ZARA INTERNAL ANALYSIS. Zara’s core competence is recognizing and assimilating the continuous changes in fashion. They’re very good at this because there’s a very good communication within the company. Store managers send information about the customer demands and new fashion trends to the headquarters on a daily basis. So if there’s a new trend‚ Zara is able to adapt their products or design new articles immediately. If a design doesn’t sell within a week‚ it’s withdrawn from the shops‚ further
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LogForum > Electronic Scientific Journal of Logistics < http://www.logforum.net ISSN 1734-459X 2010 Vol. 6 Issue 3 No 3 EVOLUTION OF COMPETENCIES OF LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGERS Danuta Kisperska-Moroń University of Economics‚ Katowice‚ Poland ABSTRACT. One new concept emerging in current business reality is a virtual supply chain. This paper indicates in what way a virtual supply chain‚ that is subject to constant changes‚ influences the requirements for competencies of managerial
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Zara case 1. What underpins the success of Zara in its chosen markets? Through analyzing this case‚ it obviously demonstrated that it has own successful supply chain. It shows on five performance objectives which refer to speed‚ quality‚ flexibility‚ dependability‚ costs. Firstly‚ it performed on the speed of Zara’s supply chain‚ Zara “has over 650 Zara stores in 50 countries” and rapidly changed fashion trend so that it seemingly difficult to deliver products to stores. However‚ Zara just
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counter-intuitive strategy quite opposite to this conventional wisdom? Could the firm have executed its strategy without the help of IT? Why or why not? Answer: IT plays an important role in the success of Zara. It is crucial in the processes of: "DATA GATHERING"‚ "DESIGN" AND "MANUFACTURING AND LOGISTICS" Zara’s store managers lead the intelligence-gathering effort that ultimately determines what ends up on each store’s racks. Armed WITH PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS (PDAS)-handheld computing devices meant
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Perey‚ Lauren Alexis G. Pili‚ Alessandra Emile F. 3TE-4 OR CASE STUDY Zara Uses Operations Research to Reengineer Its Global Distribution Process 1. OR Approach A. Problem Analysis: “Fast fashion” is a term often associated with this Spanish clothing manufacturer and retailer‚ which has rapidly sped up the process of designing and delivering fashionable clothes throughout the world. Zara’s supply chain includes two primary warehouses located in Spain that periodically receive shipments
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Zara is the flagship brand of the Spanish retail group‚ Inditex SA‚ one of the super-heated performers in a soft retail market in recent years. When Indtiex offered a 23 percent stake to the public in 2001‚ the issue was over-subscribed 26 times raising Euro2.1 billion for the company. Zara is unique model in business world today it has its own principles which may varies from its competitors in the same industry starting from production strategy ending with supply chain management strategy‚ these
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integrated supply chain explaining how it supports the "fast fashion" model. Zara‚ Spanish clothing with retail chain throughout the world is probably the world’s fastest growing retailer with almost a thousand stores. Zara has it own unique business model that enabled Zara to be compete with its competitors‚ and it’s driven by Zara’s "fast fashion" with its vertically integrated supply chain. Vertically integrated supply chain allowed Zara to successfully build up a strong retail chain combine with
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Supply Chain Risk Management in Procurement and Logistics Report by iMBA 2015 students: Content 1.Introduction and Summary………………………………………………………………….. 3 2. Types of the risks ………………………………………………………………….…………… 3 2.1 Delay of delivery ……………………………………………………………………. 3 2.2 Force Majeure ……………………………………………………………………….. 4 2.3 Procurement risk ……………………………………………………………………. 5 2.4 Receivables risk ……………………………………………………………………... 5 2.5 Inventory risk …………………………………………………………………………. 6 2.6 Capacity risk
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Target is the third largest retail chain in the United States and in the case study of‚ we find that Target was having growth slowed because of an overly complicated supply chain and unacceptable levels of stockouts that was causing upset customers and leading to decreased sales. Stockouts are zero inventory situations where inventory does not mirror demand. The distribution process became very complicated with the addition of the grocery business and became more complicated when they began to let
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CHALLENGES FOR LOGISTIC & SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN SLOWDOWN A distinct feature of this economic slowdown is the direct degradation of consumer’s assets which has wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth. And consumers have responded by spending conservatively and concentrating on improving their savings. This new era of low spending and unpredictable consumer behaviour has rendered many demand-forecasting models inaccurate or even obsolete. Therefore‚ companies across the world are
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