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The purpose of this memo is to discuss what are the Business and IT issues pertaining to the RFID system implementation at Wal-Mart relating to Chapter 11 and 12 and does this signal the failure of the project. The content of this memo contains and describes the strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and systems specification of the Business and IT at Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart's strengths are in maintaining a low-cost structure and bringing low prices to customers. Through economies of scale, Wal-Mart is able to demand the lowest prices from its suppliers. Wal-Mart's strengths also lie in its ability to use and find new IT solutions to support its distribution channels and lowering costs through efficiencies such as its IT project called RFID.
Wal-Mart's weakness in relation to the RFID technology development is imposing a top-down demand on its suppliers before the technology and business matured. This demand at such an embryonic stage of the technology may not be economically......

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