Zara Boutique Clothing Store (as subsidiary of Index SA) • Very strong link between store managers and central design team • Real time sales tracking through the use of electronic equipment- helps to identify trends • Trends translated to products within 15 days (catch the fashion while is still hot‚ thus responding quick to the fast changing taste of young urban consumers). Designs delivered quickly to stores • Continuous analysis of value chain and seeks to achieve control on as many sections
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Zara owns and manages numerous resources that can be categorized as tangible‚ intangible or organizational capabilities. The interactions between tangible and intangible resources help create organizational capabilities that provide value to the end consumer. Zara has a large variety of tangible resources due to its international expansion and vertical integration. Zara has 507 stores around the world with a total selling area of 488‚400 m² and 1‚050 million of Inditex ’s capital invested
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customized to the specific needs of each country and now only 5-10 percents of garments are customizedThis reduced the number of individual designs offered globally by over 30 percent‚ strengthening the global brand image and reducing production costs. 9. DESIGNINGfind the optimum balance between the 3 components of H&M business concepts-
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DIS 620 (TEI 2014) Management Information Systems (Oct 18‚2014) Case 1: Zara‚ Netflix and Amazon Business Systems by Efstratiou Kostandinos 1. ZARA a. General. Zara is one of the greatest global fashion companies belonging to the Spanish retail group‚ Inditex SA. Its founder Amancio Ortega Gaona opened its first store in A Coruña (Spain) in 1975. During the 1980s Ortega started changing the design and distribution process to react to new trends quicker. In 1988 the company started its
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and discussion As complete as possible‚ sketch the supply chain for Zara from raw materials to consumer purchase. Raw material – High tech automated cutting facilities – Small workshops – Ware houses – Stores – customers – Stores – Commercial managers Raw material Zara makes 40 percent of its own fabrics and produces more than half of its own clothes (maximize time efficiency) Cuts fabric in-house As it completes designs‚ Zara cuts fabric in-house. The cutting is done in Zara’s own high-tech
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One of the most significant moments in U.S. history was the terrorist attacks on that happened on September 11‚ 2001. This event was the first time in American history where we as a nation felt vulnerable to attacks. The aftermath from 9/11 has ensured that we made drastic changes to our security by enacting policies‚ and agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)‚ Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.)‚ U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM)‚ U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act of 2001
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A Zara - What did we learn? The case examines Zara‚ or its parent Inditex‚ that has established a super quick response value chain system. Traditional apparel value chains take months before a fashion season begins‚ but Zara is able to observe what is hot (and what is not selling) and responds quickly on the up-to-date fashion trends. As a result of Zara’s outstanding results‚ Inditex has expanded into 40 countries by 2001. • A quick comparison (see Class PowerPoints for financial
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District 9 and Racism The aliens encountered in District 9 are treated with the same level of distain and indifference usually reserved for refugees and ethnic minorities. District 9 concerns itself with after the first encounter and the struggle of coexistence. The film is set in South-Africa and bears similarities to the apartheid system including those of the District 6 initiative. In District 9 black and white characters come together to hate on the “prawn‚” the aliens in this story‚ who then
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On 9/11/2001 United States was attacked by terrorist group called al-Qaeda. 19 of them hijacked 4 planes. One plane crashed into the pentagon killing 184 people. Another plane‚ flight 93‚ crashed into an empty flied in Pennsylvania. The plane was originally heading to Washington DC‚ but crashed in a flied because the passengers fought back. The last 2 planes hit into the twin towers. The damage was so much that the south tower collapsed 56 minutes after it was attacked and the north tower didn’t
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