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.
Intermediate Retail Link® Bentonville
Date: April 14, 2010
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Facility: 8th & Walton
902B South Walton Blvd., Suite 18
Bentonville, AR 72712
Overview
The Intermediate Retail Link® course is designed to help suppliers get more out of Retail Link®. You will learn how to move beyond the fundamentals and utilize Retail Link® to gain visibility to key aspects of your business. This course will help you develop critical skill sets necessary to accurately answer key business questions. These techniques will help you analyze your business and communicate timely insights to your Buyer or to others within your organization in order to drive sales and profits.
In this course, you will learn:
- Decision Support - Review
- Custom Groups
- Historical Performance
- POS Forecast
- Introduction to SWAS/CWAC
- Preset Reports
- Supply Chain Reliability Expectations
- Retail Link® PO Visibility and Tracking
- Fill Rate and MABD Compliance % Review
- Store Specific Orders
- Business Review Planning
An understanding of basic Retail Link® and working knowledge of Excel is required for this class.
Participants must have authorized access to Retail Link® (ID & Password).
Not applicable to DSD suppliers.
Audience
Not applicable to DSD suppliers.
Schedule
This class is taught from 8:30am to 4:30pm.
Notes
An understanding of Basic Retail Link® is required before taking this course.
Participants will need a laptop with wireless capabilities and authorized access to Retail Link® (ID & Password).


