Zara: Case questions 1. Coordination of a supply chain is always important. However‚ such efforts are usually initiated by certain parties. For the global apparel industry‚ would it be more suitable for downstream or upstream parties to be the driver of the coordination? Motivate your answer with the use of two important characteristics of the apparel industry. 2. Clearly Zara has a strong relationship with all parties within the supply chain. a) Which of the following retailer-supplier relationships
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What is Zara value proposition to customers? How is Zara’s Supply Chain helping this value proposition? Zara is able to sell fashionable clothing to consumers. It can quickly respond to consumer trends and bring garments to market that follow trends in the local market. This concept of “fast fashion” allows trends to move from catwalk/conception to retail location quickly‚ in some instances in just a few weeks. It also affords these fashionable items at reasonable prices. Consumers therefore look
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The ZARA: Fast Fashion case. 1. Create a diagram that illustrates the linkages among Zahra’s competitive choices. Firstly‚ everything is connected through centralized hubs. Zara has its main operations in Spain‚ but with each expansion into a new country‚ that country has its own centralized Zara facility. This allows for local factors to be considered in each market‚ but gives Zara an excellent line of communication and ultimate control of all operations. The in-house designs are sourced this
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Case Study; Improper Planning and Readiness INTRODUCTION This case study takes place in an office setting in ABC Inc. We’re a young man name Carol Robins has been given a task by his boss Monica Carrolls to hire 15 new recruits. He was given a list of different task and planning to get done before June15. Carol was a young and not experience enough on how to accomplish the task he needed to get done. PROBLEM AND KEY ISSUES One of the first problems is when Monica Carrolls gave
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CASE STUDY CLOSING CASE: “PLANNING FOR THE CHEVY VOLT” 1. What does the Chevy Volt case tell you about the nature of strategic decision making at a large complex organization like GM? The Chevy Volt case tells me the nature of the strategic decision making at a large complex organization like GM can be difficult and challenging due to having to convince other managers to agree with the ideas for new strategies. In the case it states that the two persons‚ GM’s vice chairman and the head
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and discussion As complete as possible‚ sketch the supply chain for Zara from raw materials to consumer purchase. Raw material – High tech automated cutting facilities – Small workshops – Ware houses – Stores – customers – Stores – Commercial managers Raw material Zara makes 40 percent of its own fabrics and produces more than half of its own clothes (maximize time efficiency) Cuts fabric in-house As it completes designs‚ Zara cuts fabric in-house. The cutting is done in Zara’s own high-tech
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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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INTRODUCTION OF THE PROJECT: The work done in SIP was related to Production planning and control and was also related to reduction in manufacturing throughput time for a special purpose machine MD-1985(H50). Planning and control is used to make decisions on the procurement‚allocation and utilization of production resources to satisfy customer’s requirements from the machine . The ultimate objective of production planning and control is to contribute to the profits of the company. As with inventory
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Case Study on the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Planning & Capacity Department and its importance in the Aviation Industry Module: Operations and Quality Management (MGT 6383) Year: 2012 Executive Summary The Airport Planning and Capacity is a department of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which is the National Aviation Authority of the United States. The FAA has the authority to monitor and regulate all aspects of civil aviation in the United States. The Airport
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Diploma of Financial Services (FP) Case Study It is November‚ 2010. You are an authorised representative of a full-service licensed dealer group‚ Azza Financial Services Pty Ltd. Allison and Simon Callahan have come in to see you to ask for your assistance to plan out their next five years and then help them settle into retirement. Allison (aged 54) and Simon (aged 52) have been married for 29 years and live at Lot 3 Wattle Road‚ Hurstbridge‚ Vic. Their only child
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