...throughout the year. Zara produced about 11,000 styles each year, 5 times as many as a comparable retailer. a. Analyze in detail the problems faced in the supply chain due to their excessively frequent new\? product introductions. b. What strategies were adopted to achieve such a high rate of new product introductions? 2. The entertainment industry of Hollywood has undergone four major transformations in the last 40 years, from “Films shown in theatres” to “Video Rental of VHS Cassettes” to “Sell Through DVDs” to “Digital Delivery of Content”. Analyze how the factors of Product Pricing, Channel of Distribution, Inventory Management and Customer Service have changed in the supply chain though the four generations driven by technology. The film industry is the only industry that we can say has gone through so many changes as far as supply chain. Everything has changed! Channels of distribution, customer service, inventory, revenue sharing options, production, marketing and pricing. We will call these stages or eras of changes generation 1,2,3,4. In the next paragraphs I will accommodate the different stages of the industry approximately in each generation: * In generation 1 movies were only shown in theatres, a price to watch the movie and then the extra of watching the movie on a specific date once a year as a re-run. The industry...
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...BOM 7094: Operations Management Digital Cinema – Changing the Supply Chain Management of the Movie Industry BOM 7094 Term Paper Dzulhafidz Bin Dzulkifli - 1091200147 10 Table of Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Literature Reviews ........................................................................................................................... 4 Digital Cinema – The New Challenge for the Movie Industry ..................................................... 4 Security and Rights Management in Digital Cinema................................................................... 4 Digital Cinema Business Model – The Global Outlook ............................................................... 5 Summary of Literature Review ............................................................................................... 6 Operation Management: Supply Chain Management ..................................................................... 7 Motion Picture Supply Chain Management – The Conventional Way ............................................ 8 Ownership Chart: The Big Six ..................................................................................................... 9 The Management of the Chain of Supplies for Digital Cinema. .................................................... 10 Digital Cinema Process .................................
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...Supply chain of movies: How does it work ? Last updated on Sunday, September 18, 2011| Related categories: distribution, films, movies, operations, supply chain A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.” The above is a definition of a ‘Supply Chain’ taken verbatim from Wikipedia. Now whenever words like Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Logistics, Production Control, Distribution and Delivery are thrown around, most people tend to associate them with sophisticated manufacturing processes in some gigantic factory producing high technology complex goods. That is the general perception and it hard to blame them, for these words actually originated from such production processes a few decades ago. However what most people don’t realize (or it skips their mind inadvertently) is that the above explanation of supply chain is pretty generic and is perfectly applicable to a variety of industries and processes, and the principles remain more or less similar in these industries that may be termed unconventional in terms of their usage to operations management (or to put it in a more ‘efficient’ manner- Operations Management can be termed as unconventional in terms of its usage in these industries). The purpose of this series article is to introduce the Supply Chain and its Management for the much loved Movie Industry in India. The scope...
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...operations would reduce internal conflicts; build a new and more efficient system and also have the ability to create new brands more proficiently. To avoid store cannibalism, to settle a new subsidiary and look for new branding opportunities: 4/5 2. Explain why supply chain management should be aligned with corporate strategy. Justify your answer with an example. Supply chain management should be aligned with corporate strategy because supply chain is a process that runs through almost every division and operation in an organization. When supply chain is aligned with corporate strategy it produces optimal operational performance. Organizations have to manage inventory, get supplies on time for products, and arrange to have that final product reach its final destination in a timely manner. Aligning this with corporate strategy is important, as companies need to keep inventory manageable so they can keep cost down offer competitive prices to customers. Manufacturing companies need to have suppliers provide the materials for products on time so that orders can be filled and shipped on time, having collaboration with the suppliers and their system this can be made possible. With new technology for supply chain, everything is automated, from taking an order to sending confirmation that the order has been...
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...Hulu Background Hulu offers a range of hit TV shows, movies, and clips. It was founded in March 2007 and is owned jointly by NBC Universal, News Corp, Walt Disney, and Providence Equity Partners, but is operated independently of either individual company. The company’s extensive supply manages to deliver more than 2,600 shows, both current and classic, by consolidating the content of over 225 individual companies. Achieving such a large selection across a wide variety of networks is one of Hulu’s main advantages. On the Hulu board of directors sit representatives from all the four companies mentioned above, along with independent Hulu director and CEO Jason Kilar, formerly of Amazon.com. Although the parent companies have board representation, the parent firms are in competition with their own offspring, since Hulu is outperforming the individual networks’ own online video services. This has raised concerns among critics of Hulu’s corporate structure to deem it as fundamentally flawed. Hulu itself considers its main competitors to be various “piracy services”, such at PirateBay.com with other peer-to-peer sites and independent legal streaming sites, such as Justintv.com. This is a hint at the position Hulu has gained today, where it’s diversified television content seem to be hard to challenge by legal means. The main threat to Hulu, however, might in fact come from inside the business model itself, Hulu’s main source of revenue is advertising sales. The video you are...
