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This 5 page paper looks at the way in which Wal-Mart use a database in their management of inventory along with the way it is complimented with an internet connection with vendors and RFID technology. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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data which needs to be managed. One of the main areas of information management is the inventory management system. Wal-Mart gained at a competitive with its up-to-date inventory management system,
being the first retailer to computerised inventory management and develop an integrated system which EDI 1which placed orders directly with the suppliers when stocks reached a certain level. This is
a strategy which has been emulated by many retailers, and inventory management is an important aspect of ongoing operations. In order to manage this Wal-Mart utilise an Oracle database, the
databases one which meets the needs of Wal-Marts blast operations and the development of new technology with the latest version of Oracle(r) Warehouse Management software being compatible with the radio
frequency identification (RFID), which is being used by Wal-Mart to increase efficiency in its inventory management. The way that the database is used is key to the operating efficiency within
the company. The company uses an Oracle database with a networked infrastructure supplied by Cisco (Cisco, 2006). The Oracle database, which is fully scalable and can cope with the large
size operations dealt with by Wal-Mart and literally hundreds of suppliers and thousands of products is a relational database which can be queried in a number of ways in order
to provide information for different purposes. The system is into links with Wal-Mart own database developed in the 1990s; Retail Linka. The system started out as a dying in
network which facilitated the connections between the retail and the vendors in order to place orders with the vendors. since then with the involvement of Cisco and the setting
up of broadband access to the Internet Retail Linka has become an Internet publication with an underlying Oracle database (Oracle, 2004). The benefit in changing the former database
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