Page 1 of 2 ASSIGNMENT 1ST SEMESTER : STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT (STRM) BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 3 (BM303) CHAPTERS COVERED : CHAPTERS 1 - 5 DUE DATE : 3:00 p.m. 18 MARCH 2014 TOTAL MARKS : 100 CASE STUDY : ZARA CLOTHING INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES FOR COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS The complete ‘Instructions to Students for Completing and Submitting Assignments’ must be collected from any IMM GSM office‚ the relevant IMM GSM recognised Additional Tuition
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year. In addition‚ ZARA has more designers than competitors in order to create sophisticated and attractive products. b. Production ZARA prepares very limited volumes of new items to analyze customer’s reaction‚ lowering failure rates‚ approximately 1%‚ on new products. c. Marketing and Sales Central distribution centers control all of merchandise and ship twice a week to each retail store‚ which gives customer impressions of freshness of ZARA’s offering. In addition‚ ZARA limits production runs
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Rosa: Most important facts Rot: References http://fashionista.com/2011/08/zaras-brazilian-factories-accused-of-child-labor-and-unfair-working-conditions/ Zara’s Brazilian Factories Accused of Child Labor and Unfair Labor Practices By LEAH CHERNIKOFF Thursday‚ Aug 18‚ 2011 / 12:34 PM Photos: Reporter Brasil An investigative report out of Brazil has found that Zara‘s Brazilian suppliers contracted with factories which subjected workers to hazardous “slave-like” working conditions
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company on quarterly earnings - there "Companies that have is no real other credible piece of informastrong brands have an tion for them. That focus on quarterly earnalternative to competings almost always gets translated into ing on price and management thinking and process. Stratespecifications." gists and planners have become experts at managing short-term financials and designing cost and sales programs‚ instead of learning how to better build and manage assets that will pay off in the future
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and behavioral management approaches evident in how things are done at Zara International? From the perspective of Classic management‚ since it’s mainly focused on achieving goals and discovering the best way to manage and perform tasks‚ and how they are achieved‚ like productivity‚ efficiency… I think Zara is one of the greatest in this field. They keep improving in it’s market with new releases‚ new trends‚ having new patterns and designs every 15 days‚ this is what makes Zara so famous‚ also
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Growth in the Next Three To Five Years Introduction Zara is a Spanish company that starts its business as a clothing manufacturer. It started to grow from a small company over the decades until it possesses few factories that allocate their products to other countries. Zara crosses over the border of its own country‚ Spain and could be found in upscale locations in the cities like Europe‚ United States‚ Middle East‚ and Asia. Zara has its system of 1603 stores in 78 countries. Its stores are located
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------------------------------------------------- zara spainshclothing company clothing and accessories retailer based in Arteixo‚ Galicia‚ and founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega and Rosalía Mera. It is the flagship chain store of the Inditex group; the fashion group also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti‚ Pull and Bear‚ Uterqüe‚Stradivarius and Bershka. It is claimed that Zara needs just two weeks[1] to develop a new product and get it to stores‚ compared to the six-month industry average‚ and
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Q1a. Should the company upgrade the POS terminals to a modern operating system? It might not be in the retailer’s best interest to perform such upgrade‚ as the new system will replace three of the existing legacy systems in terms of ordering and fulfillment. The IS department will perceive such upgrade as a radical move and is 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
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activity‚ and the implementation of the change in all its complex technological‚ human‚ and organizational dimensions". (Davenport‚ 1993) ZARA ZARA is founded in the year 1975 and owned by Amancio Ortega‚ in La Courna. Inditex is probably the world ’s fastest growing clothing retailer with over 3‚100 stores around the world in over 70 countries and the Zara format taking around 1‚000 of those stores. In March 2006‚ the group overtook Sweden ’s Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) to become Europe ’s largest
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가한다. FLEXIBLE PRODUCTION SYSTEM 유럽시장을 위해 포르투갈‚스페인에‚ 미국시장을 위해 멕시코에‚ 아시아시장을 위해 중국에 제조공장을 갖춘 자라는 재고와 주문량‚ 그리고 판매량에 따라 고객에게 최대한 빠르게 만족을 주기 위해 인근지역에 제조공장을 유치하여 유연한 생산시스템을 자랑한다. 이처럼 인근 지역에 제조공장을 유치하는 것은 정확한 배달 또한 중요한 요소이지만 고객들의 요구에 의하여 판매가격을 낮추기 위한 방법이기도 하다. 또한 자라는‚ 매 분기마다 미리 옷을 제작하여 배송하는 듯 항상 변화에 맞추기 위한 빠른 생산시스템을 가지고 있는 것도 특징이다. MODERATE PRICE AND QUALITY 자라는 적정가격의 질과 가격을 자랑한다. WORD-OF-MOUTH MARKETING 활동과 연계되어 합리적인 질과 가격으로 더 많은 고객유치를 기대한다. 또한 FLEXIBLE PRODUCTION SYSTEM 활동과 연계되어 인근지역에 유치된 제조공장으로 적정
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