According to insiders, a Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart is facing the high-level personnel changes is not an isolated phenomenon, Yao-Chang Chen from the Chinese American president since he took office, Wal-Mart China has been in a high-level personnel changes. Now, in addition to last year promoted to chief administrative officer of Pei, former top Wal-Mart China, almost all left. This is also to Wal-Mart embarked on a more localized way.
The turnover for the procurement of Lin Jinghua Yao-Chang Chen was again attributed to the decentralization reform strategy.
Since last year, Wal-Mart stores on the level of large-scale restructuring, streamlining store middle management staff. On this basis, Wal-Mart from March 2010 launched a large-district system reform, the establishment of the North, East, South, West and other large areas. In procurement, Wal-Mart headquarters in Shenzhen in addition to control over 100 national suppliers, other commodity approach, pricing, promotion and display such negotiations are decentralized authority in major areas.
This change reduced the purchasing power of Wal-Mart headquarters, but also changed the Wal-Mart entered China has been in use since the U.S. model, and this led to the original level of the Wal-Mart China not meet this change.