ZARA"Compare and Contrast the approaches taken by H&M‚ Benetton and Zara to managing their supply chains". Design Brand | Method | H & M | Mainly in-house designers who design garments to a price point to produce designer garments at a reasonable price. Pattern designers are an important part of the process due to all garments being manufactured by third parties. | Zara | Separate the design into three market segments‚ Women’s‚ Men’s and Children’s lines. Each segment has it’s
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Zara – vertical integration 1) How is Zara organized with respect to its vertical integration and outsourcing decisions? What governance structure does it appear to follow? -It is divided by 60% in-house and 40% outsourced. The in-house represents the more complicated ‚complex‚ trendy designs‚ while the outsourced remains with the labour intense activities (sewing) and basic designs such as men’s dress shirts and accessories. - It follows a decentralized decision making process based
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Fashion Marketing: An Introduction Wance Tacconelli Donghua University Shanghai Session Overview • Course learning goals • Key fashion terminologies – Style‚ design and fashion • Key fashion markets – Womenswear‚ menswear‚ accessories • What is marketing? – Understanding customer needs – Delivering value – Marketing as a social and managerial process • Customer relationship and profitability management A bit about myself… Education University of York‚ UK B.A. in Sociology
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Interconnected influences • Speed of change – Particularly IT Macro-External Environment (1) Macro-External Environment (2) Political • Government stability • Taxation policy • Foreign trade regulations • Social welfare policies Economic • Business cycles • GNP trends • Interest rates • Money supply • Inflation • Unemployment • Disposable income Macro-External Environment (3) Sociocultural • Social mobility • Lifestyle changes • Attitudes to work and leisure • Consumerism Technological
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QUESTION 1 As completely as possible‚ sketch the supply chain for Zara from raw materials to consumer purchase. ANSWER ZARA’S SUPPLY CHAIN Description Zara makes about 40% of their raw material (fabric). The remaining 60% is outsourced from within Spain‚ mostly from the La Curuna. Designing of clothes at Zara is done by creative teams of over 300 professionals at the headquarters in La Curuna‚ Spain. They act on the information fed to them from the stores managers. The first stage in
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Zara case Zara uses a vertically integrated system (VMS): In this system‚ wholesalers‚ retailers and distributors work as a unified system. One channel owns the others. They have a corporate VMS system‚ because Zara has managed to build a system that is controlled from the headquarters and it allows a quick response to decide and solve problems. Inditex‚ Zara’s parent company owns most of the resources to design‚ produce and distribute. Recommendations: Instead of doing everything themselves
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USEFUL INFORMATION Assignment Students are required to complete one (1) MAIN assignment. The learning outcomes are stated in the assignment question. The Assignment will be a graded assessment that contributes to the overall assessment in this subject. Submission of Assignment The date for submission of your assignment will be based on the college administration system and no concession or extension will be granted. Late submission will be automatically penalized 10% of the total marks
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Zara International was a retail shop originated in La Coruna‚ Spain in 1975. It was clothing and accessories shop and imitated the latest fashion trends and sold them at a lower cost. It became Zara International after entering Portugal in 1988 and then the United States and France in the 1990s. The distributor for this brand is Inditex and is considered the most successful retail chain in the world. Zara has a business strategy that is very different from the retailers nowadays. If a customer orders
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Imagine that you are a high school student. Everyday‚ you eat lunch with your friends at the fast food place near your school. You order your usual double cheeseburger with French fries and go to sit down with your friends. They’re standing by the wall‚ waiting for another group to get up so you can sit at your usual table by the vending machine. Ten minutes go by before the group finally leaves. When you sit down and look at your cell phone‚ you realize that you have only three minutes to get to
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Zara’s Case Study Company Profile Zara is one of the largest international fashion companies with 1671 stores around the globe. It is a part of Inditex holding. Inditex is one of the world’s largest fashion retailers‚ welcoming shoppers at its eight store formats -Zara‚ Pull & Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho‚ Zara Home and Uterqüe - boasting 5.693 stores in 85 markets [www.inditex.com]‚ [www.zara.com]. In 1975 the first Zara shop was founded in Spain. In 1976-1984 In-Spain
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