1. Introduction ZARA is one of the trendy garment retailers as an important brand in portfolio of Inditex. With development of technology and extension of market‚ ZARA has expanded to over 1‚500 stores in 44 countries‚ since founded at a Spanish town called La Coruña in 1975. In internationalization process‚ Zara employed various retailer formats‚ especially online shops‚ to complement weakness in traditional in-store purchase. Moreover‚ current development status of e-tailling is attractive for
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Zara had an IS department located in La Coruña consisting of only 50 people‚ they had no chief information officer or a formal process for setting the IT budget. The department’s responsibility was simply to support all Inditex stores worldwide from that location and develop the applications used in the company. The IT employees weren’t even needed in the process of opening a new store because all it required was a packet of floppy disks that were simply copied to the point-of-sale terminals and
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www.hbr.org Spanish clothier Zara turns the rules of supply chain management on their head. The result? A superresponsive network and profit margins that are the envy of the industry. Rapid-Fire Fulfillment by Kasra Ferdows‚ Michael A. Lewis‚ and Jose A.D. Machuca Reprint R0411G This document is authorized for use only in PGDM / Operations and Supply Chain Management by Dr. Sourabh Bhattacharya at Institute of Management Technology‚ Hyderabad (IMT‚HYD) from November 2013 to March
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Matteo Fioravanti Abbey Road - MIB 2013 2355 words Zara: IT for Fast Fashion Zara: IT for Fast Fashion EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In This case we see the typical problem which affect big Companies : the conflict between old style and new school of thought. We analyze Zara’s information Technology strategies and the diatribe between Salgado‚ The Head of the Department and Sanchez ‚ his assistant‚s concern upgrading the operating system and the implementation of a new IT system to fulfill the needs
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UIBS Strategic Management Individual Assignment ‚ Meric Oztekin 1. Course Exist Case: Zara – Business Model‚ Competition‚ Competitive Advantages‚ and Strategies Read the case Zara – Fast Fashion‚ and answer the following question. Submit your answer within 2 pages. 1. What is Zara’s distinctive business model? Follow the descriptive points given in the lecture note for session1 and write it like a good story; 2. What are Zara’s key strong resources
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flawlessly for many years‚ however‚ management is worried that the hardware vendor for the POS machines will stop providing this outdated machines (Ferdows et al.‚ 2004). The purpose of this paper is for Salgado‚ the head of the technical department at Inditex‚ to analyze whether Zara should keep the system that has worked well for so long‚ or to upgrade it to a newer technology with more advanced features. The issues surrounding the DOS system‚ dial-up modem‚ networking abilities‚ manual inventory system
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thirds parties. Unlike usual retail supply chains‚ Zara outsources from inside of Europe for its garments and uses a small portion of Asia and around the worlds‚ which mainly focuses on basics. The others 50% of items are manufactured in-house using Inditex related fabrics and dyes. This in-house manufacturing gives Zara the advantage to create entire new lines in just a couple of weeks and allows them to be responsive to the market‚ by either stopping production of certain items that are not succeeding
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September 7‚ 2011 was an epic day for American fast-fashion fans. The Spanish retailer‚ Zara‚ owned by parent company Inditex‚ finally launched its ecommerce site. What on earth took them so long? When I saw the first announcement of their ecommerce launch I ran home and dug through my undergrad course work and quickly produced a case study I’d read in 2003. “Zara: IT for Fast Fashion” a Harvard Business School case study that examined Zara’s IT infrastructure and how it supported their unique
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9 3.3.2 Strategy analysis 9 a Strategic Advantages 9 b Strategic Drawbacks 10 4.0 Recommendation 10 5.0 Conclusion 12 6.0 Reference 13 1.0 Introduction This report is about ZARA which is a global brand of clothing owned by the Inditex Group. It is the world’s third-clothing retailer‚ one of the world’s four major fashion chain (the other three are the United States of casual fashion giant GAP‚ the Swedish fashion giant H & M‚ German parity giant clothing chain C & A)‚ has
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Europe provided it with its competitive advantage; however‚ I believe it will also make it fail if it decides to grow substantially into other markets. Financial Analysis compare to competitors In comparing Inditex financial performance against its competitors‚ it is apparent that Inditex is performing extremely well compared to its competitors in terms of productivity of its workforce‚ net revenues and cost of goods sold. Their return on investment is also significantly higher than others. Success
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