Brief Summary of Zara 2 How would you advise Salgado to proceed on the issue of upgrading Zara’s POS systems? 3 - Should the company upgrade the POS terminals to modern operating system? 3 - Should the company build in-store networks? 4 - Should the company give employees the ability to look up inventory balances for items in their own stores? 4 - Should the company give employees the ability to look up inventory balances for items in their other stores? 4 What is the Zara “business model”
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TYPICAL PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE • Sales decreases as the product moves over the timeline ZARA PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE • High fashion industry with latest designs and trends 5-6 weeks life cycle • The life cycle curves is shown as the graph above ZARA’S KEY FACTORS SHORT LEAD TIME LOWER QUANTITIES MORE STYLES • Keep up with the newest fashion trends more fashionable clothes • Zara only needs about 30 days to identify new trend and have the product available in stores
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CURRENT SITUATION Goal: ZARA’S goal is to respond quickly and accurately to shifting costumer demands. In order to do this ZARA establish 3 processes. 1. Ordering: Every store places an order twice a week to La Coruña. The order includes replenishment of existing items and initial request for newly items. • The store manager determines the replenishment items‚ walking around the store and counting the garments and talking with sales people. THEY CAN NOT LOOK UP THE INVENTORY BALANCE
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INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT 1. What makes Zara different from other specialty apparel retailers? What are the main differences in the business models of Zara and H&M? Zara’s greatest strength and at the same time the difference from other specialty apparel retailers lies in its supply chain ‚ which allows Zara to turn over new styles in a fraction of the time ( three weeks ) it takes conventional retailers. It is interesting how the two leading fashion retailers ( Zara and H&M ) have totally opposite
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Vivian Pankey Neisha Vitello Executive Summary Zara is the flagship fashion retail company under the parent corporation Inditex. First opened in Spain‚ Zara currently has a network of 1‚292 stores spread across 72 countries. The infrastructure Zara has built is a core competency. Their innovations to bring new fashion designs to market faster than competitors differentiates Zara from their rivals. Managers believe the allure of Zara is the freshness of its offerings‚ the creation of a sense
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expected to show high resistance in response to it. Even though Zara has a decentralized decision making process‚ the retailer’s IS department exercises absolute autonomy on the IT infrastructure and design. The fact that “only one person had left the department” in the past 10 years further confirms that the retailer is suffering from cognitive and action inertia‚ and thus creating a huge barrier for such upgrade. Nevertheless‚ Zara should still perform such upgrade in the long run. Q1b. Should
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means that Zara has been successful by meeting the ‘risk of cannibalization’. Compare with the other competitors‚ Inditex has some advantages. For example‚ the first one is the repeat visits. An average high-street store in Spain expects customers to visit 3 times a year‚ but that figure will be up to 17 times for Zara. And Zara can offer considerably more products than similar companies. It launches about 30‚000 model items .annually compared with 10‚000 items for its key competitors. Zara is also
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Zara Phillips is a member of the royal family She was a young riders‚ which included victory in the Under 25 Championship at Bramham and an individual silver medal in the European Young Riders Championship in 2002‚ the daughter of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips really established herself at senior level in 2003 by finishing second at Burghley‚ three day event with Toytown. A polished display in the dressage arena and a fast clear cross country round gave her the lead going in to the show
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charge. This feature is used to protect the mill from damages should the frozen charge drop as the mill is rotated from stand still. This report investigates the challenges faced in the design of grinding mill drives for mining operations. The challenges investigated are control challenges‚ mechanical challenges and electrical challenges. In the report background information on the types of
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Khaled Mohamed Abd el latif 900 11 4156 RHET 102-12 Essay 1 draft 1 B Swanson 22 September 2012 Challenges Facing Music Industry and How to Develop It Music is one of the most beloved human experiences. Everyone enjoys a different type of music and that is evident in different events from graduation ceremonies to weddings and presidential inaugurations. Also‚ we use music in our films‚ plays because we can always deliver the message using music. It is the power of music that everyone
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