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 chain of the
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Case Study: Global Supply Chain Management and Strategic Sourcing Assignment 1 Due: October 13‚ 2013 at 11:59pm Marks: 20 Sounds like a supply chain problem Metrovox is a German electronics manufacturer that designs‚ develops and manufactures a range of products for the entertainment and home electronics sector. Management has recently focused on two related products‚ Bugabyte and Terabyte Lite. The Bugabyte is a video and audio player with a flash drive. The company has invested heavily in
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faster than the competition will improve a company’s competitive position. To remain competitive‚ companies must seek new solutions to important Supply Chain Management issues such as modal analysis‚ supply chain management‚ load planning‚ route planning and distribution network design. Companies must face corporate challenges that impact Supply Chain Management such as reengineering globalisation and outsourcing. Why is it so important for companies to get products to their customers quickly
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that owns other fashion brands such as Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Pull and Bear‚ Stradivarius‚ Kiddy’s Class‚ and Oysho. The company still lives by the simple idea of Amacio Ortega to link customer demand to manufacturing and link manufacturing to distribution‚ which ultimately able to respond very quickly to the demands of targeted customers‚ who are young and fashion-conscious city dwellers. Inditex operates 1‚558 stores in 44 countries‚ of which 531 stores are part of Zara chains. Zara generates
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http://www.slideshare.net/himadrisingha/barilla-spa-a-case-on-supply-chain-integration http://www.scribd.com/doc/22320494/Barilla-SpA http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~liush/MOIT/Barilla%20Case%20Study.pdf http://www.scribd.com/doc/7325445/Barilla-SpA-Case-Solution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgBY5wn0aE The Barilla SpA (Harvard Case) Qian Wang Tsai-Lan Huang Xiaoqing Ge February 2‚ 2000 Summary The JITD initiative at Barrila drew a lot of internal and external objections which
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Essay question: Does the fashion industry exist mainly to persuade people to spend money on things they do not need? In my opinion‚the fashion industry do not not exist mainly to persuade people to spend money on things they do not need. Everybody is free to decide if they want to spend money on fashion or not. First of all‚ we have to understand: what is fashion industry? With its beginnings in the late 17th century‚ the fashion industry is a globalized sector that works to meet the demand for
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Case Analysis 1: Zara IT for Fast Fashion 1.) After analyzing the case Zara: IT for Fast Fashion and reviewing the company’s operational strategies‚ we can identify both positive and negative aspects within the organization. Major contributors to the company’s success include: a fined tuned value chain system; lean manufacturing‚ design and distribution; the ability read target markets and predict market trends. Conversely the most significant issues identified in the case include: (1) Poor IT
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY – KANIKA GUPTA EPGDIM 2011-13 SUPPLY CHAIN OF HINDUSTAN PENCILS Hindustan Pencils Limited is the largest primary school stationary manufacturing company in India. They were established in 1958 & have mastered the art of making high quality stationary products. With the latest machinery set up‚ today our state of the art manufacturing units daily produce 5.6 million pencils‚1.2 million sharpeners‚ 2.3 million erasers
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1. Amazon.com‚ Peapod‚ Dell‚ and many furniture manufacturers use push-pull supply chain strategies. Describe how each of these companies takes advantage of the risk-pooling concept. To better understand the strategies used by the three (3) companies and furniture manufacturers‚ the definition of Push or Pull is established below: Push Strategies – when the manufacturer uses its sales force and trade promotion money to induce intermediaries to carry‚ promote‚ and sell the product to end users.
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INTRODUCTION The operation plays key role in firms because it affects operation managers understand their customers and translate their customers’ needs into performance objectives. "In turn‚ the performance objectives (and especially the relative importance of each one) influence the overall operations strategy of the business". (Slack et al.‚ 2010‚) The reason is that managers can based on performance objectives to do decision because it is reflection of corporation strengths and weaknesses. This
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