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Supplier development serves customers worldwide

The customer is always No. 1. It's how we end every Wal-Mart cheer and it's the driving force behind our business. This commitment to customers begins with collaboration and the collective work of suppliers who provide invaluable energy, creativity and consumer insights around the world.

However, six years ago our global relationships with suppliers were very different from today. We knew we had an opportunity to improve communications, establish a higher level of trust and more proactively develop joint business plans. We also understood improving these relationships and increasing business visibility with our suppliers would be essential to serving our mutual customers and to establishing a foundation for a future in which global operations were expected to contribute more significantly to Wal-Mart's overall growth.

The result of this thought process was the creation in 2000 of the supplier development group and a set of strategies we believed would help Wal-Mart better serve customers worldwide. Chief among these strategies was closer collaboration with suppliers and the creation of joint business plans that extend well beyond the upcoming year. Joint business planning enables Wal-Mart and our suppliers to align strategies to improve sales, plan key item launches, improve consumer insight and build category captains. We are able to better understand customers shopping our increasingly diverse array of retail formats by sharing in-depth insights and emerging category trends.

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