Essay About Companys Supply Chain Management And Obvious Contributing Factors

Kmart
Essay title: Kmart
that Kmarts purported revitalization was a complete failure as the Company was continuing to lose market share to competitors and the Companys purported efforts to reverse this trend were not meeting with success; (b) that the Companys supply chain management was extremely problematic as the Companys distribution centers were outdated and inefficient and the Companys supply chain software was plagued by bugs and glitches, which were causing the Company to experience inventory problems. As a result of these supply chain management issues, the Company was experiencing difficulties routing inventory to stores, thereby negatively impacting the Companys sales. But since competitors Wal-Mart and Target produce better in-stock and inventory turnover numbers thanks in part to their more finely tuned IT systems, Kmart is now under intense pressure to show far greater improvement. Other more obvious contributing factors to Kmarts financial woes include its lack of differentiation and inability to figure out a unique selling proposition to make it stand out from its chief competitors, its aging and underperforming stores, its poor store execution and its store locations. But these are