Value Chain Analysis Of Home Depot

Home Depot is a home improvement store which first opened its doors in 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia. Home Depot has a corporate strategy to operate like an inverted triangle: by putting their customers and associates first, then the CEO, they believe success will follow (Home Depot, 2016). This theory seems to be working for the company, as there are over 2,200 stores between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. They are now the world’s largest home improvement retailer and brought in over 88.5 billion dollars in revenue in 2015 (Home Depot, 2016).

Home depot offer more than 35,000 products in store and over 1 million products online. Home Depot provides products and services for the do-it-yourselfer, the professional contractor, and the Do-it-

My fiancé and I just purchased a ‘fixer upper’ home. Every weekend and throughout the week for the past month and a half we, along with my parents, have been working to get the house move-in-ready. Although there are still some large projects left to tackle, we are nearing that move-in-ready point. We have glazed and sealed the original wood windows (all 21), refinished the wood flooring, ripped one bathroom beyond the subflooring (we replaced the subfloor as well), tiled the shower and flooring in the bathroom, painted every single room twice, replaced the molding throughout the house, and blew in 18 inches of insulation in the attic. I should really invest in Home Depot.

The corporate and operations strategy must be intertwined (Jacobs & Chase, 2013). Operations and supply chain strategies are “the setting of board policies and plans that will guide the use of the resources needed by the firm to implement its corporate strategy (Jacobs & Chase, 2013).” Basically, operational strategies correspond to the goals of the corporation, and are how the organization plans on operating in order to on meet the goals of the larger