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Spår 05 · Supplier One

Walmart 1P: Build dependable supplier records and clear item-resolution workflows.

As a first-party supplier you sell wholesale to Walmart, and Walmart retails the product in stores and on Walmart.com. Item data flows through Supplier One — the Setup Hub for new items, the Maintenance Hub for changes, and the Activity Monitor for the status of both — and every item needs a Walmart merchant's approval before it is orderable. Supplier catalog work is less about copywriting and more about records: unit and case hierarchies, GTINs at each level, and a source of truth that survives handoffs between sales, logistics, and content teams.

This track covers the six skills that make supplier item data dependable: building a trustworthy source record, setting items up against Walmart's requirements, maintaining content in bulk without losing the thread, and turning errors and tickets into verified outcomes.

Arbetsyta

Supplier One

Relation

Supplier → Walmart

Work within the supplier relationship. Use the item specifications and workflows available to your supplier account; a merchant, not a feed, is the final approver of new items and re-grouping.

6 moduler

68 min läsning
  1. Modul 0111 min läsning

    Supplier catalog: item references, packaging levels, and reconciliation

    How a Walmart supplier item is identified (GTIN per packaging level, supplier stock number, Walmart item number), where Supplier One and Retail Link fit, why unit and case data must never mix, and how to reconcile conflicting sources before submitting.

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  2. Modul 0211 min läsning

    Item setup: the Setup Hub, requirements, and merchant approval

    Set up new supplier items in Supplier One — single item or bulk spreadsheet, the requirements block, readiness checks before submission, how the Submissions Manager groups submissions, merchant approval, reading a decline, and what orderable, on-site, and in-store each mean.

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  3. Modul 0311 min läsning

    Content maintenance: the Maintenance Hub, bulk exports, and exception lists

    Maintain many supplier item records consistently — the Maintenance Hub export/edit/upload loop, protecting the match key in Excel, reading the Submissions Manager, comparing before and after, and keeping an exception list that records what did not apply and why.

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  4. Modul 0411 min läsning

    Issue resolution: from error to ticket to verified outcome

    Turn Submissions Manager errors and page problems into scoped issues, sort them into the common issue families and their owners, gather evidence, choose between a correction, a merchant request and a support ticket, and close only on a verified result.

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  5. Modul 0512 min läsning

    Variant groups and re-parenting: grouping supplier items and changing a live group

    How a supplier variant group works — shared ID, attribute names and values, the primary — building one in the Setup Hub, what you can change on a live group yourself, what needs the merchant, and checking the result option by option.

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  6. Modul 0612 min läsning

    Supplier support tickets: filing, following up, and escalating to the merchant

    When a Supplier One ticket is the right tool, how to file one that gets acted on — issue type, identifiers, one issue, evidence — how to follow up in one thread, when the merchant takes over, and how to close on a verified result.

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