A WAL*MART AND SAMS CLUB SUCCESS STRATEGY: BST has built its success with Wal*Mart Stores, Inc. by committing to build the best supplier support team possible, carefully aligned with the specific goals and objectives of the supplier.
This support can mean a different approach based on different suppliers needs. With an intensely focused TEAM approach, (TEAM meaning your company and ours), BST is able to provide SUPPLIERS with the most complete and professional support available.
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• David Fitch: Bentonville Support - Team Leader
David has accumulated over 23 years of experience selling Wal*Mart Stores, Inc. He has an extensive sales, marketing and management background supplying not only giants like Wal*Mart, but many of the largest retailers in the USA. His vendor experience with Wal*Mart began in 1985 as a National Sales and Marketing Manager initiating new business at both Wal*Mart and SAMS.
With an ever growing business at Wal*Mart, David moved to Bentonville, AR in 1989 to be closer to Wal*Mart's corporate offices and its buying core.
David's experience, key contacts and unique knowledge working with the many merchandising departments at Wal*Mart and SAM’S Club along with incorporating our expertise with Wal*Mart’s proprietary Retail Link system for suppliers, is crucial to a manufacturer’s success.
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Bentonville Support Team Staff: WM & SAMS CLUB is our ENTIRE FOCUS 100% of the time.
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We are your company's local office and experienced staff to the World's Largest Retailer:
The Bentonville Support Team consists of dedicated and committed individuals who have many years of experience in successfully assisting suppliers build vendor solutions within both WM's and SAMS CLUBS. The focus is always on driving increased $$ volume and working within the Retail Link framework to build a supplier's performance profile geared at expanding product opportunities with increased sku count, promotions and TABS.
We work very closely with WM and SAMS CLUB's teams interfacing closely with buyers, assistants, order specialists, replenishment managers, and product development, to establish a positive and proactive relationship by providing solutions to the many challenges associated with building, maintaining, and expanding business.
- Gaining sku positions within WM and SAMS CLUB can be an especially difficult task considering the best of the best of all suppliers in a category are competing for some of the very same space, but managing that business for the long term can present much larger challenges while navigating the complex systems and network within WM's corporate structure.
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- We take the complex and difficult challeges when working with WM and SAMS CLUB and translate it into manageable solutions geared for continued success and growth. Our team is dedicated to working closely with a very limited number of select suppliers, collaborating with all teams to meet and exceed your goals.
Our commitment to our supplier partners is to conduct all business activity with professionalism and integrity and to apply our cumulative years of experience to achieve sustained sales growth with a specialized and focused WM marketing effort.
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• Our Combined Team Efforts – Expertise
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Conducting Wal*Mart and SAMS Club business is very much a TEAM EFFORT. A critical component of BST’s success is our Wal*Mart & SAMS Club expertise along with your industry’s product and category expertise.
Together, our combined knowledge and planning provide an impressive array of strategy and execution. Working together as a TEAM, enables us to address specific opportunities and challenges efficiently and effectively.
The very best and most successful suppliers at Wal*Mart & SAMS Club have embraced and employed the very best teams. Our services and infrastructure are continually modified and refined in response to, and in anticipation of changes, ensuring that your goals and objectives are surpassed.
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• Retail Link Analysis and Support
We provide experienced and proven Retail Link expertise with analysts that have the necessary education and experience needed for logistics, forecasting, planning, replenishment, and sales analysis. Wal*Mart is very serious about their business and the partnerships they develop with their suppliers.
A good supplier’s ability to MANAGE YOUR BUSINESS is invaluable above and beyond the products you produce. Managing your: In-stock expectations of 98.5%, forecasting accuracy, order fill-rates, MABD compliance, and much more is critical to your initial and continued success. Wal*Mart tends to remain very loyal to those suppliers who aggressively support that partnership with a winning team and day to day strategies that provide progressive and timely proactive initiatives.
Winning business at Wal*Mart is a total team effort based on numerous variables. “Many make the call, but few are chosen.” Keeping and growing that business is a very dedicated daily team effort.
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• Our Commitment – Supplier Partners
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We offer our continuous commitment to work very closely with our Supplier Partners, aligning our team with yours to fully help manage and achieve sales objectives. We’ll strategically utilize the necessary sales process and support designed to create a long term and lasting Wal*Mart and SAMS partnership.
As the supplier, you are always in control of the scope and the direction of your business initiatives.
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Supplier Integrity
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Supplier INTEGRITY is a huge factor in successfully driving business at Wal*Mart & SAMS Club. BST pledges a continued commitment to the principles that provide an honest and straightforward conduit with our combined team efforts to assure that you stay in the game. We will NEVER compromise either your or our integrity with questionable business practices.
All information shared and used in the course of doing business is always regarded as strictly confidential and held in the highest possible confidence. In addition, unless mutually agreed upon, and in a manner that would mutually favor both parties, we WILL NOT represent competitive product lines.
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Bentonville Support Team, LLC
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Bentonville Support Team, LLC is in no way associated with or endorsed by Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated or its affiliates. All references to Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated as well as its affiliates, trademarks and brands are used in strict accordance with the Fair Use Doctrine and are not intended to imply that Bentonville Support Team, LLC is a Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated vehicle for advertising or for any other commercial purposes.
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Direct Contact Information
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David Fitch, Phone: 479-633-3355, FAX: 888-525-2131
Email: David@BentonvilleSupportTeam.com
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