the brief information how and why the largest retailer company of the world is using the network technique for minimizing the environmental footprint as well as for bringing the improvements in profitability. The article is telling why Walmart is adopting the eco-friendly products and the processes, how the network approach helps the Walmart go green without increasing costs or spending their profits on increasing the greening effect. The company is working with the network partners to pursue the agenda of the sustainability of the business as well as company is doing extend the managerial abilities through making the business relations with NGOs to design and set the objectives for calculating the performance of the environment, to provide help to suppliers that were invisible to the company for the improvement of the processes as well as accept and use the latest technology, as well as to develop the sources to generate the revenue. Furthermore, the networking method of Walmart is motivating the suppliers for attaining the commits to promote and purchase those products which are classified into eco-friendly products, combines the business with a smaller as well as the cultivates for the long term as the strong relations with the suppliers that put their attention on the innovations environmentally.  

Moreover, the approach of the network of Walmart Company is better than any other approaches because it remains in every condition profitable. Another way of the company is to use the business network to develop the bridge among the nonprofit organizations as well as the suppliers of the company. The company has also begun to make long term commitments to increase the speed of supplies as well as to provide assistance to the farmers for making more transitions. Walmart has introduced new kind of networking which is the business sustainability technique.

1.      Why did Wal-Mart decide to change its environmental strategies?

Walmart focused on the environment as well as wanted to reduce the impacts on the environment. For increasing the sustainability of the environment, Walmart has changed the environmental strategies.

2.      What are some of the potential challenges that Wal-Mart faced as the World's largest retailer?

There are several challenges that Walmart faced as the largest retailer in the world. The very first challenge or problem with Walmart is that its stores have very poor hygiene as well as neatness. Secondly, the main problem is that the company stores have no fast restocking mechanism. Some of the stores have no kind of digital system, and they are fully manual-based stores. The prices of Walmart are not much lower than the competitor’s prices. In the last, the headquarters of Arkansas, as well as Bentonville, requires needs to make better customer service departments.

3.      In your opinion, is Wal-Mart successful in its new retailing strategy?
Explain why and how, and provide some examples.

The company’s new strategy is really good, and it is successful. There are several advantages to the new strategy of Walmart. The new strategy of Walmart did bring improvements in the economy of the company, successfully collect the low the cost products and sell them at the lower prices, high number of the employer as well as by having new strategy, they started additional business to other market segments.