Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how to develop a competitive supply chain in order to response to the speed of the customer changes in clothing industry. Literatures review – The key success factors of the clothing industry are explained. Also the supply chain concepts related to the industry are developed (Agility‚ Quick Response and Lean) Analysis of Zara’s supply chain – The supply chain network of the company is analysed and each stage of the network is developed in details
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Critically evaluation of Porter’s five forces‚ Value Chain Analysis‚ Balanced Scored Card Given the demands of today’s competitive and dynamic environment‚ it is quite challenging to understand strategic issues facing organizations and develop the capability for long term organizational success. This report aims to present a critically analysis of three frameworks across organizations: Porter’s Five Forces‚ Value Chain and Balanced Scorecard. Such critical evaluation includes identifying the benefits
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In order to cope with these challenges‚ Adidas has been applying Agile model of logistics and supply chain management. Agile Logistics and Supply Chain Management ‚ in Adidas’s case can be described with several characteristics as follows: Mass Customerization The base idea of this model is to produce and deliver various products at the level that most customers can find what they want when getting to our brand. However‚ various choices usually lead to the long process of decision-making process
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1. A convenience store chain attempts to be responsive and provide customers what they need‚ when they need it‚ where they need it. What are some different ways that a convenience store supply chain can be responsive? What are some risks in each case? Some of the ways that a convenience store chain can response are: * Focusing in the total cost of the supporting a chain‚ that includes all the elements of cost that go into a purchase like order quantities‚ deliveries‚ warehousing‚ support systems
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SCM 463- IKEA’s Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A) A) How should Marianne Barner respond to the invitation for IKEA to have a representative appear on the upcoming broadcast of the German video program? If Marianne Barner completely denied the request of attending the discussion‚ IKEA will presumably be viewed to be guilty and also aware of the child labor practices within Rangan Exports. Marianne Barner should respond by agreeing to send a representative for the discussion
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McDonald’s Corporation: Managing a sustainable supply chain Food safety should always be the top priority. Minimizing cost is important since it is McDonald’s profits that allow them the flexibility to focus on making a more sustainable supply chain. Sustainability helps build consumer trust and brand loyalty there is an economic insensitive for MD to try and be as sustainable as possible with its supply chain. However do to the nature of their purchasing it is within their best interest to make
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Vision of the future For many years‚ science fiction writers have challenged readers with visions of the future and future society. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man‚ society‚ and life to be like at some future time. One could divide their visions of future into two main streams: an apocalyptical one‚ with the degradation and demoralization of our society‚ and a utopian world‚ where our civilization turns into a highly conscious and developed one‚ and people live in
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chart of the flows of product‚ information‚ and financial settlements between Miliken‚ apparel shops design & manufacture apparel‚ department store chain headquarters & distribution centers‚ and the retail stores. As you can see‚ there is two way communication between each part of the supply chain that is next to one another but not up or down the chain‚ for example; the retails stores and the department headquarters communicate but the retail stores do not communicate with Miliken or the apparel
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Supply Chain Management (ENGM078) Sainsbury’s Supply Chain Strategies Arghavan Keivani 6150405 March 2011 A brief introduction to Sainsbury’s and its background J Sainsbury plc (Sainsbury’s) was founded in 1869 and is considered as a top UK-based food retailer having around 150‚000 employees. It drives a chain consist of 500 supermarkets and 290 smaller format stores through the country which offer groceries‚ electricals‚ clothing‚ homewares‚ DVD rentals and financial services. There
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without passing on the benefits to Seth Dhaniram? In my opinion it was not ethical on JOSH’s part to eliminate the distributors from the chain without passing the benefits to Seth Dhaniram. The main diplomatic reason which could have been explained by JOSH to make the decision of removing the distributors may be: * Increasing the efficiency of the supply chain in terms of the time that is taken by the product to reach the customers by removing one intermediate. * From customer’s point of view
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