Case Study: Zara: IT for Fashion Background Zara‚ high fashion clothing producer and retailer‚ opened its first store in Galicia‚ Spain in 1975‚ and by 2003‚ had grown to 550 stores worldwide. Zara is the largest holding of its mother company‚ Inditex‚ and is evaluating whether to invest in modernizing its IT infrastructure‚ specifically its in-store Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals which are running a DOS Operating System that is now EOL. Business Model Zara has a unique and very effective business
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ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to use supply management as a tool in analysing the global sourcing processes and activities within two successful leading textile companies: Zara and Hennes and Mauritz (H&M). To describe their logistics and supply chain processes in order to understand how these two companies can add a good value to its customers‚ to its stakeholders and to its suppliers. Pressure for companies to create and deliver value to customers manifests itself in every stage of
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Introduction UNIQLO was a Japanese apparel brand under UNIQLO Co.‚ Ltd established in 1974. They offered “MADE FOR ALL” high quality causal wear at competitive price. The firm had earned a huge success and high reputation. They were starting online businesses in 2000 and stepped forward outside Japan‚ in 2001 opening their first oversea outlets in London UK. As international brand‚ UNIQLO set up their design studio for own products development next year. As of August 2011‚ UNIQLO international had
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Case Report: Zara – Fast Fashion Group #10 David Aparicio‚ Steven Hurley‚ Jonathan Williams‚ & Arjun Yadav 1 External Environment Analyses 1.1 Analysis of General Environment and Driving Forces The designer apparel environment is influenced by different segments of the external environment such as demographic‚ socio-cultural‚ economic‚ political‚ technological‚ global‚ and physical forces. The designer apparel industry spans globally and is highly competitive among different rivals. It is very
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Inditex’s relative operating economics? Its relative capital efficiency? Even though H&M follows a strategy which differs significantly from Inditex’s approach it is the closest competitor from the financial point of view. H&M differs from Zara because it outsources all of the production‚ it is more price oriented and spends more money on advertising. But both companies are based in Europe‚ are fashion forward at lower price retailers‚ and have a strong international expansion strategy. Exhibit
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1218 This essay will introduce a well-known fashion brand‚ ZARA‚ and illustrate the underlying factors in the current success of its company. Meanwhile‚ it will also evaluate ZARA’s prospective development and provide possible strategic suggestions. Established in 1963‚ Inditex group is one of the largest fashion retailers‚ welcoming customers at its eight store formats -Zara‚ Pull & Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho‚ Zara Home and Uterqüe - boasting 5.618 stores in 84 markets across
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Zara – Solutions: Zara is a world famous Retail Chain based in Spain and is extremely successful in their supply chain. Questions: 1. What is Zara’s Business Model and its unique Supply Chain strategy? Zara’s business model can be broken down into three basic components: concept‚ capabilities‚ and value drivers. Concept is to maintain design‚ production‚ and distribution processes that will enable Zara to respond quickly to shifts in consumer demands. Capabilities: Zara maintains
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growing pressure to deliver ten collections a year. Zara and H&M both are leading companies in retail clothing industry. Although both of them are fast fashion brands‚ they adopt different sourcing approaches. In fast fashion principle‚ new products will be offered to the market within two to four weeks. Therefore‚ the sourcing of products in the supply chain management plays an important role to facilitate the global delivery of products. Zara sources fabric and other raw materials from external
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1-page case summary Zara is one of the world most famous bands in the clothing industry‚ pioneering by offering fashionable items manufactured quickly at reasonable price (“fast-fashion” segment)‚ which was supported by an unmatched capability to complete production up to store delivery in a 3 weeks cycle – compared to the average 6 months of luxury brands. The chain of fashion stores is the first brand developed in 1975 by the entrepreneur Armancio Ortega Goana‚ founder of Inditex‚ now one of
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Management of Spanish Retailer Zara – Essay Sample Fashion is a fluid concept. To understand the concepts of management in fashion retail‚ it is vital to understand the multifaceted nature of business. For retailers‚ there is more to the process than sales and high fashion. Those who seek a good example of the benefits of an efficient supply chain can find an excellent example in the Zara Corporation. The concept of fast fashion has been made possible because of technology and an understanding of
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