Walmart

Wal-Mart seems to be pushing much of the cost of its environmental initiatives down to
its suppliers. Is this ethical? Explain.
Ans. Yes, this is Ethical.
Ambitious supply chain sustainability of Wal-Mart initiatives have the possible to overhaul
the way products are sourced & sold. It was in year 2005 when Wal-Mart initially built a
public commitment to turn into a more environmentally sustainable firm announcing a new
approach named Sustainability 360, that includes finding ways to reduce the own
environmental impact of a company as well as engaging employees, suppliers, or associates
as Wal-Mart identifies them and consumers around the world to cut down their environmental
impact.
The company began out with identifying & reducing the environmental effect of its direct

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Case:  Wal-Mart China: Sustainable Operations Strategy

1. Why do customers patronize Wal-Mart China stores? What does sustainability mean to them and how important is it?
2. How should sustainability be incorporated in vendor selection and evaluation? How could vendors be encouraged to participate in Wal-Mart China’s sustainability initiatives?
3. What are the distinguishing features of Wal-Mart China’s distribution system? How does it achieve relatively high availability with similar levels of stock (weeks’ cover) to other companies??

Assignment Case: Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Strategy.  Your team write-up should directly answer the following questions.  No need to provide an introduction or executive summary.      

1. Given the fact that Wal-Mart’s customers generally are unwilling to pay a premium for environmentally friendly products, how is the company deriving business value from its sustainability strategy, or, if not, how can it ensure that it does?
2. Imagine that you are Andy Reuben or Tyler Elm, evaluating the progress of the electronics, seafood, and textiles networks.  Which networks have been most successful?  What factors explain the successes (or lack of successes) of these networks?
3. How is Wal-Mart motivating its suppliers to share information about and continuously reduce the environmental impacts of products and processes?  How can the company stimulate the development of breakthrough innovations?
4. Propose one new “game changer” or “innovation project” not described in the case (or in the Wal-Mart China case), for any of the networks.  To support your proposal, outline the environmental benefits, the profit opportunity for Wal-Mart, the greatest challenges to implementation, and how Wal-Mart could overcome them.  Please be prepared to present your project in 2 minutes to the class (please email me a single ppt slide of your project before class).
5. As evidenced in Exhibit 12, Wal-Mart’s sustainability strategy has generally been very profitable. However, two initiatives described in the case benefit the society and the environment, but apparently decrease Wal-Mart’s profits.  Identify those two initiatives, and imagine that you are their internal champion.  How would you justify pursuing those initiatives?  

1.Given the fact that Wal-Mart’s customers generally are unwilling to pay a premium for environmentally friendly products, how is the company deriving business value from its sustainability strategy?