billion in annual sales with the highest profit margin in the retailing industry. M & S is encountering some difficulties in logistics because it has lengthy logistics procedures forcing the retailer to order 9 months in advance. Competitors like Zara have very fast and efficient logistics with excellent lead time. Nimble competitors are offering low prices as well as achieving many deliveries per year of new fashion items. M&S decided to pursue a new strategy of improving their product appeal
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-APAYAO STATE COLLEGE (KASC) OF BULANAO CAMPUS Inventory system A Project Study Presented to The Faculty of Institute of Engineering‚ Information and Applied Technology Kalinga- Apayao State College‚ Bulanao Tabuk City‚ Kalinga In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements in the subject System Analysis and Design 2013 ACKNOWLEGEMENT Almighty and precious God has been awesome and so gracious to everyone through all the years of journey. To him‚ who always make all things possible and as we pursue
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Case: “Zara: IT for Fast Fashion” Student ID: U00235538 Issue Zara‚ the flagship chain of Spanish based holding company Inditex‚ has grown to great prominence in the international retail fashion industry. It has done so by advantage in recognizing and responding to changing fashion. Recognizing and quickly responding to the changes in fashion trends is largely achieved through a collaborative system of store managers and mid-management level commercials. The exponential growth of Zara
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Explain the data collected by Zara to predict the trend. What makes the middle aged mother to buy cloths in Zara while the daughter aged in mid 20s buys Zara clothing? Because it is fashion able and up to trend. By collecting data and focusing on shorter response times‚ the company ensures that its stores are able to carry clothes that the consumers want at that time. Zara can move from identifying a trend to having clothes in its stores within 30 days. That means Zara can quickly and catch a winning
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Case 2: Zara 1. What are the essential elements of Zara’s business model? The business idea of Zara is to link customer demand to manufacturing‚ and to link manufacturing to distribution. And based on this general idea‚ Zara has several essential elements for its business model. First‚ speed and decision making‚ which means that in the external level‚ Zara need to respond very quickly to demands of target customers‚ and always keep in style. While for the inside‚ Zara treasure intelligence
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CASE STUDY ANALYSIS ZARA: IT FOR FAST FASHION Introduction The success of Zara in apparel manufacturing and retail business started from their belief that customers taste in fashion is hard to predict. Zara’s strategic intent to respond quickly and accurately to the fastchanging market demand has become the basis in building their core competency of highly responsive supply chain. This supply chain enables Zara to quickly capture the unpredictable market demand‚ shorten the turnaround production
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Case Study # 1 – Zara / Due 10/13 – 10 pts / Professor Conrad Zara is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing apparel retailers‚ owing to a unique blend of business practices and an internal culture that many might say run “counter-intuitive” to those of competing U.S. retailers. More recently‚ however‚ industry analysts have started to suggest that the “fast fashion” business model that has made Zara so successful over the past decade has run its course and the very notion of disposable
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Inventory management : Inventory management Introduction : Introduction Inventory management is the system devised and adopted for controlling investment in inventory. The aim of inventory management is to attain a healthy balance between the cost of having inventory and the cost of not having inventory. Bad management of inventory may lead to overstocking or stock outs. Types of inventory : Types of inventory Direct inventories Raw material Work in Progress Finished goods Indirect inventories
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Receivables Turnover According to the table that shows Gamma turnover is 5.8 times and it’s mean Gamma collect his receivables about 5.8 times each year but alpha turnover is 1.4 times and it’s mean that alpha collect his receivables about 1.4 times each year. So‚ Gamma Corporation has higher proportion than Alpha Corporation and it shows that gamma corporation operates more efficiently with smoother cash flow and collects the money from the creditor easily and on the time. Also‚ that probably gathered
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