Kaseumsouk‚ Rishi Gurung‚ Savouth Seng‚ Dev Shrestha‚ Soukry SopCase 3: Zara IT for Fast Fashion11. How would you advise Salgado to proceed on the issue of upgrading Zara’s POS systems?Salgado should be more open-minded when evaluating a newer POS system. Store employees have expressed frustrations with the current process. For instance‚ they are unable to determine if a garment is in stock without manually sifting through merchandise. Zara should provide employees the ability to review inventory balances
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growing clothing retailer that designs‚ produces and sells apparel and fashion accessories through 1‚284 stores around the world under many brand names. Zara is an apparel chain owned at operated by the Inditex. It specializes in fast fashion and offers women ’s‚ men ’s and children ’s fashions at affordable prices. This report analyzes the case Zara: Fast Fashion and the problems associated. The report covers the detailed study of Zara ’s:•Situational Analysis‚ which includes factors such as the environment
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The ZARA: Fast Fashion case. 1. Create a diagram that illustrates the linkages among Zahra’s competitive choices. Firstly‚ everything is connected through centralized hubs. Zara has its main operations in Spain‚ but with each expansion into a new country‚ that country has its own centralized Zara facility. This allows for local factors to be considered in each market‚ but gives Zara an excellent line of communication and ultimate control of all operations. The in-house designs are sourced this
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What is Zara value proposition to customers? How is Zara’s Supply Chain helping this value proposition? Zara is able to sell fashionable clothing to consumers. It can quickly respond to consumer trends and bring garments to market that follow trends in the local market. This concept of “fast fashion” allows trends to move from catwalk/conception to retail location quickly‚ in some instances in just a few weeks. It also affords these fashionable items at reasonable prices. Consumers therefore look
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Fast Zara‚ Fast Fashion Introduction Everyone‚ no matter youngsters or middle-aged mothers‚ love to buy clothes and keep updated on latest fashion trend. In the past‚ people could only consume western styles clothing if they are rich enough to go shopping by travelling in European countries or able to afford expensive air mail to send the consumed western clothes back from overseas. However‚ it took a period of time and the fashionable clothing may become “old” at the time received. As the information
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Significant local variation in customers’ attributes and preferences was an issue not only between regions but also within regions. ZARA’S BUSINESS MODEL We mainly analyzed Zara to recommend on Inditex’s strategy since it was the flagship of Inditex and the generator of a huge percentage of financial results by itself. Zara used needs-based positioning‚ targeting a specific segment of customers and providing a tailored set of activities that can serve those needs best‚ in developing its business
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Case Study: Zara-Fast Fashion Case Summary: Inditex is the parent company of six different apparel retailing chains that includes Massimo Dutti‚ Pull and Bear‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho‚ and‚ most importantly‚ Zara. Zara has historically been the most profitable of the chains‚ operating 282 stores in 32 countries at the end of 2001 (Ghemawat & Nueno‚ 2006). The other five chains that are operated by Inditex have not matched the growth capabilities or revenue of Zara. Zara’s apparel offers
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Zara: IT for Fast Fashion Identification of issues: The case study‚ Zara: IT for Fast Fashion‚ focuses on the retail giant‚ Inditex‚ and how its largest retail chain‚ Zara‚ has been so successful with their business model of high fashion‚ product variation‚ low cost‚ speed‚ and flexibility. Several issues are identified in this case study. One glaring issue that is apparent relates to the fact that a long term Information Technology (IT) strategy does not exist. There is no formal
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Zara - IT for Fast Fashion Management Information Systems EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The objective of this document is to discuss the issue of Inditex’s DOS-base IT infrastructure and how it affects Zara’s performance. Inditex is concerned about its IT infrastructure being antiquated and the possibility that hardware vendors will upgrade their machines leaving them incompatible with DOS. Because Zara’s core business model is vertically integrated‚ it could specialize in speed and efficiency and
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ZARA IT for fast fashion TOPICS | PAGE NUMBER | ZARA IT for fashion- A Background | 3 | Implementation of IS in designing | 3 | Implementation of IS in purchase | 4 | Implementation of IS in manufacturing | 4 | Implementation of IS in distribution system | 5 | Implementation of IS in retailing | 6 | Implementation Issues with People | 7 | Implementation Issues with Procedures | 9 | Implementation Issues with Devices | 10 | Implementation Issues with Software and Database
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