4. PART 1 To conduct research and analyze the Effectiveness of the promotional tools and techniques & physical surroundings (situational factors) used at Future Lifestyle Fashion Limited (In-Store) to influence buying behavior. 4.1 PROBLEM STATEMENT There are various Promotional tools available in-order to increase sale as-well as to clear stock on regular basis in order to replenish the store with new arrivals. The choice of tools have to be appropriate considering the demographic aspects of the
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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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MapReduce is a widely used parallel computing framework for large scale data processing. The two major performance metrics in MapReduce are job execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been
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Zara Group Case I.1 Question 1: Which theory is the best representative of Zara’s (Inditex’s) internationalization? The Uppsala model is the best representative of Zara’s internationalization. The Uppsala model is a theory that explains how firms gradually intensify their activities in foreign markets. The key features of the Uppsala model is the following: firms first gain experience from the domestic market before they move to foreign markets. After that firms start their foreign operations from
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The case of Zara: a supposed exception to globalization The article written by Nebath Tokatli is about the case of Zara‚ a fast fashion retailer company supposed to be an exception to the global trend of this sector. The author‚ after a brief introduction in which she declares her purpose to demonstrate this idea to be false‚ starts describing the change in the culture of fashion from “houte couture” and ready-to-wear too fast fashion. Fast fashion retailers do not directly invest in design
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CASE STUDY UPS COMPETES GLOBALLY WITH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY What are the inputs‚ processing‚ and outputs of UPS’s package tracking system? Inputs: The inputs of UPS’s package tracking system include package information picked up from “smart label”. The tracking system also include customer signature‚ pickup‚ delivery information by using hand held DIADs. The package tracking system also input the information about the current location (while en route) of the package and billing and customer
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POM – Case Application - Fast – Forwarding Blockbuster Q1. Ans) Principles of scientific management involves the “one best way” of doing a job. The emergence of Netflix had brought down the sales of blockbuster DVD stores. The following scientific management principles could be applied to enhance the popularity and sales of block buster stores: * Arrangement and alignment of DVDs according to the taste and preference of the customers. Those DVDs to be in the front rows and easily accessible
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1) What caused the existing system at ETO to fail? This system was based on the assumption that direct costs and overhead are consumed in the same proportion for all product testing. However‚ this is not the case and therefore the system failed. For example‚ due to the implementation of the vendor certification and the just-in-time delivery‚ some products are already tested and do not need any further tests‚ and ETO faces a decreasing number of the tests performed. On the other hand‚ new components
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Business Law Sample CASE STUDY SITUATION GO FAST is a motorcycle manufacturer in the southern United States. Though sales have been steady‚ profits have declined because of increasing operational costs. The Board of Directors felt a fresh look at the operations side was needed. They developed a 5-year plan to increase operating efficiency and set out to find someone to lead the effort. Four months ago‚ GO FAST found what they saw as “the person” to be the new operations director and develop a
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means Gamuda’s business slowdown‚ it appears that Gamuda’s stock is too high and may be piling up and not sold. Gamuda having difficulty selling it large holding of inventory and cause the cash is being tied down in stocks. On the other side‚ due to fast-moving inventory‚ Muhibbah has problem shortage of inventory available for sale. To cover this problem‚ Gamuda should make sure its stock always at appropriate levels and also investigate methods of lowering cost of goods sold. For example‚ Gamuda
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