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submit an assessment of the supply and demand of Walmart and its product flow, as discussed in the Walmart China: Supply Chain Transportation case study. You will also evaluate the network sourcing strategy of Walmart to identify areas that may be in need of improvement and will leave room for future expansion.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

Demand Forecasting: In this section, first assess the supply and demand side of Walmart’s product flow, including the customer’s needs and the supplier’s capabilities, in order to then identify potential alignments that will keep cost and waste at a minimum.
A. Evaluation
Analyze Walmart’s suppliers in terms of their abilities to meet the demand of customers during steady‐state and peak operations. How effective are each supplier’s inventory reorder points and economic order quantities? Support your analysis with quantitative examples.
Additionally, describe demand‐forecasting constraints that exist within the supply chain. For example, consider the distance of the stores and the compatibility of the products in terms of shipping, storage, and so on.
Sourcing: In this section, first evaluate the network sourcing strategy of Walmart in order to then identify possible areas in need of improvement that will leave room for future expansion.
A. Evaluation: Assess the current network sourcing strategy and determine whether or not the number and quality of suppliers is the optimal mix for the operation. To what extent do the current suppliers meet steady‐state and peak demand? Are they consistently providing products that meet or exceed Walmart’s quality standards? Defend your assessment with examples.

B. Recommendations
1. Recommend a strategy to optimize the sourcing network that takes into account current operations and leaves room for future

expansion. Be sure to consider any alternative sources of materials available to the organization in your response.

Note: For this milestone, you will complete critical elements II.A, III.A, and III.B.1. As a reminder, you will need to complete additional critical elements (II.B and III.B.2–3) for this part of the final submission of your final project. Keep those elements in mind as you work through this milestone.

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper should be a 3‐ to 4‐page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12‐point Times New Roman font, one‐inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.

Below is the link for the case study…..

https://services.hbsp.harvard.edu/lti/links/content-launch

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action when German troops re-militarizes the Rhineland in 1936 and for historian Ian Kershaw, the allies ‘let slip’ the last chance to stop Hitler and GB’s rearmament programme introduced by Chamberlain in 1936 was significantly behind Germany’s. Appeasement was the result of a belief that peaceful negotiation would bring security for Britain. The controversy stems from the simple fact that Chamberlain failed and Czechoslovakia was abandoned.

In a Parliamentary debate in October 1938 after the Munich Agreement had been signed, Winston Churchill, a strong critic of appeasement, stated ‘All is over, silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness’ highlighting the abandonment of a small state’s independence. Czechoslovakia lost 66 percent of of its coal industry, 70 percent of its iron and steel, and 70 percent of its electrical power, depriving the nation of natural fortifications that left the Czech nation open to complete domination by Germany. The autonomy of Czechoslovakia was sacrificed on the altar for short-term peace because, in the words of President Benes of Czechoslovakia, Sudetenland was ‘a long way from Great Britain and France’ and Germany had achieved what he wanted ‘the domination of Central Europe.’ The swift occupation of Moravia and Bohemia 6 months later and GB’s guarantee to Poland in the hope of making Hitler re-think, failed and war was declared. As early as 1940, the publication of Guilty Men by CATO spurned the policy of appeasement, criticising Chamberlain for ‘cowardice, a lack of wisdom and disregard of the principle of freedom and democracy’ as the expansionism of the Nazi regime and the nature of Nazi rule became all too apparent. Historian R.A.C Parker suggests that Chamberlain manipulated the public opinion to favour appeasement, a view supported by historian, Frank McDonough who argues he “deliberately deceived British public opinion with overly optimistic accounts of the prospects for lasting peace with Germany” and by preventing war over

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