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...THE DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN AND BUSINESS ANALYTICS by FRANCES STACKS Business analytics, data based decision making, data solutions – it goes by many names but is the lifeblood of many businesses. It is nothing new and certainly not a new concept that more effectively running a business makes a more successful and profitable business. Since the very first company came about, utilizing the information at hand to provide inventory, knowledge of customer needs, wants, and desires; it has been integral in sustaining a business and making it grow. As stated by Robert Jacobs and Richard Chase what we must recognize now is, “…so much more data is now captured and available for decision-making analysis than was available in the past.” To be sure, the sheer volume of data that is now available to companies is astronomical due to ever-expanding technology, application of complex mathematical models, and ever advancing ability to extrapolate mountains of data and whittle it down to useful knowledge for businesses. Where data was once available after the fact, a “post-mortem” approach, if you will, companies can now utilize data for analysis, forecasting, optimization, revising of business processes, more efficient decision-making, and ultimately (and conversely most important) greater customer satisfaction. Business analytics has moved from being a process of analyzing customer behavior after the fact to being a tool that can help predict customer behavior in the future. This is an invaluable...
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...customers view us? Netflix has continually changed its offerings, which causes customers to view the company differently over time. Hasting’s goal of the business model was focused on value, convenience, and selection from the very beginning. The unique ability of personalized recommendations of new/semi-older movies and convenient DVD delivery/return have ended up being the key factors that make the company different in customer’s minds. Some customers may even view the company positively as it stood up for customers and tried to create a solution to ridiculous late fees charged by the few competitors in the movie renting industry. Netflix has been able to gain between 150-280% more subscribers each year since 1999. The company started with 107 subscribers in 1999, and had 6,316 in 2006; that’s 590% more subscribers. This shows that customers view Netflix as a cheap alternative to Blockbuster and other movie rental companies, and that customers see value in the money spent with Netflix. 2. How do we create value? Netflix creates value by becoming a great source for lesser-known movies, by creating a “queue” that enables consumers to make a list of desired movies, by creating personalized movie recommendations, by offering ease of sign up/disenrollment, by charging no late fees, and by convenient mailing delivery and return. “Through its 44 distribution centers across the country, Netflix could deliver to more than 90% of its 6.6 million subscribers within a single business...
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...Manage Workforce Planning For Report Prepared by cobkat Table of Contents: Page 3 Introduction Company History and Background Page 4 Company History and Background cont. Mission Statement for Video Ezy Page 5 Supply and Demand for DVD Rental Chain Video Ezy Company Objectives Page 6 Company Strategies Page 7 SWOT Analysis Page 8 SWOT Analysis cont. Page 9 PESTLE Analysis Page 10 PESTLE Analysis cont. Page 11 PESTLE Analysis cont. Page 12 Current and Projected Labour Requirements (3-5yrs) Page 13 Current and Projected Labour Requirements (3-5yrs) cont. Page 14 Current and Projected Labour Requirements (3-5yrs) cont. Page 15 Gap Analysis Page 16 Monitoring and Evaluating Workforce Trends Conclusion Page 17 Reference List Introduction: This intent of this Workforce Planning Report is to ensure the correct management of current labour supplies and demands and those for the next 3–5 years and to enable Video Ezy to correctly and efficiently manage its overall workforce. Video Ezy is one of Australia’s best-known and largest names for DVD, Blu-Ray and video game rentals and purchasing in Australia, with both in store and online shopping available. Video Ezy employs 70 people at their head office in Rhodes, Sydney, New South Wales. With the inclusion of 375 franchise stores, over 2,600 people are employed under the Video Ezy banner. Video Ezy has also created synergetic partnerships with the likes of McDonalds, Coke, Virgin Mobile, Pizza...
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...watching English movies and reading English books. I also love traveling, and I decide to go to NewYork with my friends in Christmas. Actually, I don’t have so much working experience before, but I really want to do some part-time jobs in my spare time, in order to enrich my life and enlarge my knowledge. I need to learn harder to absorb more knowledge about logistics and improve my English, in this way, I believe I can lay a strong foundation for having a good job. In order to better understand the supply chain management, we made an oral interview with our supply chain professors- Jim Crowell yesterday. We had a pleasant conversation through this interview and asked him some questions about the supply chain management. Firstly, we wonder the development trend of the supply chain management. What professor told us is that the logistics will become more intelligent and depend more on the internet with the development of the science and technology. And then, we asked what is the most unforgettable through his supply chain working experience; he said the most impressed part of his working period is more personal: that is his daughter also involved in the supply chain and interested in it as well. At last, we wonder where can we learn more supply chain except in the class; This is also the most important part that we want to ask. Professor suggested us that we can watch more TED video about supply chain and read more book of it; we can learn supply chain ever day by finding...
