START STRONG SUITE
Ideal for the new Walmart supplier!
In six days, you will learn Retail Link®, Walmart Luminate™, Supplier One, Walmart’s supply chain, and how to create reports and uncover valuable findings.
Save $468 when you purchase the suite instead of individual classes.
New to your job? You can become productive immediately.
Learn Retail Link®, Walmart Luminate™, and supply chain in depth — from experts with decades of experience as Walmart suppliers themselves.
Learn how to navigate Retail Link®, create and interpret queries, and organize your time for maximum productivity.
Learn Luminate™ navigation, its headings, and how to build its reports.
Learn how to navigate Supplier One, make the most of its programs, and build its reports.
Learn how to get the right amount of inventory in the right place at the right time. SQEP, ITIF, ASN, packaging — you’ll learn all this and more.
Because these are live interactive Zoom classes, your questions are answered as they occur — so you end each session with greater mastery and more confidence.
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- DON’t wait for a busy colleague to find time to teach you.
- DON’T learn your job piecemeal with no sense of the big picture.
- DON’T learn Walmart’s procedures blindly, not knowing the reasons behind them.
- DON’T learn outdated procedures that invite errors and lead to penalties.
- DO learn immediately and accurately what you need to know to succeed.It’s all in 8th & Walton’s START STRONG SUITE!
Who should take this training: One-man-bands, those new to Walmart or supply chain, managers in small or mid-size supplier businesses.
NOTES:
Content for these classes is revised frequently — whenever changes or updates occur.
NOTE FOR NEW WALMART SUPPLIERS: In order to produce valid reports, your company should be shipping to Walmart prior to taking this class. Since our classes do not use dummy data, if you are not shipping to Walmart, you will have no data with which to produce reports.
8th & Walton classes are exclusively for Walmart suppliers; only a supplier who works directly with Walmart may register.
If you are a broker interested in our Retail Link® classes, email [email protected].
You Will Learn
Day One:
Introduction to Retail Link®, Luminate™, Supplier One
You’ll learn how to make your way around Retail Link®, use its most important scorecards and reports, and get more out of it immediately. You’ll learn its key apps — SQEP, NOVE, FIXit, Aspen, TSCP — and meet Luminate™ and Supplier One.
Day Two:
How to Use Luminate™ Basic
Dive into Walmart Luminate™ and have an expert with decades of Walmart experience as your guide so you learn faster and avoid errors and frustration. You’ll learn how to build reports in Luminate™ and walk away with recipes for nine of the most important of them.
Day Three:
Supplier One
Learn how to use this new portal, recently launched in Retail Link®. Mastering it will save you time, and being taught by an expert lets you avoid errors. Items and inventory, order management, payments and charges — you’ll learn all this an more in one morning.
Day Four:
How to Navigate Walmart’s Supply Chain
SQEP and defects, fines, and invoicing; ASN shipping (Advance Ship Notification); FIXit; packaging, labeling, and shipping; requirements for pallets and bagged items when shipping to Walmart; DC types; when/when not to do a Lead Time Audit, Freight Factor, how to find the root cause of out of stocks, TSCP.
Day Five:
Forecasting & Replenishment
Replenishment overview; demand forecast; fulfillment best practices; Optimization and Economic Order Quantity (EOQ); truck load optimization; how to work well with Walmart’s replenishment team; how to create and use these reports: Supply Plan Item, Supply Plan Item/DC, and Out of Stock Root Cause Dashboard; introduction to NOVA.
Day Six:
OTIF
Walmart’s goals and expectations regarding OTIF; the details of arrival compliance; difference between system-generated and manual orders; penalties and timing of charges; roles and responsibilities for Walmart and for suppliers; OTIF Scorecard and three valuable reports; e-commerce and OTIF; TSCP; OTIF Checklist and OTIF Action Plan; flowcharts to fix MABD and Fill Rate Issues.
THIS SUITE IS 6 CLASSES.
EACH IS A LIVE ZOOM MEETING WITH A MAXIMUM OF 10 PARTICIPANTS/INSTRUCTOR.
DAYS ONE, TWO, THREE, AND FIVE RUN 9:00 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M. CENTRAL TIME.
DAY FOUR RUNS 9:00 A.M. TO 12:30 P.M. CENTRAL TIME, AND DAY SIX RUNS 9:00 A.M. TO 1:00 P.M. CENTRAL TIME.
CONTACT US IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR WISH TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR CLASS DATES.
PRICE: $3,510
YOU WILL SAVE $390 BY PURCHASING THE SUITE INSTEAD OF INDIVIDUAL CLASSES
Registration closes at 3 P.M. Central Time on the last business day prior to the first class in the suite. Please register using your supplier email address.
Meet Your Teachers
Lori Carter has had a remarkable breadth of experience in her 28 year retail career. It began at Walmart and Sam’s Club where she became a Retail Link® analyst and replenishment specialist. As a supplier and working on behalf of suppliers, Lori has managed e-commerce accounts, analyzed data, improved OTIF scores and resolved transportation issues. Lori also serves as an administrator of the Walmart Supplier Support Group on FaceBook. Here she answers suppliers’ questions, an experience that has given her a deep understanding of the current needs of the Walmart supplier.
Heather Reid worked for Walmart Canada for 22 years prior to joining Canada’s 8th & Walton in 2016. While at Walmart, she organized and facilitated its Retail Link® and various system-training programs for both internal and external Walmart customers. She also facilitated a four-day supplier training session on a bi-weekly basis, teaching over 2,000 suppliers. She has a vast knowledge of Replenishment (GRS) and is an expert in Retail Link®, in Luminate™, and in Accounting (for both Walmart Canada and Walmart US). In addition to her deep knowledge of retail systems, Heather is an extraordinary teacher. She holds a diploma in Human Resources, Marketing, and Accounting and has held the Canadian Human Resource Leader (CHRL) designation.
Joel Graham is a seasoned leader with 34 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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