What is a Fineline?
How Walmart Uses Finelines to Classify Products and Forecast Sales What Is a Fineline? A fineline refers to a group of items within a department that share similar seasonality or sales patterns....
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4-5-4 Calendar
What Is a 4-5-4 Calendar? The 4-5-4 calendar is a tool used by retailers that displays each sales quarter in blocks of 13 whole weeks. The numbers 4-5-4 refer to the number of weeks being compared in...
READ MOREWhat Is Walmart Connect? How to Advertise With Walmart
(Note: Our guest author of this article is Michael Lebhar, CEO of SellCord. To learn more about how SellCord can help your brand excel on Walmart.com, check out their complete package of services.) ...
READ MOREAverage Unit Retail (AUR): Meaning, Importance, & Formula
Suppliers are constantly being challenged to improve their sales performance while keeping supply chain costs low. Walmart sets up performance guidelines for its suppliers through initiatives like...
READ MOREWhat Is a Planogram in Retail? A Supplier’s Guide
With all the advances in home delivery and store pickup, we sometimes forget that in-store shopping is still a powerful strategy in retail sales. Most buying decisions are still made at the shelf,...
READ MOREEDI 850: What It Is and How It’s Used
Each area of retail responsibility succeeds on the same qualification: good communication. For today’s retailers and suppliers, most business communication happens via EDI. EDI (Electronic Data...
READ MOREWalmart OPD (Online Pickup and Delivery): A Quick Guide
As quickly as shopper habits and expectations change, Walmart is constantly evolving to keep up with its customers. Walmart’s innovation goes well beyond the products and services it offers to...
READ MOREWhat Is TI/HI Palleting? Best Practices for Suppliers
Walmart expects suppliers to focus on improving each “link” in their supply chain. From item creation to getting product to its stores on time and in full, Walmart asks suppliers to...
READ MOREWhat Is OGP at Walmart? Meaning and Benefits
The most successful Walmart suppliers have products that are compliant with IOPD. This acronym simply means that a product is available to customers In-store as well as Online. If a customer wants...
READ MOREGlobal Location Number (GLN)
The weakest link in the retail supply chain will always be the same: communication. Human error, wrong information on purchase orders, confused delivery times and locations all cost retailers money....
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