ZARA INTERNAL ANALYSIS. Zara’s core competence is recognizing and assimilating the continuous changes in fashion. They’re very good at this because there’s a very good communication within the company. Store managers send information about the customer demands and new fashion trends to the headquarters on a daily basis. So if there’s a new trend‚ Zara is able to adapt their products or design new articles immediately. If a design doesn’t sell within a week‚ it’s withdrawn from the shops‚ further
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Business logistics The way business is done was revolutionised by the Internet and caused emergence of the e-commerce. The main changes from the business perspective happened in the supply chain. Supply chain is important for any business‚ because it literally shows the way inputs go through to reach the customers. It is often very sophisticated and complex‚ but simple version could be shown in the following scheme: As far as the logistics is concerned‚ we can look closely to that aspect
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industry? Is that different from what it takes a regional player to succeed? 2. What elements of Zara’s value chain help/hurt its ability to grow? Do you think Zara should grow 3. How would you advise Salgado to proceed on the issue of upgrading Zara’s POS systems? Intro - Inditex (Industria de Diseño Textil) of Spain‚ the owner of Zara and five other apparel retailing chains * Global Apparel Chain - Characterized as a prototypical example of a buyer-driven global chain‚ in which profits
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of quality to logistics systems has not been fully realised. In the last decade the growing importance of quality management has been a widely debated topic. Much empirical evidence links an organisations quality management practices to improved organisational performance therefore greater surplus. Due to increasing global competition‚ competitive priorities have shifted from simply cost to quality and flexibility (DeMeyer‚ Miller‚ Nakone‚ and Ferdows‚ 1989)‚ as a result logistics is applied as
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Field of study: Reverse Logistics | Topic: Managing returns for increased Reverse Logistics profits. | | | Research Proposal Alcuin Ninian Dhilip II MIB‚ 11SJCCMIB00 Managing returns for increased Reverse Logistics profits Reverse Logistics is one the most overlooked elements of the complete operation cycle. There is a perception that returns are a necessary evil to be avoided at all costs‚ Even though reuse of products and materials
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Case Memo: Zara Fast Fashion 1. With which of the international competitors listed in the case is it most interesting to compare Inditex’s financial results? Why? What do comparisons indicate about Inditex’s relative operating economics? Indeed comparing the financial performance of Inditex with the key competitors‚ Inditex was the most profitable company in terms of ROIC. In terms of revenues‚ income and size‚ H&M shows that it is the most interesting to compare. Inditex has a store number
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management‚ a company must also be good at partner relationship management. The first part of this chapter explores the nature of marketing channels and the marketer’s channel design and management decisions. We then examine physical distribution—or logistics—an area that is growing dramatically in importance and sophistication. In the next chapter‚ we’ll look more closely at two major channel intermediaries—retailers and wholesalers. We’ll start with a look at a company whose groundbreaking‚ customer-centred
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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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Anderson • Jé é i G lli Jérémie Gallien‚ London Business S h l L d B i School • Miguel Díaz‚ Zara CFO • Javier García‚ Zara • José Manuel Corredoira‚ Zara Corredoira • Marcos Montes‚ Zara • José Antonio Ramos‚ formerly with Zara • Juan Correa‚ MIT LFM 2007 Caro: “Inventory Management of a Fast-Fashion Retail Network” The Fast-Fashion Business Model selling season a assortme ent time Trad. Retailer Vs. Zara assortment Average # visits / customer / year = 17 Caro: “Inventory Management of a
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ZARA: Fast Fashion Zara’s performance in the EU. Zara is the largest and most internationalized of Inditex (Industria de Diseno Textil) chain based on Spain. Zara had built up their business in the Spanish market by 1990‚ and started to expand their business into global market. At the same time‚ according to the case‚ they started to make major investments in manufacturing logistics and IT‚ including establishment of a just-in-time manufacturing system‚ a 130‚000-square-meter warehouse close
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