Wal-mart And Home Depot Retail Model Of A Comparative Study

Retail model is business simulation of the retailing company, and retail business development better rely on high degree adaptation of the business environment with retail model. Retailers are at the end of the supply chain, and all segment before the retail are value-added process. The retail industry in the national economy is in more and more important position.In this paper, using case studies approach to the two major U.S. retailers Wal-Mart and Home Depot for the Analysis of the object to explore the retail model is how to adapt their business environment and achieve greater development. Paper selected Home Depot and Wal-Mart because they represent the world's two models of major retail chain - supermarkets and Other Grocery Stores and large-scale professional markets.In order to summarize some of the root causes of these enterprises to achieve competitive advantage, paper extracting and analysis the most important parts from different perspectives of the retail model. It is Including the following sections.1. Based on the function model with the demand for products theoretical, a comparative study of the relationship of the retail product and the customer.2. A comparative study of Wal-Mart and Home Depot for distribution logistics and supply chain management information systems, and analyzed the corporate operations in their business environment.3. Analysis of the Wal-Mart and Home Depot's retail model's external environment -the current consumption in the United States and "Made in China" opportunity.4. The final paper into focus and summed up the Wal-Mart and Home Depot in their business environment, the key competitive advantage, and extended on a competitive advantage for enterprises to provide important support for the external environment combined with China has been the status quo of Our inspiration.Wal-Mart is well-known corporations. The past article just describe on Wal-Mart, but my paper have a certain depth analysis. In addition, domestic enterprises and all the literature publication do not have more systematic analysis of the Home Depot , this section about the Home Depot is the first present.