SUPPLY CHAIN TRAINING SUITE PLUS
Immerse yourself in Walmart’s supply chain in this 4-day training course so you hit the ground running. The content is up-to-the-minute, and the teachers are experts in Walmart’s latest methods.
Save $260 by purchasing this suite instead of individual classes.
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You Will Learn
Day One:
Retail Link® Basics
- How to make your way around Retail Link®
- Retail Link® basic navigation
- How the homepage is set up
- The most valuable functions, apps and docs
- How to maximize the Walmart homepage
- The Supplier Performance Scorecard
- The Quick Item Information Report
- The Company Summary Report
- The Store Detail Report
- How to share reports
- Where dotcom reports are located
- How to customize your dashboard
- How to best use its important apps and docs
- How to save time and reduce frustration
- Where to find definitions quickly
- The basics of Retail Link® Decision Support – New
- The elements of building and retrieving a query
- The difference between AND and OR when building a query
- How to use its most important scorecards and reports
- How to get more out of Retail Link® immediately
- How to create and successfully retrieve a query
Day Two:
How to Navigate Walmart’s Supply Chain
- SQEP (Supplier Quality Excellence Program)
- Overview and portal
- Defects, fines, and invoicing
- ASN (Advance Shipment Notification)
- FIXit
- Case markings and labels
- Inner pack
- Meat and poultry cases
- ASN shipping
- Shipping labels LTL
- Shipping labels for cases and pallets
- Types of cases (configurations)
- Hazmat label requirements
- Automated RDCs
- CenterPoint Consolidation
- What you must know about packaging, labeling, shipping
- Requirements for pallets and bagged items shipping to Walmart
- DC types
- Lead Time Audit: When and when not to do one
Day Three:
Forecasting & Replenishment With Retail Link® Data
- Introduction to replenishment
- The Basic/Walmart Information Report
- Reasons for being out of stock
- What influences product demand
- Challenges of demand forecasting
- The replenishment pyramid
- When to create a Consumer ID (CID)
- Components of demand forecasting: mean, trend, seasonality
- Introducing a new item
- The forecasting process
- When to cleanse your history
- Best practices for history start dates
- Best practices for new item location
- Best practices for promotions
- How to create and use the Item 52 Week Forecast Report
- How to create and use the Last 13 Week Sales Next 13 Week Forecast Report
- How to use the Supplier View Instock Tool (SVIT)
- How to create and use the Future Valid Item Store Query
- Plan analysis
- Safety stock
- Allocation calendar
- Lead time
- Best practices for a Lead Time Audit
- Best practices for New Items/New Mods
- Best practices for End of Life (EOL)
- Supplier closings
- Optimization and Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
- Truck load optimization (TLO)
- Supply Plan Item
- Supply Plan Item/DC
- Out of Stock Root Cause Dashboard
- Replenishment overview
- Demand forecast
- Introduction to NOVA
- Fulfillment
- Understanding the significance of:
- How to create and use these reports:
- Working well with Walmart’s replenishment team
Day Four:
OTIF 22 & NOVA
- NEW: NOVA and Revised OTIF Requirements
- Walmart’s goals and expectations
- Details of Arrival Compliance
- Differences between system-generated and manual orders
- Penalties and timing of charges
- Roles and responsibilities for Walmart and for its suppliers
- Why teamwork is important
- How to navigate the Performance page
- How to view POs by line
- How to navigate the Charges page
- Causes for charges on FedEx Small Parcels
- How to report a late or missed pick-up
- Gaining access
- Best practices for entering POs
- How to confirm a PO
- How to mass confirm a group of POs
- Item 52 Week Forecast Report
- Supply Plan by Order Date Report
- Supply Plan by Receive Report
- OTIF Checklist
- Flowchart to fix MABD Issues
- Flowchart to fix Fill Rate Issues
- How to develop an OTIF Action Plan
- How to use the DC Appointment Scheduler
- What it is
- Timeline of its four phases
- List of possible defects
- SQEP Performance Summary
- Overview
- Simple and multiple PO search
- PO creation and maintenance
- Error messages and FAQs
- OTIF Overview
- OTIF Scorecard
- How to schedule a delivery
- E-commerce and OTIF
- Transportation Portal (TSCP)
- How and when to do a Lead Time Audit
- Analyzing your business
- Practical help
- Introduction to SQEP
- NOVA
THIS SUITE IS 4 ALL-DAY CLASSES.
9:00 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M. CENTRAL TIME.
EACH IS A LIVE ZOOM MEETING WITH A MAXIMUM OF 10 PARTICIPANTS/INSTRUCTOR.
PRICE: $2,340
YOU WILL SAVE $260 BY PURCHASING THE SUITE INSTEAD OF INDIVIDUAL CLASSES
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Reviews
It was a great series. Very informative. I really got a lot out of it!
- Rachel - 3/1/22 Director of Sales Operations