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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Radwan (4814940) Khouloud Ghazouani Meriam Afitou Nadeem Autumn 2014 Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION 3 1. Company Background 3 Vision and Mission 3 II. Situation Analysis: 5 1. The 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&
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UPS A Look into Quality Management By: Tiffani Coffey April Graves Daniel Cardwell Michael Carroll Russell Dean Jessica Gibson James E Casey or "Jim" established the American Messenger Company in 1907 after borrowing $100. The company then and still is based on the same principals‚ customer service and reliability. Over the years they have made a lot of changes from their making deliveries on bicycles to today air freight and world-wide service. Some of the innovations since their
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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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Suppose the Robinson Company had a cost of goods sold of $1‚000‚000 in 2010 and $1‚200‚000 in 2011. a. Calculate the inventory turnover for each year. Comment on your findings b. What would have been the amount of inventories in 2011 if the 2010 turnover ratio had been maintained? a. inventory turnover for 2010 =COGS/Inventory = $1‚000‚000/350‚000=2.857 inventory turnover for 2011 =COGS/Inventory = $1‚200‚000/500‚000=2.4 b. $1‚200‚000 /inventory =2.857 Inventory in 2011 to maintain 2010
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Q1a. Should the company upgrade the POS terminals to a modern operating system? It might not be in the retailer’s best interest to perform such upgrade‚ as the new system will replace three of the existing legacy systems in terms of ordering and fulfillment. The IS department will perceive such upgrade as a radical move and is expected to show high resistance in response to it. Even though Zara has a decentralized decision making process‚ the retailer’s IS department exercises absolute autonomy
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Supply Chain Management – Case Assignment 2 Guidelines for submission The questions in this document should be answered for the Zara case‚ which can be found on pages 267 – 279 of the text book. The questions on page 294 should NOT be answered. Please keep your answers concise and to the point. Include the numbering of the questions. You are allowed to use bullet points. Use MS Word‚ 12 point font size‚ standard margins for A4 paper. Start the document with your student number and name on
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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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Question No1.Advantages of responsive supply chain of Zara? A responsive supply chain of Zara works collaboratively among the stakeholders to exchange information in a feedback loop in order to produce enough of a product to satisfy uncertain demand. Zara has greater visibility into the supply chain which makes it responsive to the current market. This allows Zara to sense and respond quickly to capitalize on new opportunities. The information systems are the heart of the business model which enables
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operates its stores as mass discount retailers‚ carrying between 60‚000 and 90‚000 different merchandise items in each store. Wal-Mart purchases more than $22 billion in merchandise‚ turning its inventory over as often as 4.5 times per year. Sam Club carries between 3‚500 and 5‚000 different merchandise items‚ acquiring more than $2.6 billion in merchandise. Wal Marts operations grew from 2003 to 2005. For example‚ the number of Wal-Mart stores increased and the number of Sam’s stores increased. WalMart
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