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 relation between suppliers and retailers
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1. Features of Zara’s business model that affect its operating economics: • Zara owns much of its production and most of its stores‚ while competitors Gap and H&M own all of their stores but outsource all of their production. Benetton‚ on the other hand‚ owns all of its production but goes to market through licensing agreements. • Zara places more emphasis on backward vertical integration. Production runs are short and inventory is strictly controlled. This is in contrast to industry trends
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Simulation game (Beer Distribution Game) to understand the actions of simple and widely use of this system in the Supply Chain Management (SCM). The Beer Game was developed in the 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School of Management (Sterman‚1989; Senge‚1992)‚ it has been successful to attract the attention of SCM practitioners and academics. The layout of the Beer Distribution Game (BDG) is illustrated in figure 1 below. Figure 1 Beer Distribution Game Layout
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------------------------------------------------- Tourism and Travel Distribution: the Travel Agent’s Perspective By Dr Marion Bennett and Dr Dimitrios Buhalis‚ Centre for eTourism Research (CeTR)‚ School of Management‚ University of Surrey‚ Guildford Jan 2003 Summary The Internet has revolutionised the tourism industry and has generated a number of challenges and opportunities for all players. For travel agents‚ in particular‚ the Internet is changing the industry structure and consumer behaviour
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my organization is ZARA. Based in La Coruna‚ Spain‚ Zara is Inditex’s main brand‚ (Fashion Forward -The Economist‚ 2012). Founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega Zara now has stores in 73 countries. With estimated annual revenue in excess of 7 billion Euro‚ Zara has over 1700 stores worldwide‚ (Wikipedia‚ 2013). Zara has been described by Louis Vuitton fashion director as “possibly the most innovative and devastating retailer in the world”‚ (Wikipedia‚ 2013). WHY ZARA? I have used 4 suggested
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of products is required? 4 4. Sony prefers direct dealing and distribution to its customers or through dealers? 1. 5. Which is the most important parameter for Sony out of the following? 5 a.Reduced Waiting time b.Choise to the consumer c.Place utility d.After Sale service support 6. Does your organization have any specific resource/working post to manage only channel flow for your organizations distribution network? 6 7. From the past experience/knowledge from your organization
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Sharuque Amin HRTM 4280 Domestic and International Tourism Dr. Aixa Ritz A tourism distribution channel is a process or an operating structure‚ system or linkage which brings forth the products of the producer travel organizations and puts it into the market through a chain that sells to the travellers. (Goeldner & Ritchie‚ 2012) This chain is very similar to the normal market distribution process in which the producer produces the product and ships it to the wholesalers and then the wholesalers
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Sales and Distribution Questionnaire Sales and Distribution Questionnaire Instructions This questionnaire is a tool that you can use to collect information about your business that will be useful for tailoring the R/3 System to your business needs. You will need Microsoft Word for Windows to work with this document. Enter your answers in the fields after the questions‚ using the TAB key to move from field to field. You may save and later change your answers in this questionnaire just as you would
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Established 2 0 0 0 Midlands State ‚ University FACULTY OF COMMERCE DEPARTMENT OF MARKETING MANAGEMENT AN EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF INDIRECT DISTRIBUTION ON COMPANY SALES. CASE STUDY OF TRANSACTION PAYMENT SOLUTIONS By ST A N LEY ITA Y I TA SIY A N A R0645378 SUPERVISOR: MR. NJOVO TH IS D ESSERTA TIO N IS SUBM ITTED TO THE D EPARTM ENT OF M ARK ETING M A N A G EM EN T IN PARTIAL FULFILM EN T OF THE REQ U IREM EN TS OF TH E B A C H ELO R OF CO M M ERCE IN M ARK ETING M AN A G EM EN T (H O
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0959-6119.htm Online distribution strategies and competition: are the global hotel companies getting it right? Gabriel Gazzoli ´ Institut Hotelier Cesar Ritz‚ Le Bouveret‚ Switzerland Online distribution strategies 375 Received 25 May 2007 Revised 3 July 2007 Accepted 18 October 2007 Woo Gon Kim International Center for Hospitality Research‚ Florida State University‚ Tallahassee‚ Florida‚ USA
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