Welcome to 8th & Walton - the premier destination for Walmart supplier education. Our mission is singular: to offer services and solutions that support organizations of all sizes and from anywhere in the world in their efforts to do business more efficiently and effectively with the world's largest and most important retailer.
Whether you are looking for courses in a city near you, an online course that will allow you to save time and money or custom and private training held at your facility, 8th & Walton can help.
Fundamentals
These courses help you better understand the basics of doing business with Walmart. Whether it's understanding the company's culture or how to analyze the performance of your business, these courses are designed to provide a foundation and help you get up to speed quickly.
Are You Ready for Walmart?
This course provides you with some of the tools you will need to measure your company's readiness to sell to Walmart as well as prepare your presentation for the buyer.
Walmart 101 - Fundamentals
Whether you are on the front lines or in the corner office, a comprehensive understanding of the Walmart way is critical to the success of your organization.
Retail Math & Business Analytics
This course provides a broad understanding of retail finance and its role in the strategic business planning process.
Excel 2003 for Retail Link® Users
Our Excel for Retail Link® Users course helps you analyze Retail Link data quicker and easier.
Advanced Excel - Automating Spreadsheets with Macros
Our Advanced Excel course is exactly what you need to take your Excel skills to the next level and boost your productivity!
Excel 2007 for Retail Link® Users
This course focuses on navigating efficiently through the new user interface in order to manipulate data.
Introduction to Access 2003 for Retail Link® Users
The Introduction to Access for Retail Link® Users course focuses on effectively tracking, reporting, and sharing information.
Advanced Access 2003 for Retail Link® Users
Our Advanced Access for Retail Link® Users course focuses on streamlining the analysis process.
Introduction to Access 2007 for Retail Link® Users
The Introduction to Access 2007 for Retail Link® course focuses on effectively tracking, reporting, and sharing information utilizing the new user interface.
Advanced Access 2007 for Retail Link® Users
This class focuses on streamlining the analysis process utilizing the new user interface, to give you more time to make critical business decisions.
EPC 101 - Understanding the Basics
With Electronic Product Code (EPC) systems being used in Walmart stores and DCs, the importance of learning the ins and outs of this technology is crucial to stay current with Walmart's direction.
Sales & Inventory Analysis
These courses are designed to help you not only understand how to use the tools that Walmart provides you to access data, but also how to use them most effectively to manage and grow your business.
Back to topNavigating Supply Chain Reliability 
Is there such a thing as free money? There is if you learn how to avoid penalties associated with the new Supply Chain Reliability program in place at Walmart and Sam’s Club. Let us help you find free money!
Creating Profitable Rollbacks
In this competitive retail landscape, it is important to understand the specifics of planning, managing and measuring the performance of Rollback promotions at Walmart.
Introduction to Retail Link®
Provides an overview of the system and highlights the basic capabilities of Retail Link®.
Retail Link® for Managers
In this course we review the most important tools that Retail Link® has to offer you as a manager responsible for the Walmart account.
Beginning Retail Link®
This course takes a hands-on approach to providing an overview of the most common functions of Retail Link®
Intermediate Retail Link®
In this course, you will learn how to move beyond the fundamentals and utilize Retail Link® to gain visibility to key aspects of your Walmart business.
Decision Support Decoded
This course is designed to take novice Retail Link® users deep into the realm of Decision Support. Go beyond a simple item detail query to more fully unlock the wealth of data available.
Decision Support Decoded - Part 1 of 2
This 2-day course is designed to take novice Retail Link® users deep into the realm of Decision Support. Go beyond a simple item detail query to more fully unlock the wealth of data available.
Decision Support Decoded - Part 2 of 2
This 2-day course is designed to take novice Retail Link® users deep into the realm of Decision Support. Go beyond a simple item detail query to more fully unlock the wealth of data available.
Planning & Forecasting
The Planning & Forecasting course examines the role of the planner and analyst, as well as provides an understanding of many strategic planning components (seasonality, exit strategies, assortment planning, etc.).
Replenishment & Inventory Management
In this course, you will gain an understanding of how to effectively develop and implement strategies in the area of seasonality, forecasting and inventory management.
Replenishment & Inventory Management - Part 1 of 2
This 2-day course provides the skills necessary to successfully develop inventory strategies.
Replenishment & Inventory Management - Part 2 of 2
This 2-day course provides the skills necessary to successfully develop inventory strategies.
Advanced Retail Link® & Analytics
This course is designed to take seasoned Retail Link® users well beyond the basic functionality and examines highly value-added reporting, analysis and sales/profit producing recommendations.
Intermediate Retail Link® for Apparel Suppliers
Learn how to turn data from Retail Link® into great reports for your apparel buyer and your company, to better manage your business.
“Beyond Reporting” for Apparel and Seasonal Suppliers
Developed specifically for Apparel and Seasonal Goods suppliers, this course will teach you to develop more actionable and impactful recommendations for your Walmart merchandise team.
