Zara : IT for Fast Fashion Zara is a leading brand in the fashion retail industry. It is a vertically integrated retailer‚ a pioneer of the Just-In-Time Inventory system. It becomes important to define the critical success factors for this industry in the analysis presented through the following three questions: 1. How can you differentiate Zara’s use of IT? Technology investment should be targeted at the points in the value chain where the impact is most significant. If we look at the value
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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 on the IT infrastructure and design. The fact that “only one person had left the department” in the past 10 years further confirms that the retailer is suffering from cognitive and action inertia‚ and thus creating a huge barrier for such upgrade. Nevertheless‚ Zara should still perform such upgrade in the long run. Q1b. Should
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3.1 HISTORY and BACKGROUND ZARA is the flagship chain store for the Spanish Inditex Group owned by Amancio Ortega‚ who also brands such as Massimo Dutti and Bershka. It was first open in 1975 in La Coruna‚ Galicia‚ Spain. Originally a lingerie store‚ then the product range expanded to incorporate women’s fashion‚ menswear and children’s clothes (5). The international adventure began in 1988‚ opened its first foreign store in Oporto‚ Portugal. The market growth remained mysterious and it kept growing
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Question: Identify the corporate strategy of the clothing retailer Zara and discuss how the five operations performance objectives support Zara’s corporate strategy. In addition explain the external benefits of these five objectives. Words: 2597 ZARA INTRODUCTION Zara is Spanish clothing and accessories retailer part of the holding group Inditex which is one of the world’s largest fashion groups. At the close of 2012‚ Zara had 1‚925 stores in its eight sales formats in 86 markets in five
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Porter Analysis of the Zara Fashion Chain The Zara fashion chain‚ with 546 stores in 30 countries today ?from which 340 are outside Spain- and ?2914‚3 millions of total sales in 2002‚ is undoubtedly the group?s locomotive (Inditex‚ 2003). In 2002 it represented 33% of the group?s total stores‚ accounted for 72% of the group?s total sales and contributed to the holding?s total profits for ?540.4 millions (Inditex FY2002 Results Presentation‚ 2003). Moreover‚ Zara with 75-90 new stores within 2003
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Contents Full Bibliographic Reference 2 What is RFID 2 Introduction 4 Superiorities and Costs of RFID 5 Supply Chain for Consumer Goods 6 Benefits and Challenges of RFID 7 RFID Integration with Supply Chain Management System 8 Conclusion and Further Research 10 General Critique 11 References 12 Full Bibliographic Reference The journal review is done based on a working paper done by researchers from Dogus University‚ Turkish Atomic Energy Authority Cekmece Nuclear Research and Training
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functions comes greater and more abstract implementations. RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) tags are a prime example of an abstract implementation of technology. These devices have been used for tracking the past‚ but they have other capabilities like storing information and analyzing variables. RFID tags have been around for many years; however‚ not until recently has the thought of applying these devices to modern living come to play. RFID tags can and have enabled the possibilities of tracking
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t the M9-606-053 REV: APRIL 1‚ 2009 ZEYNEP TON VINCENT DESSAIN MONIKA STACHOWIAK-JOULAIN RFID at the METRO Group In early 2004‚ the METRO Group (Metro)‚ Germany’s biggest retailer‚ announced its upcoming radio frequency identification (RFID) technology rollout at 250 stores and 10 warehouses‚ in collaboration with 100 suppliers. The news echoed throughout the retailing community. Previous similar announcements by Wal-Mart and Tesco had made it clear that some in the industry believed that
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RFID Technology “Real Time GPS System for a University Using RFID” FOR SUBMISSION OF Research Practice March/April 2013 SUBMITTED BY KRITIKA RATHORE 2012H112196P Literature Review RFID is a generic term for technologies that use radio wave to automatically identify individual items. RFID is a technology that allows data transfer between tags and readers without the necessity of line of light over a distance of up to a couple of 10 m depending on the type of tag used. For RFID system
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RFID in Pharmaceutical Industry In 2004‚ US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has called for the implementation of RFID technology to track the distribution of prescription drugs in order to protect the medical supply chain from counterfeit drugs by 2007. Initially‚ California State Board of Pharmacy has mandated RFID technology but later extended implementation date until 2015. In 2007‚ Kalorama Information predicted in a report that market for RFID solutions in pharmaceutical industry would
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