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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PLANT LAYOUT Plant layout is a plan of the most effective arrangement of the physical facilities and manpower for the manufacture of the product. Plant layout encompasses much more than the mere planning of the arrangement of the production equipment and should include a careful study of the following: 1. External transportation facilities. 2. Receiving operations (unloading‚ inspection‚ stores) 3. Production activities. 4. Service & auxiliary operations.
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ALLIANCE BUSINESS SCHOOL Facility Layout Project Alliance College Library Submitted to: Dr. Madhumita Mazumder Submitted by: Group 1 Aakanksha Agnihotri Anurag Agarwal Saloni Singh Smeet Patel Sushmita Chakraborty Yoga Moorthy 4/6/2009 CONTENTS Sl.No. Topic Page No. 1 Introduction 1 2 Service Layout 1-4 3 Library Service Layout 5 4 Library Layout Map Exhibits Analysis of Library Layout Recommendations 6-8 5 9-11 6 12 7 Conclusion
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Systematic Layout Planning 2nd World Conference on POM 15th Annual POM Conference Cancun‚ Mexico April 30 – May 3‚ 2004 James P. Gilbert‚ Ph.D. Professor of Operations Management and Quantitative Analysis Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business 1000 Holt Avenue Winter Park‚ Florida 32789 Office: 407-628-6375 FAX: 407-646-1550 jgilbert@rollins.edu Back to "Search By Author" Construction Office Design with Systematic Layout Planning Abstract Systematic Layout Planning
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Facility Layout Payless ShoeSource Operation Management -EMD Instructor: Dr. Hussein El Behery Aya Elsobky Index: i. Introduction 3 ii. Layout objectives 4 iii. The needs for layout decisions 4 iv. Factors affecting Layout 5 v. Layout types a. Product layout b. Process layout c. Fixed position layout d. Cellular layout (new) 6 - 9 vi. Conclusion 10 vii. Applying on case 11 viii. References 12 I. Introduction: In this paper we will be discussing
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F A C I L I T Y L AYO U T 187 Basic Production Layout Formats Process layout defined Product layout defined Group technology (cellular) layout defined Fixed-position layout defined 188 Process Layout Computerized layout techniques—CRAFT Systematic layout planning CRAFT defined Systematic layout planning (SLP) defined 193 Product Layout Assembly lines Assembly-line balancing Splitting tasks Flexible and U-shaped line layouts Mixed-model line balancing Current thoughts on assembly
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Basic layout types The chapter describes four basic layout types. Remember though‚ at the end of doing this the chapter does make the point that most layout types are hybrids of two or more of these four basic types. Nevertheless it is important to understand each of them so that their advantages and disadvantages can be identified. Fixed position layout Unusually‚ in a fixed position layout the resources travel to the product or customer rather than the other way round. Several examples are
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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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