Perishable Goods Replenishment & Inventory Management 101 (The Basics)
This course helps you gain a fundamental understanding of how to effectively create a manual forecast using sales history, buyer budget, and current inventory while taking into consideration other critical factors.
Perishable Goods Replenishment & Inventory Management 201 (Using Inforem)
In this course you will learn how to effectively communicate with Walmart when implementing strategies in the areas of promotions, seasonality and inventory management.
Accounting, Invoicing & Deductions
Learn how to optimize cash flow through effective use of purchase orders, invoicing information and accounting procedures.
Store of the Community Analysis
Are your products in the right stores? This course will help you identify the demographics of who is purchasing your product, as well as unique store groups and markets within Walmart that are driving your sales.
Retail Link® Study Hall
This is a 1/2 day, hands on, solution-focused class that drills down to exactly what is relevant to you and your business.
Category Management & Shopper Insights
These courses help you navigate the changing environment of Category Management and the movement towards Shopper Insights in the Walmart supplier community.
Back to topShopper Insights Management
Now more than ever, shopper insights research is driving every type of strategic decision making at Walmart. This course provides a road map for thriving in this new and exciting environment.
Strategic Category Management
In this course, you will learn the critical differences that make the value of today's category management irrelevant to the new Walmart as well as the essential tools necessary for driving results through adding the right kind of value.
Introduction to Category Analytics & Reporting
This course will help you create best-in-class analytics and reporting and expose you to the cutting edge in terms of category dashboards, graphical analysis and mapping applications.
Store of the Community Trait Clustering
Learn from the best in the business about clustering using the store of the community traits in Retail Link®.
Leadership Development
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Win-Win Negotiations
Focusing on a mutually beneficial outcome will help you create trusted business partners while building a solid foundation for profit.
Outstanding Presentations
The key to a successful presentation rarely rests on the message itself, but rather the skill with which the message is delivered. Become more compelling and less predictable with this class!
Exceptional Management Skills
Improve your management skill set and have a positive impact on your employee productivity, communication effectiveness and overall profitability.
Building Your Brand Lunch & Learn
What do people think when your name is mentioned? Just like a company, you have an association linked with your name. Learn to create and maintain a positive, professional and trust-worthy reputation for increased sales.
Consultation Selling
Learn how to build and maintain a trusted relationship, resulting in more deals closed at higher margins driving more revenue.
Executive Speaking - Advanced
If strong presentations skills are needed in your position or you just want to be able to deliver a message that others want to hear, Executive Speaking is the next step on your successful career path.
On-Target Media Training
Are you ready to deliver your message at a moment's notice? This class provides you with tools to help you deliver your talking points naturally and conversationally, all while remaining in control and on target.
PowerPoint Excellence
This course gives you all the power you need to excel in your presentation by properly utilizing PowerPoint as an aid, allowing you to deliver an audience-focused presentation.
Customer Service Excellence
Acquiring a new customer can cost 5 - 12 times more than keeping an existing one. Find out how to create and maintain happy and loyal customers while increasing their spending.
Behavioral Styles Lunch & Learn
Identify various personality types within your company to unlock increased production, motivation and understanding.
Lunch & Learn (Bentonville only)
These short, 2 hour courses are deep dives into some of the most essential topics to help you better manage your business with Walmart. Lunch is included!
Back to topCreating Supplier Script Orders (SSOs)
When is the right time to push additional quantities of a product to a selected group of stores? Make educated recommendations to resolve several different issues when you learn more about Script Orders.
PO Tracking
This course will teach you the tools to help you track your merchandise more effectively.
Understanding the Walmart Forecast
This course will introduce participants to the Walmart forecast and the system that develops it. Since the Walmart forecast is what drives orders, it is crucially important.
Excel 2007 - Vlookup and More
This course is designed to help you analyze your data more effectively with dynamic search tools.
Excel 2007 - Pivot Tables and Charts
In this course, you will learn how to analyze small or large datasets with just a few mouse clicks.
Markup/Markdown Analysis
How can you lower MUMD from year to year and make a positive impact on your maintained margin?
Making the Most of the DRA Report
The DRA, or Detailed Replenishment Analysis report is a great tool to identify systemic problems or settings that are causing an item to continually run out of stock.
Planning for New Items
In this course, we will discuss how to most effectively plan for new items to ensure sell thru and an accurate forecast.
Excel 2003 - Pivot Tables and Charts
In this course, you will learn how to analyze small or large datasets with just a few mouse clicks.
Excel 2003 - Vlookup and More
This course is designed to help you analyze your data more effectively with dynamic search tools.
Access Tips and Tricks
In this course, you will learn ways to decrease processing time of large datasets and improve your efficiency.
Social Media for Brands. Step One: Building a Listening Station
What are people on the Web saying about your company, your brand and your competitors? Join us for the first step - creating a listening station - to hear what is being said.
