WalMarts inventory system preemptively orders based on sell through rate, on-hand, and historical trends. Backroom stock is logged so a pick order can be fired when shelf count gets too low.
Source: worked in a few Walmart back rooms picking and binning among other things. The was about 8 years ago so things are likely a little bit different. Hopefully better since shelf max counts were always way off or we'd get flooded with freight and lose stuff in the bins.
Source: worked in a few Walmart back rooms picking and binning among other things. The was about 8 years ago so things are likely a little bit different. Hopefully better since shelf max counts were always way off or we'd get flooded with freight and lose stuff in the bins.