1. What drove the sourcing decisions on the part of all three business organizations described in the case studies for this session? Business Reasons Behind Sourcing Decision Southwest Bank - outsourcing Devote more time and effort into research & development Allow an expert to specialize in IT needs Lower the cost of IT Focus on and excel in core business processes Reliable Utilities - partnering Over all need for staff to deploy and maintain mapping systems Need for partner that could dispatch
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2) For the global fashion apparel industry explain key dominant features and industry driving forces. Outline Zara’s strategies for leveraging this. Industry overview: The global fashion apparel industry is one of the most important sectors of the economy in terms of investment‚ revenue‚ and trade and employment generation all over the world. Some of its major contributors are: Significant consolidation in retail Increasing use of electronic commerce in retail Wholesale trade The
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Traditional sourcing of production to third party suppliers has the benefit of being more cost efficient and the VF choses between a numbers of suppliers in different locations based on labor and transportation costs‚ tariffs and trade quotas. Suppliers functioned on razor-thin margins‚ which made them invest little in new technology and productivity improvement of the product process. If they were to encounter technical issues or problems‚ they generally added more labor or scheduled overtime.
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The Principles of Merchandising The past decade has witnessed sea change in the world of retail‚ of which increasing competition is just one aspect. New and emerging technologies and customers fragmentation has made it even more difficult for retailers to retain consumers who are loyal to their stores. Walters and Hanharan have identified four key elements of the strategic direction that are retailer may take‚ they are: * Merchandise strategy; * Communications strategy; * Customer service
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An Internship Report on “Merchandising Management -A Case study on KUN SOURCING LTD. (a buying house)” Table of Contents | | |Page No. | | |Letter of submission | | | |Certification
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Chapter I Merchandising –Introduction‚ role‚ functions‚ types Mrs. Manju is on a visit to the neighborhood store. It sells a variety of daily essentials. She asked for jam. The merchant in the store brought it to her from the shelf at the back of the counter. She paid the bill and left the store with the bottle of jam. We notice that the merchant sold merchandise – “jam” to Mrs. Manju. If the jam is in the store‚ Mrs. Manju will not know of its existence. She is aware of it only when the merchant
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and Yohji Yamamoto were among the first non-western designers to be included in the official world of fashion since the revolution of the first Paris show in 1981 Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto appeared in. (Teunissen‚ 2005) While Western dressmaking focussed on showing the natural shape of the human body‚ “by contrast‚ Japanese designers creations shrouded the body.” (Fukai 2005:22) Fashion in the West has mainly been based on creating the ideal silhouette and body shape through clothing.
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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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Types of Merchandising: Two type of merchandising done in garment exports 1. Marketing merchandising. 2. Product merchandising. MarketingMerchandising: Main function of marketing merchandising is 1. Product Development 2. Costing Ordering Marketing merchandising is to bring orders costly products development and it has direct contact with the buyer. Product Merchandising: Product merchandising is done in the unit. This includes all the responsibilities from sourcing to finishing i.e. first sample
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Global Fashion Giants: Gucci and Louis Vuitton In order to understand the key success factors required for any fashion powerhouse to succeed in the global scenario‚ we decided to look at two of the world’s largest fashion conglomerates – Gucci and Louis Vuitton. We looked at the evolution of these companies and also at the different strategies these companies have employed over time to achieve the position in the world fashion market they have today. This analysis helped us in figuring out the feasibility
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