Part 1: Executive Summary The current POS system has shown to be successful for Zara‚ however‚ Zara’s IT strategy does not reflect the strategic approach its supply chain has. As Zara’s supply chain is designed to be ahead of its competitors‚ its IT system has fallen behind the crowd. Zara has continued to upgrade its PDA devices but not its technological infrastructure in which it has built its success on. As the head of IT for Inditex I need your‚ Bruno Sanchez’s‚ serious consideration as Inditex’s
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Zara Case Analysis Environmental Analysis: Zara’s primary threat is rivalry in the apparel retailing market. Retail spending on clothing and apparel in 2000 was approximately 900 billion worldwide. This market has been described as a buyer driven market. The GAP (U.S.)‚ H&M (Sweden)‚ and Benetton (Italy) all compete internationally with Inditex‚ owner of Zara and five other apparel retailing chains. Zara contrasts the buyer driven market model as usually exists in the apparel retailing
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A channel of distribution can be defined as the collection of organizational units‚ institutions‚ or agencies within or external to the manufacturer‚ which perform the functions that support product marketing. The marketing functions are pervasive: they include buying‚ selling‚ transporting‚ storing‚ grading‚ financing‚ bearing market risk‚ and providing marketing information. Any organizational unit‚ institution‚ or agency that performs one or more of the marketing functions is a member of a channel
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Assessment Task 4 BSBRSK501A Manage risk Prompt questions 1. What are three ways that research can be conducted for risk-related issues‚ and for each way‚ briefly describe how it may be done. Qualitative analysis may be useful as an initial screening to identify if further analyse of risk is required‚ when the analysis is appropriate for decisions‚ when numerical data or resources are inadequate. Semi-quantitative analysis sets values to the risks in order to produce a more
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Competitors’ customers Even though Zara can survive with the highest market share in the clothing market‚ still there are those competitors out there that Zara might gain more of their customers if it applied new marketing strategies . There’ 4 main competitors that the company should consider‚ including H&M‚ Mango‚ Uniqlo and Gap. For H&M ‚it has the customers that are mostly similar to Zara which mostly are women that are into fashionable clothes‚ want to follow the trends but are more price-conscious
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Zara case Zara uses a vertically integrated system (VMS): In this system‚ wholesalers‚ retailers and distributors work as a unified system. One channel owns the others. They have a corporate VMS system‚ because Zara has managed to build a system that is controlled from the headquarters and it allows a quick response to decide and solve problems. Inditex‚ Zara’s parent company owns most of the resources to design‚ produce and distribute. Recommendations: Instead of doing everything themselves
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(I) INTRODUCTION A channel of distribution or trade channel is defined as the path or route along which goods move from producers or manufacturers to ultimate consumers or industrial users. In other words‚ it is a distribution network through which producer puts his products in the market and passes it to the actual users. This channel consists of :- producers‚ consumers or users and the various middlemen like wholesalers‚ selling agents and retailers(dealers) who intervene between the producers
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Reese’s Distribution channels Introduction Any product or service in the marketplace utilizes distribution channels to reach its customers. Although the manufacturers and services providers can and do provide their goods and services directly‚ utilizing distribution channels multiplies the number of goods and services that reach the marketplace (Advameg‚ Inc‚ 2011). Therefore‚ distribution channels can increase market share and profit margins since these distribution channels help the company’s
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Q 1.: What is unique about Zara’s business model? Zara has proved to be a maverick of its time it came at a time that the apparel industry was fragmented there was no integration‚ the costs incurred were enormous it was highly labor-intensive leading to outsourcing to save on costs and the business model prevalent was not proving to be highly successful as compared to the models of other industries. In came Zara and showed that strategic imperatives depended on how a retailer sought to create and
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El Paso and gradually built a customer base throughout Texas. A distribution center was established in Ft. Worth‚ Texas later‚ as business expanded to the north; a second distribution center was established in Santa Fe‚ New Mexico. The El Paso plant was expanded when the company began marketing its meters in Arizona‚ California‚ Nevada‚ and Utah. With the growth of the West Coast business‚ the Darby Company opened a third distribution center in Las Vegas and just two years ago opened a second production
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