Walmart (Install)

Walmart Inc. is one of the world’s largest retailers, with 10,000+ stores across 20+ countries. Known for its commitment to value and innovation, Walmart continues to evolve its in-store and online experiences to better serve millions of customers every day.

OPPORTUNITY

Walmart set out to optimize and reorganize their apparel departments across more than 30 stores, requiring a partner who could:

• Assemble and install new fixtures
  
  
• Reorganize merchandise across large departments
  
  
• Execute all changes overnight only
  
  
• Ensure every item was on the floor by morning
  
  
• Maintain an excellent customer experience by day
  
  
• Deliver 0 business interruption, avoiding any lost sales during complete layout transformations
  
  

To achieve this, Walmart needed a highly orchestrated, night-by-night phasing plan that would allow stores to open every morning fully stocked, shoppable, and visually consistent — despite undergoing complete departmental overhauls overnight.

DEDON’S RESPONSE

DedON worked closely with Walmart to understand their operational constraints, merchandise volume, and fixture standards. We then developed and executed a detailed overnight phasing plan designed to keep stores fully customer-ready every single day.

Our support included:

• A refined phasing strategy broken down by night, ensuring seamless transitions between shifts
  
  
• Overnight teardown, fixture assembly, and merchandise reorganization with zero disruption to daytime operations
  
  
• A proactive deficiency-tracking process, developed in partnership with Walmart
  
  
• Manifest analysis to identify quantity mismatches before work began
  
  
• Pre-project calculations of required parts per store based on size and category mix
  
  
• Advanced notifications to Walmart when additional fixtures or components were needed — preventing shipment delays and ensuring the project stayed on schedule
  
  
• Consistent delivery across multiple apparel projects and additional program scopes
  
  

DedON’s ability to combine planning expertise with operational execution made us a reliable extension of Walmart’s store planning and fixture installation teams.

RESULTS

DedON’s approach ensured that:

• Every piece of merchandise was on the sales floor by open, every day
  
  
• All stores remained fully shoppable throughout the entire program
  
  
• Projects were completed on time — or early — in every store
  
  
• Walmart gained a proactive deficiency-tracking and materials forecasting system, reducing delays and preventing shortages
  
  

This program highlighted DedON’s organizational strength, technical planning expertise, and ability to manage complex, high-volume overnight transformations with no business interruption.

WORK SMARTER WITH DEDON

If you’re looking for an extension of your store planning team — one that understands your business as deeply as you do — DedON offers the expertise, planning capability, and execution power to deliver large-scale projects without disrupting daily operations.