Vendor performance scorecards
Where the account stands against Walmart's own measures, before a buyer raises it.
Services / Account Management
Stay ahead of your competition with superior management.
Reporting, replenishment, logistics and item maintenance, run as one account instead of four separate requests.
Maximize your profitability. The line list is long because the account is.
The Net-Vendor Walmart team has fostered productive relationships with the Walmart buying office, the replenishment team and the logistics team. Those three doors are the whole job.
The staff keeps a tight grip on the pulse of Walmart's initiatives and understands the Walmart philosophy, which makes our clients' decisions faster and better informed.
Although the line list is extensive, it does not convey the amount of time and dedication involved in sustaining and expanding a client's Walmart business.
- 01 The Walmart buying office
- 02 The replenishment team
- 03 The logistics team
Get full-service account reporting.
The standing reporting lines we pull from Retail Link, so the state of the account is never a surprise at review time. Ad hoc requests are picked up alongside them.
Item summary, list and rankings
Year to date and last week, ranked, so the movers and the dead weight are both obvious.
Instock position
Store and warehouse instock watched as it moves, not read back after the sale is lost.
Movement and supply
What sold, and what is behind it in the pipeline to cover the weeks after.
MTR activity
Tracked and reported alongside the rest of the account numbers.
Online sales
Walmart.com performance read next to the store numbers, not in a separate silo.
Defectives, markups and markdowns
The three lines that quietly take the margin back out of a good sales week.
Royalty projections
Projected forward wherever a licence or royalty applies to the programme.
Demographic, new item and quarterly VPS analytics
Who is buying, where they are, and how new items land in their first quarters.
Rollback feasibility
Whether a rollback pays for itself, worked out before it is agreed.
TAB sell thru
Sell thru followed on TAB activity, so the programme is judged on what cleared.
Research claim information
Claims researched and evidenced first. The deduction code reference is the starting point.
Retail Link user group meetings
We attend so you do not have to, and bring back what actually changed.
Ad hoc requests
The question the buyer asked this morning, answered with data rather than a guess.
Replenishment
and logistics.
Two connected jobs. One keeps the stores and the warehouses covered. The other gets the freight there without paying more than it should to move it. Both run against the same forecast.
Complete account replenishment management
The daily work inside Retail Link, aimed at one outcome: the right quantity, in the right store, before the customer looks for it.
- Process SSO's for store requests
- Watch warehouse inventory trends weekly
- Manage Walmart forecast accuracy
- Store DD adjustments
- CPFR events (collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment)
- Inventory pipeline analysis to manage GMROII (gross margin return on inventory investment)
- Lead time adjustments
- PO line item deletions
- PO cancel date extensions
- New store instocks
Logistics management
Everything between the factory floor and the store shelf, including the parts of it Walmart measures you on.
- Forecast order replenishment
- Manage inventory levels
- Request shipments from China
- Determine logistics challenges
- Keep Walmart traffic informed on our volume requirements, so shipping lanes stay adequate
- Train warehouse staff on Walmart procedures
- Manage store merchandise transfers and returns
- Research Walmart claimed PO shortages
- Work closely with Walmart TAB logistics, so every store is covered, daily paperwork on shipments is complete, and direct to store shipments are managed
Item maintenance services.
An item set up wrong is wrong in every report after it. This is the small, exact work that keeps the item file, the shelf tag and the online listing telling the same story.
- 01 Item submission forms
- 02 Photo fact tags
- 03 Content template forms for online listings
- 04 Image acquisition
- 05 Processing item changes, including price and item type
All other requests.
Not everything an account needs fits a heading. The requests below land on our desk too, and they get handled rather than queued behind the reporting cycle.
Requests we pick up as they come
- Packaging requirement changes
- MSDS requests for batteries (material safety data sheets)
- Chemical assessment (WERC's)
- Online requests
- Vendor agreement updates, including insurance and returns
Send us the account. We will tell you what we would change first.
Reporting, replenishment, logistics or item maintenance: take one of them off your desk, or all four. You will speak to Jon, not a form queue.