ITEM MANAGEMENT 2:
HOW TO CREATE ITEMS
Learn how to create an item under the guidance of an expert with years of Walmart item creation experience who understands what today’s item management process requires of suppliers.
Get hands-on training for item creation, starting with how to navigate 1 World Sync. In this Walmart item management class, you will learn the differences between Each, Case, Pack and Pallet and the nuances of each. Discover the steps you must follow when linking, validating, and publishing an item. Simply put, learn everything you need to know to create an item correctly.
Who should take this class:
Those new to item creation, those doing hands-on item creation, product managers.
You Will Learn
How to use Item Set Up to create items
- Overview of item management and recent changes
- Its dashboard and navigational page
- Examples of error messages
- How to complete spec forms properly
- Requirements for both child and parent assortment items
- Tips for uploading spreadsheets
- Common problems and their solutions
How to —
- Propose new items
- Build Multibox items (dotcom only)
- Build single items
- Build mass items
- Build shipper items
- Build DSV items
- Make an assortment to synch with GDSN
- Make an assortment not to be synched with GDSN
- Make a variant group
THIS CLASS RUNS 9:00 A.M. TO NOON CENTRAL TIME.
IT IS A LIVE ZOOM MEETING WITH A MAXIMUM OF 10 PARTICIPANTS/INSTRUCTOR.
PRICE: $650
SAVE 10% WHEN YOU PURCHASE 3 CLASSES AT ONE TIME.
Registration closes at 3 P.M. Central Time on the last business day prior to the class. Please use your supplier email address to register.
Meet Your Teachers
Joel Graham is a seasoned leader with 37 years of retail experience, 28 of them with Walmart and Sam’s Club. He led the Sam’s Club UPC/Item File Team for 10 years and worked in Walmart’s buying, replenishment, and operations areas as well as in its frozen, candy, HBA, OTC, pets, and dry grocery categories. An expert facilitator and advisor with over 15 years of presentation experience, Joel’s specialties include item file creation and management; packaging; accounting; compliance, including WERCS and factory disclosure; GTIN/GS1/Data Sync/GDSN; and all aspects of Retail Link®, DSS reporting, supply chain, and e-commerce.
Requirements and Notes
- Each student must register; one participant per registration.
- NOTE FOR NEW WALMART SUPPLIERS: In order to produce valid reports, your company should be shipping to Walmart prior to taking this class.
- During this class, no data is shared, confidentiality is maintained throughout, and proprietary materials of Walmart’s are not distributed.
- Content for this class is revised frequently — whenever changes or updates occur.
- Suppliers should have access to Luminate™ and should know Excel before registering for this seminar.
- Prior to class, you will be sent a Supplement with information pertinent to your class.
- Within three days after your class, you will receive a Certificate of Completion in your email. Many suppliers post this on LinkedIn because it keeps a profile fresh and exciting as well as up-to-date.
- 8th & Walton classes and seminars are exclusively for Walmart suppliers; only a supplier who works directly with Walmart may register.
- With its goal of improving content and presentation, 8th & Walton records each class. This is used strictly for its own edification and then only on an as needed basis. The recordings are not shared outside 8th & Walton. 8th & Walton always treats the privacy of its students, any comments students may make during class, and Walmart’s proprietary information with utmost respect.
- Students are not allowed to record using a note-taker. 8th & Walton values the privacy of its students and adheres to confidentiality always. We also honor proprietary information from Walmart. Furthermore, class materials are written and copyrighted by 8th & Walton, and recording them is an infringement of copyright laws.
- 8th & Walton, LLC, Bentonville, AR is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Walmart or its affiliates. All references to Walmart, as well as its affiliates, trademarks, and brands, are not intended to imply that 8th & Walton LLC is a Walmart vehicle for advertising or any other commercial purposes. Retail Link® and Walmart Luminate™ are registered trademarks of Walmart.
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$650