Supply Chain Management – Case Assignment 2 Guidelines for submission The questions in this document should be answered for the Zara case‚ which can be found on pages 267 – 279 of the text book. The questions on page 294 should NOT be answered. Please keep your answers concise and to the point. Include the numbering of the questions. You are allowed to use bullet points. Use MS Word‚ 12 point font size‚ standard margins for A4 paper. Start the document with your student number and name on
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Zara is one of the largest international fashion companies which belongs to the Inditex Group operating in textile design‚ manufacturing and distribution. Inditex is known to be the most successful fashion retailers in the world. The Inditex Group is made up of more than one hundred different companies which each have helped gain the success of the group. The Fashion Companies owned by the group include Pull and Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius and Zara being its Flagship chain store. The
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Research papers Zara : A. Clearance Pricing Optimization for a Fast-Fashion Retailer Summary: The research paper ‘Clearance Pricing Optimization for a Fast-Fashion Retailer’ talks about how Zara has increased its clearance revenues by approximately 6% by following a price optimization model. Zara uses minimal in-season promotions and offer continuous changing styles. However they were facing clearance pricing problem because it involved comparatively more different styles of unsold inventory
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Running head: Zara Case Paper Analysis 1 Zara: IT for Fast Fashion Case Analysis Sonal Bhagwat University of Houston-Victoria MGMT 6352-2011FA-25125 November 2011 Zara Case Paper Analysis 2 Table of Contents: • Abstract 3 • Case Description 4 • Goals and Strategy 5 - Speed and Decision-making 5 - Marketing‚ Merchandising‚ and Advertising 6 - Information Technology 6 • Problem Analysis Firm-based-value chain model
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CASE STUDY: - ZARA: IT FOR FAST FASHION Zara’s success is attributed to its ingenious design‚ development‚ and production and supply chains in the world. It has been its culture to change its designs very frequently. This is mainly because they feel their differentiation point in the market is its new designs. Short-cycle production of small volumes of items has made Zara fundamentally different from other competitors. Zara has a short lead time and is more responsive to market trend. Salgado
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El Caso Zara Dirección de Marketing – Universidad de Valladolid Isabel Gamazo Sara Granero Raúl Canal Álvaro Zubizarreta Objetivos Describir el entorno en el que se desarrolla la actividad de Zara. Examinar el comportamiento y las motivaciones de los consumidores en el mercado de la moda actual. Estudiar las características del mercado de la moda y comprender como lo aborda la empresa: Segmentación Posicionamiento Diferenciación Comprender el entorno competitivo de la empresa. Analizar la
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Threats - ZARA Some threats that affect ZARA include international expansion‚ geographic scope‚ and intense competition. Zara recognizes that the company needs to have a competitive advantage in order to survive‚ so they are constructing a second distribution centre in Zaragoza. Also the company is still looking to expand internationally. Expanding in Spain is difficult for the company because of past experience in Sweden. Zara is considering expansion in North America‚ but is concerned that it
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Inditex From: FT 75782136 Subject: Analysis of Problems affecting Zara Date: 2003 Summary Zara is the flagship retail brand of Inditex group and represented 78% of the total revenue generated in the year 1999. The Inditex group has 1080 stores worldwide out of which 64.1% stores in Spain contributed 48% of revenues and the remaining 35.9% stores located in foreign markets contributed 52% revenues in the Year 2001. Out of all the labels of Inditex‚ Zara has been the major contributor of revenue
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CASO: ZARA IT FOR FAST FASHION L OS P ROBLEMAS • Existe una indecisión por parte de los encargados en el área de sistemas en la empresa ya que hay diferentes puntos de vista sobre si se mantiene el sistema actual de ventas o se implementa uno nuevo. A continuación se mencionan algunos de estos puntos de vista. En caso de dejar el sistema actual: o Se utilizara tecnología obsoleta en las tiendas‚ la cual puede llegar a perder el soporte técnico ya que el único proveedor de esta tecnología puede
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The role of market orientation on company performance through the development of sustainable competitive advantage: the Inditex-Zara case Andres Mazaira  University of Vigo‚ Oureuse‚ Spain E. Gonzalez  University of Vigo‚ Oureuse‚ Spain Ruth Avendano Ä University of Vigo‚ Oureuse‚ Spain Keywords Market orientation‚ Competitive advantage‚ Clothing industry‚ Organizational culture Abstract This paper has been developed as a part of research seeking to verify the effects of organisational
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