E-Commerce and Globalization at Walmart

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E-Commerce and Globalization at Walmart
In recent years, e-commerce has become more and more common in the world of business as many organizations, like Walmart Inc., are choosing to use it as a complementary part of operations. Accordingly, the following discussion provides responses to three related and important questions that concern: 1) how e-commerce is applied by Walmart Inc., 2) how e-commerce might provide competitive advantage for Walmart, and 3) whether I can relate what I have learned in this module to the function of e-commerce at Walmart, specifically with respect to IBM chairman Louis Gerstner’s comment that e-commerce is "all about cycle time, speed, globalization, enhanced productivity, reaching new customers, and sharing...

.....ess. Walmart, that is, can bring extraordinary cost savings for customers while also providing speedy and reliable delivery of quality products all over the world.
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