Retail Link insights from Walmart’s top techie

Hers may not be a household name among Walmart suppliers, but few of the retailer’s executives have as much of an impact on the daily lives of trading partners as Suja Chandrasekaran.

As Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Walmart, Chandrasekaran leads the technology and data transformation underway at Walmart that is referred to as Retail Link 2.0. The information sharing system known as Retail Link was pioneered by Walmart more than two decades ago and today is used extensively by suppliers for all manner of supply chain applications.

Chandrasekaran is the featured speaker at an upcoming meeting of Doing Business in Bentonville, where she is expected to weigh in on the future of Retail Link and preview the capabilities of Retail Link 2.0.

The event will be held Jan. 27 from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the John Q. Hammons Center in Rogers, Ark.