1.1 Where did Wal-Mart’s success come from?
1.2 The Key to ALWAYS Low Prices
2. MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN WAL-MART
2.1 A Brief overview of Wal-Mart information systems
2.2 Retail Link
2.3 RFID
3. CONCLUSION
4. REFERENCE
1.2 THE KEY TO ALWAYS LOW PRICES
With 5500 store to supply with goods, Wal-Mart became the biggest delivering business in the U.S. You cannot drive on a US a highway for more than 20miles without seeing a Wal-Mart truck.
Optimizing such vast operations can only be done with extensive use of Information Technology (IT). IT enabled Wal-Mart’s success.
Wal-Mart is very secretive about their data warehouse. After achieving a major milestone Teradata, Wal-Mart’s data warehouse suppliers, was given permission to announce a few shallow facts about Wal-Mart’s data warehouse.
• Wal-Mart has indeed the world’s largest, non military, database with a size of one-half a petabyte.
• It is the world’s largest data warehouse
• http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6073/is_1_9/ai_n29362883/?tag=content;col1
• The Wal-Mart Effect : How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works–and How It’s Transforming the American Economy by Charles Fishman
• http://www.scribd.com

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