A Winning Strategy: Is Walmart Right To ‘Delayer’? (A Guest Author Post by IACCM’s CEO Tim Cummins)

At first glance, Walmart’s new strategy of ‘delayering the supply chain’ appears to be a reversal of the cost saving device of consolidating spend and reducing the number of suppliers. Are they mimicking others, who are saying ‘if we get rid of the prime contractors, we can get better deals from working with each sub’. […]