Walmart's Use of Technology for a Competitive Advantage
one part of that, and Wal-Mart has long been a leader at total supply chain management as a means of extracting competitive advantage. As an example, a few years ago Wal-Mart was an early adopter of RFID technology, which allows for tracking of goods in real time. By tracking in real time, using radio frequencies, Wal-Mart was able to not only know where goods are to help route them better, but the company is able to gather a lot of data about the movement of goods through its supply chain, and then use this data to make the supply chain more efficient (Kosasi,… Continue Reading...