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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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 Zara to entry
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the Fashion World Upside Down 13 December 2007 Introduction ZARA is the flagship chain store for the Spanish Inditex Group owned by Spanish tycoon Amancio Ortega‚ who also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti‚ Pull and Bear‚ Stradivarius and Bershka. Today‚ Inditex is probably the world ’s fastest growing clothing retailer with over 3‚100 stores around the world in over 70 countries (more than four times the 2000 figure) the Zara format taking around 1‚000 of those stores. In March 2006‚ the
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Zara’s supply chain case study Contents Declaration: 1 Introduction 3 SCM tools and techniques 4 Advanced concepts and Future trends of SCM 6 Linking theoritical concepts and real life SCM 9 ZARA gaining competitive advantage using SCM 10 Managing global supply chain 12 Bibliography / References 12 Introduction The aim of this case study is to analyze how ZARA has achieved its success through various business strategies. In particular‚ we will focus on supply chain management the
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year. In addition‚ ZARA has more designers than competitors in order to create sophisticated and attractive products. b. Production ZARA prepares very limited volumes of new items to analyze customer’s reaction‚ lowering failure rates‚ approximately 1%‚ on new products. c. Marketing and Sales Central distribution centers control all of merchandise and ship twice a week to each retail store‚ which gives customer impressions of freshness of ZARA’s offering. In addition‚ ZARA limits production runs
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Zara Case Study Main Problems of the Company: Although it seems that the highly centralized distribution system that Inditex uses when it comes to Zara’s operations proves to be profitable and sustainable‚ in the long run in may lead to an impasse in several different directions for the clothing manufacturer. Sustainability of the Global Expansion: Although the centralized decision making reduces the whiplash effect on the overall supply chain‚ this strategy is not entirely without its drawbacks
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Introduction Zara is a fashion retailer established in 1975 by the Spanish group Inditex founded by Amancio Ortega Gaona. Inditex runs over more than 5400 stores worldwide and owns brands other than Zara such as Massimo Dutti‚ Breshka‚ Oysho‚ Pull and Bear and Stradivarius. Inditex headquarters
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Case Study: Zara: IT for Fashion Background Zara‚ high fashion clothing producer and retailer‚ opened its first store in Galicia‚ Spain in 1975‚ and by 2003‚ had grown to 550 stores worldwide. Zara is the largest holding of its mother company‚ Inditex‚ and is evaluating whether to invest in modernizing its IT infrastructure‚ specifically its in-store Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals which are running a DOS Operating System that is now EOL. Business Model Zara has a unique and very effective business
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Introduction In this case study it is identified how the well known textile company “Zara” keeps the inventory lowers than their competitors‚ and how that contributes to Zara’s success. Also in the case study are identified a few characteristics of Inventory Management and the advantage and disadvantages to keep the Inventory low. In the following paragraphs it is describe what mean Inventory Management and there are 5 significant reasons to maintenance an inventory‚ also Zara believes that Inventory
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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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