Fast Fashion: Achieving Global Quick Response (GQR) in the Internationally Dispersed Clothing Industry Bart L. MacCarthy and P.G.S.A. Jayarathne Abstract The clothing industry is one of the most mobile industries in the world. Global supply poses significant challenges in ensuring the right volume and mix of products within retail stores. Here we define a new concept – Global quick response (GQR) – which strives to combine the cost and scale efficiencies arising from sourcing globally with quick
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1. Zara profile Zara is the most internationalized of Inditex’s chains which owned by Spanish tycoon Amancia Ortega. The first Zara store opened in 1975 and there are more than 1‚500 Zara stores around the world until now. It is claimed that Zara needs just two weeks to develop a new product and get it to stores‚ compared with a six-month industry average‚ and launches around 10‚000 new design each year. Zara has resisted the industry –wide trend towards transferring fast fashion production to
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Zara Supply Chain Report By: A.H. C.L. H.L. S.H. X.W. Humble Beginnings In 1975‚ Amancio Ortea Gaona started Inditex Corporation in his first small shop in a remote town in Spain‚ Arteixo. Only 35 years later‚ it has emerged the largest apparel company in the world—Zara. Currently‚ Zara’s headquarters and two distribution centers are located in this small Spanish town. Zara broke a new path between the traditional high fashion and the mass fashion strategies; it provides
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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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Zara Thrives by Breaking All the Rules - BusinessWeek Page 1 of 2 INNOVATION October 9‚ 2008‚ 5:00PM EST Zara Thrives by Breaking All the Rules How the Spanish apparel chain gets new designs into stores in two weeks while keeping costs low by Kerry Capell ARTEIXO‚ SPAIN Many U.S. apparel retailers are choking on slow-moving inventories as consumers hold back on spending. But Spain’s Inditex‚ whose Zara chain pioneered cheap chic‚ is zipping ahead. The $13.8 billion company‚ which
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Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (SWOT) Analysis 9 III. Success Factors of ZARA 10 1. Fast Production 10 2. Use of Information Technology. 11 3. lower inventory 12 4. A centralized distribution system 12 5. Suppliers 12 IV. Issues and recommendations 13 1. Issues and Challenges: 14 2. Solutions& Recommendations: 16 V. Implementation and Road Map: 18 VI. Conclusion 20 VII. References: 21 I. INTRODUCTION 1. Company Background Zara is a Spanish brand of clothing founded by Amancio Ortega
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Zara is a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer‚ founded in 197 by Amancio Ortega. Zara has now became possibly the most innovative retailer in the world. By the end of the year 2011‚ Zara has reached 82 markets globally with a network of 1.830 stores. Zara’s secret of successful fast fashion business model is mostly about their responsive buyer driven supply chain. The customer plays an active role in the business model. Design and production activity begins with customer demand and retail
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chains: Zara‚ Bershka‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Pull and Bear‚ Stradivarius and Oysho were organized as separate business units‚ responsible for their own business strategies‚ product design and other activities. Nonetheless‚ coordination across the chains increased an expansion power of Inditex as the Group and induced the management to open some multichain locations (Gnemawat & Nueno‚ p. 8‚ 2006). Visionary management The founder of Inditex‚ Amancio Ortega is a person‚ who created the “fast-fashion” model
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Title Warehouse Inventory Management A Case Study in Retail Fashion Industry Company Name Zara International Objective for a warehouse management is fully utilize the space‚ improved the productivity of operations flow and reduce the inventory carrying cost. From the case of Zara‚ I found that they arranging the cross-dock rather then typical storage function. Because they have the commitment about the order fulfillment time from warehouse to stores‚ for examples 24 hours to European countries
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ZARA in Indian and Chinese market Zara is a very renowned brand for its latest designs and is among the top 100 best global brands in 2010 and its unusual strategy of zero advertising and instead invests the revenue in opening new stores across the world. The middle-aged mother buys clothes at Zara chain because they are cheap‚ while her daughter aged in the mid 20’s buys Zara clothing because it is fashionable. Clearly Zara is riding two of the winning retail trends firstly‚ being in fashion and
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