WALMART CASE MGT 360 (3 Pages Words) Case Number 3 A stock analyst is preparing a recommendation on what his firm, a large U.S. investment house, should do with its stake in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Wal-Mart, the worlds largest retailer, was trying to recover from a series of missteps that had seen competitors such as Dollar Stores and close the performance gap. Competitors had copied many aspects of Wal-Marts distribution system, from cross-docking product to eliminate storage time in warehouses, positioning stores around distribution centers, and widespread adoption of electronic data interchange (EDI), to manage ordering and shipping from suppliers. In the 1960s through the 1970s, companies realized strong engineering, design, and manufacturing functions were...