Operations Management Within Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart is operating a mass merchandising retail store in all 50 states of the US under a variety of formats, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. as Wal-Mart scores a number of 'tops' in its businesses. It has the largest discount department store chain in the world, largest retail firm in the US and largest retailer in the world, the wealthiest and most powerful corporation in the world. And more recently, Wal-Mart gained the top spot of the most …

…For obvious reasons, this report is presented substantially to relay more evidence of the company's strengths than weaknesses. In fact, to sum it up, if at all there is a perfect, ideal retailer in the world, it has to be Wal-Mart, and including Total Quality Management and continuous improvement is a philosophy of ongoing improvement based around making small changes involving everyone in the operations hierarchy from the top management to the lower level employees.