Brief Summary of Zara 2 How would you advise Salgado to proceed on the issue of upgrading Zara’s POS systems? 3 - Should the company upgrade the POS terminals to modern operating system? 3 - Should the company build in-store networks? 4 - Should the company give employees the ability to look up inventory balances for items in their own stores? 4 - Should the company give employees the ability to look up inventory balances for items in their other stores? 4 What is the Zara “business model”
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TYPICAL PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE • Sales decreases as the product moves over the timeline ZARA PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE • High fashion industry with latest designs and trends 5-6 weeks life cycle • The life cycle curves is shown as the graph above ZARA’S KEY FACTORS SHORT LEAD TIME LOWER QUANTITIES MORE STYLES • Keep up with the newest fashion trends more fashionable clothes • Zara only needs about 30 days to identify new trend and have the product available in stores
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Developing a Performance Appraisal System A performance appraisal is one of the most important factors in any organization and can be one of the greatest tools used to record employee production. Every organization has to have goals and objectives established and the employee has to be involved in this process. By conducting performance appraisal will improve productivity and also the morale of the employees. Appraisals are
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STAFF TRAINING AND INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE IN NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY FUND (NSSF) UGANDA A CASE STUDY OF NSSF HEADQUARTERS‚ KAMPALA BY MWEBAZE HENRY 2010/AUG/DAY/B.BA/B7066 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE AWARD OF BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (ACCOUNTING) OF NKUMBA UNIVERSITY‚ ENTEBBE‚ UGANDA. OCTOBER 2013 DECLARATION I‚ Mwebaze Henry‚ declare that this research report
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CURRENT SITUATION Goal: ZARA’S goal is to respond quickly and accurately to shifting costumer demands. In order to do this ZARA establish 3 processes. 1. Ordering: Every store places an order twice a week to La Coruña. The order includes replenishment of existing items and initial request for newly items. • The store manager determines the replenishment items‚ walking around the store and counting the garments and talking with sales people. THEY CAN NOT LOOK UP THE INVENTORY BALANCE
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This case revolves around the performance evaluation process at Citibank and the introduction of a new performance scorecard. The meeting is between the President of Citibank‚ California and his management to discuss the performance evaluation and bonus decisions for James McGaran‚ the star performer of the branch James career with Citibank has been a quick progression through the ranks from the assistant branch manager to the manager position. His performance exceeded expectations in every single
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INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT 1. What makes Zara different from other specialty apparel retailers? What are the main differences in the business models of Zara and H&M? Zara’s greatest strength and at the same time the difference from other specialty apparel retailers lies in its supply chain ‚ which allows Zara to turn over new styles in a fraction of the time ( three weeks ) it takes conventional retailers. It is interesting how the two leading fashion retailers ( Zara and H&M ) have totally opposite
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Tesco 1.0 Employee Performance Whilst motivation is key to getting Tesco’s employees to work as hard as they possibly can‚ Tesco can only find out how hard employees are working if they measure their performance. Employee Performance Management is a process for establishing a shared workforce understanding about what is to be achieved at an organisation level. It is about aligning the organisational objectives with the employees’ agreed measures‚ skills‚ competency requirements‚ development
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HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING USING FPGA Abstract-This paper describes how FPGA is compatible for the High Performance Computing System. In this paper High performance computing systems using FPGAs and FPGA use models are described. I. Introduction Due to high application demand conventional processors are unable to deliver desired performance. So hardware acceleration is required to meet high performance. This is done by parallel computing and by connecting application specification
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Strength Brand Zara is one of the famous national costume brands. There are about 2000 chain store at about 50 countries‚ and it be evaluated the most research value brand in the Europe. Zara has big potential development ability in the future Amount of clothing styles Zara always produced about 20 thousand kinds of styles clothes every year‚ so it gives some selections to different customers. Zara always give a fashion and strange feeling to customers. More selections and follow fashion
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