They’re rebuilding their entire supply chain from the ground up with AI. Their new, purpose-built "high-tech" perishable distribution centers, which are designed from the ground up for near-full robotic handling of fresh goods like produce, dairy, meat, and eggs, are up to 98% automated, with AI-driven robotics sorting goods, handling perishables, and building perfectly optimized pallets for stores.
Their AI route-optimization engine has already eliminated 30 million wasted miles and reduced fuel, labor, and equipment wear.
On top of that, Walmart’s “self-healing inventory” system constantly scans for stock problems—overages, shortages, slow movers, fast movers—and fixes them automatically. It reroutes products, rebalances inventory across regions, and prevents out-of-stocks and overstocks before a human even notices. In one local market alone (Mexico City), it saved them over $55 million.
They’re also rolling out millions of IoT sensors so every pallet, case, and cold item is tracked with real-time precision. That means less spoilage, fewer errors, tighter replenishment, and lower storage costs.
That is impressive. I’m all about not wasting anything and just-in-time restocking is great.
When I managed the Garden Center, inventory and turnover and top sellers versus things that languished was my priority. We had a LOT of perishables to move in a short window of time.
I must’ve been one of their only Managers to ever concern themselves with that - my sales were always higher than all the other stores and yearly Inventory (the BANE of every Retailer’s existence!) always went smoothly with few errors.
Well, we DID have a $3 million dollar error once, but that was just a keyboard entry error. Thank goodness! :)
LOCAL WAL MART HAS A GLARING ERROR:
DUE TO THE MESS DURING “SUPPLY CHAIN”ISSUES:
HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND PLAIN, UN-LOTIONED KLEENEX
ONLY THE KIND WITH LOTION....
IF YOU GRAB ONE OF THOSE TO CLEAN YOUR GLASSES-—YOU NIGHT AS WELL USE STP......A REAL MESS