1. As completely as possible‚ sketch the supply chain for Zara from raw materials to consumer purchase. First of all‚ a designer team in Arteixo‚ Spain sketches out the new styles and clothe lines. It does so after consulting with ‘commercials’ (the term for people who act as connection among the designers and the chain’s 2‚800 global store managers). After that‚ the designer team decides which fabrics offer the best combination of fashion‚ quality and price. Then they electronically send the
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CASE STUDY Zara The case describes how Zara‚ operating out of the Galician port of La Coruña in north-west Spain has managed to become a benchmark for speed and flexibility in the garment industry. The case offers an illustration of a fast-response global supply‚ production and retail network. In 2003 Zara was the only retailer that could deliver garments to its stores worldwide (507 in 33 countries) in just fifteen days after they were designed. It could do that because of its unique systems
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Corporate Strategy – Zara The core concept of Zara ’s business model is they sell "medium quality fashion clothing at affordable prices"‚ and vertical integration and quick-response is key to Zara ’s business model. Through the entire process of Zara ’s business system: designing‚ sourcing and manufacturing‚ distribution and retailing‚ they presented four fundamental success factors: short cycle time‚ small batches per product‚ extensive variety of product every season and heavy investment in
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Case Study: Zara-Fast Fashion Case Summary: Inditex is the parent company of six different apparel retailing chains that includes Massimo Dutti‚ Pull and Bear‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho‚ and‚ most importantly‚ Zara. Zara has historically been the most profitable of the chains‚ operating 282 stores in 32 countries at the end of 2001 (Ghemawat & Nueno‚ 2006). The other five chains that are operated by Inditex have not matched the growth capabilities or revenue of Zara. Zara’s apparel offers
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Pauline MIB – Chelsea 20th April 2012 Body – 2180 words Total – 3052 words ITM Report on Zara & Charles Schwab Corporation HULT International Business School – Pr. R. Gruenbaum Year 2011-2012 Executive Summary IT has become a crucial area to consider when developing a business. IT systems and applications need to evolve‚ be adapted and updated on a regular basis in
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Background Zara Zara is a chain of stores Belonging to the Spanish fashion group INDITEX founded by Amancio Ortega Gaona. It is the company ’s flagship chain and is represented in Europe‚ America‚ Africa and Asia with 1412 stores in 69 countries‚ 500 of them in Spain. During 2007 it opened 560 stores across the group. . It has three logistics centers‚ located in the main Arteixo‚ province of La Coruna (Spain)‚ where he opened the first store in 1975 and two in Zaragoza and Madrid. In 1975 he
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to leverage brand equity (Monga & John‚ 2010; Tom‚ Kelly & Ravi‚ 2012). Zara as one of the world’s most successful fast fashion brand (FFB) retailers has applied brand extension into its brand development. The purpose of this report is to examine the brand extensions strategy of Zara which include these areas: the marketing objectives of brand extension‚ the relationship between competitive advantage of Zara and the brand extension strategy‚ the model and concept of evaluate customers’ attitude
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Supply Chain Management Strategy of the Retail Brand Zara Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to understand and analyze fashion retail brand Zara’s secret behind its successful supply chain management. Zara has been the pioneer in agile supply chain management and for popularizing the trend of fast moving fashion. Therefore‚ with the help of this example‚ agile distribution management has also been discussed in this paper. Additionally‚ computer hardware brand Dell and Australia’s leading
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Introduction 3 2. Zara as Company 4-5 3. Zara’s Model of Operation 6 4. Company’s Structure 6
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demand with the help of its autonomously organized structure and its effective value chain systems. The present system followed by Zara has been very effective and very easy to maintain‚ which as a result has persuaded the company to continue without any change in the present system so far. The problem that Zara faces right now is that the system that they use‚ P-O-S (Point of Sale terminals)‚ runs on DOS which Microsoft does not support anymore and any hardware change in the POS terminal will not
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