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Re: Walmart GEM ?

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:25:57 EDT

neonhomer posted :

said by ke4pym:

Can't speak to the whole thing. But I've heard multiple associates refer to Gemini as the little hand held scanner doo-hickie.

The handhelds were identified as a Telxon (pronounced Tel-zon), and the particular model used when I was there was the PTC-960. IIRC, their back of house system was called SMART, or "Store Management through Applied Retail Technology". This was how inventory was managed back then, and this also allowed the user to print reports per department, per store, and per division.
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Re: Walmart GEM ?

Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:54:52 EDT

SipSizzurp posted :

said by kazkaz:

GEM is Global Enterprise Mailbox, which is an AS2 mailbox where copies of POs and other information are sent/received to/from Walmart suppliers.

It's also the name of the AS2 hostname that they use, gem.wal-mart.com

Thank you Sir ! I appreciate you taking the time to post the info. It fits right in with the work I had done. Now I will move forward with a more informed presentation.

Working with EDI and document generation was a quite an exercise for me. I wrote some pretty slick routines in GWbasic to manipulate the data files and assemble the EDI documents. I might pick up some new clients with the help of the info posted here. Thanks again !

Re: Walmart GEM ?

Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:25:09 EDT

kazkaz posted :

said by SipSizzurp:

That is interesting. Maybe the GEM reference I recall was a long carry over from the early days. Glad they finally got around to naming it something that made better sense.

Re: Walmart GEM ?

Mon, 07 Mar 2016 20:43:47 EDT

AsherN posted : GEM probably made sense then. Likely an internal name, before the time where everything had to be named by marketing.

Re: Walmart GEM ?

Mon, 07 Mar 2016 20:31:37 EDT

SipSizzurp posted : That is interesting. Maybe the GEM reference I recall was a long carry over from the early days. Glad they finally got around to naming it something that made better sense.

Re: Walmart GEM ?

Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:58:59 EDT

anon posted : Many many many moons ago, circa mid-eighties and early nineties I recall doing some work for a telecom company purchasing agent that ran MSDOS based EDI software which functioned B2B via dialup modems. It was all ASCII text and ANSI graphics based functionality. The only reference to GEM that I recall was the old GEM graphics Operating System which ran on IBM and compatible PC's.

Re: Walmart GEM ?

Mon, 07 Mar 2016 07:50:51 EDT

ke4pym posted :

said by SipSizzurp:

Is "Gemini" the system I remember being called "GEM" ?

Can't speak to the whole thing. But I've heard multiple associates refer to Gemini as the little hand held scanner doo-hickie.

Re: Walmart GEM ?

Sun, 06 Mar 2016 15:06:12 EDT

SipSizzurp posted :

said by Black Box:

Somebody just told me that their system is called Retail Link...

Thank you very much. Yes, that certainly is the platform I remember. EDI and everything, but even expanded.
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said by AsherN:

...the name may have changed in the past 10 years, making your information too dated.

Good observations. In addition to changing my approach it looks like I will need a lot of homework to catch up to the new and expanded interface. Thanks to everyone for your input. You've got me right on track with what I am wanting to do.

Re: Walmart GEM ?

Sun, 06 Mar 2016 14:51:05 EDT

AsherN posted : I would not include the name of the system. First, odds are it's meaningless to the prospective employer. Second, and perhaps more mportant, the name may have changed in the past 10 years, making your information too dated.

Re: Walmart GEM ?

Sun, 06 Mar 2016 13:50:01 EDT

Black Box posted : Somebody just told me that their system is called Retail Link, but I'm not sure if that is their interface with the suppliers or the whole system.
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Re: Walmart GEM ?

Sun, 06 Mar 2016 11:35:03 EDT

Hall posted : ERP and CRM are generic industry terms. He's looking for the specific name that Walmart gave their system.

Re: Walmart GEM ?

Sat, 05 Mar 2016 15:52:37 EDT

HELLFIRE posted : Thanks for that.

ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning also comes to mind. Don't know if anyone else has any other thoughts

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Re: Walmart GEM ?

Sat, 05 Mar 2016 14:59:00 EDT

SipSizzurp posted :

said by HELLFIRE:

Question : what was stored in this "master database?"

All inventory and all sales data. It was very marketing oriented. You could get reports such as time of day that your items sell and reports about the other products that sold with your items. There are literally hundreds of criteria that they track.

Re: Walmart GEM ?

Sat, 05 Mar 2016 12:13:02 EDT

HELLFIRE posted :

said by SipSizzurp:

the Walmart master database system

Question : what was stored in this "master database?"

If the database had to do with stock, inventory, ordering, etc. then the immediate term that comes to my mind is CRM - Customer Relationship Management.

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Walmart GEM ?

Sat, 05 Mar 2016 01:57:38 EDT

SipSizzurp posted : About 10 years ago I wrote EDi data manipulation / interface software for a client. As I recall, the Walmart master database system was called "GEM". I am working on some new marketing for my business and wanted to reference my prowess with Walmart EDi and the GEM system. Google searches are turning up Walmart "Gemini". Is "Gemini" the system I remember being called "GEM" ? I wouldn't guess that the Edi system has changed much in the past 10 years considering that it was all flat file ASCII at the time, I just wanted to be current with the terminology.
Thanks !

Edit - Sorry, this might have been a better question for the B2B forum.