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...Appendix B Picture the Supply Chain Complete the chart below by outlining the digital content supply chain at Warner Bros. Entertainment. |Upstream Component |Internal Component |Downstream Component | |(sourcing/procurement) |(packing/assembly |(distribution) | | |manufacturing) | | | | | | |Warner Bros. is enlisting the help or |The main company Warner Bros. Entertainment| | |outsourcing to Hewlett-Packard to increase |serves as an umbrella for smaller | | |sales and give the consumer what they |companies, this becomes costly with little | | |want-digital media. |time in between productions. With three | | |Warner Bros Entertainment is responsible |types available DVD’s, HDDVD’s and Blu-ray | | |for delivering technology to the consumer. |disc’s, the alternate availability of these| | |The...
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...Google Misses the Mark There were many areas where Google may have missed the mark in the initial layout and design after its acquisition of You Tube. The first major mark Google missed was the initial design of the video service. Google initially designed the service where users were able to search video content. Google wanted to make an easy search function so that its users could easily search television shows and also find when and where to watch them. The search function was in no way comparable to You Tube. You Tube’s design was more simplistic and searching was much easier. Google’s video service overall missed the mark in the small details as well. The Google video service did not incorporate the small details that users liked such as the number of views. This information was only available to the uploader and not the viewer. Google’s service allowed the user to search captions from a video, but the search would produce only related information such as broadcasting dates and not the actual video. Once Google began allowing user contributed content, it required special version of Video LAN to view the videos, making it inaccessbile to the average viewer. Google also offered a new flash technology which made it a lot quicker to upload a video, but viewing the video took considerably longer. Youtube was a smaller company and there was no real threat or fear of lawsuits for copyright infringement. With Google, their pockets seemed endless and were a prime target for...
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...The Long Tail The phrase The Long Tail was first coined by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article to describe certain business and economic models such as Amazon.com or Netflix. Anderson later extended it into the book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More (2006). Businesses with distribution power can sell a greater volume of otherwise hard-to-find items at small volumes than of popular items at large volumes. (The original term is a military one, describing the logistic chain of support an army required: it has been said there is a "long tail" leading from rear-area supply centres up to an army's "teeth": the fighting forces at the front.) Anderson argued that products that are in low demand or have low sales volume can collectively make up a market share that rivals or exceeds the relatively few current bestsellers and blockbusters, if the store or distribution channel is large enough. Anderson cites earlier research by Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu (Jeffrey) Hu, and Michael D. Smith, that showed that a significant portion of Amazon.com's sales come from obscure books that are not available in brick-and-mortar stores. The Long Tail is a potential market and, as the examples illustrate, the distribution and sales channel opportunities created by the Internet often enable businesses to tap into that market successfully. An Amazon employee described the Long Tail as follows: "We sold more books today that didn't...
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...Netflix Case Analysis Netflix is an American provider and the world's leading internet subscription service of on-demand streaming media in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, United Kingdom and Ireland and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. Netflix members can instantly watch unlimited films and TV episodes streamed over the internet to more than 700 devices for about $7.99 a month. With regards to increasing the influence of the Netflix brand, expansion into the video game industry could be an option, however various factors such as competitors, viability and sustainability of the company as a whole need to be further analyzed in order to assess whether this proposal is feasible. Competitor Analysis AREA| NETFLIX| HULU| BlOCKBUSTER| REDBOX| market share| 55%| 35%| 5%| 5%| Subscribers| 23.6 mil| 24 mil| low| 12 mil| Brand Popularity| HIGH| LOW| MED-HIGH| MEDIUM| start date| 1998| 2007| 1985| 2003| Revenue in 2011| 705.7 mil| 420 mil| bankrupt| 363.9 mil| Revenue increase from 2010| 29.00%| 48%| | | Growth in customers| 30%| 50%| | 30%| (in 2011)| | | | | Netflix's success has inspired a number of other DVD rental companies both in the United States and abroad, but none of the purely online companies appear to approach Netflix in terms of market share or revenues as can be seen above. Hulu is a close second in terms of Market share and it can be seen that its entry into the market was nearly...
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...Axia College Material Appendix B Picture the Supply Chain Complete the chart below by outlining the digital content supply chain at Warner Bros. Entertainment. Upstream Component (sourcing/procurement) Internal Component (packing/assembly manufacturing) Downstream Component (distribution) Hewlett-Packard is the primary partner used to transform the studio’s entire film production and distribution process to an all-digital, file-based system, and to create an information technology architecture to make this process possible. The studio has a film and digital version for all its films, which also includes all of the royality rights. This is refered to by Warner Bros. as its E-Master which are stored on servers at Warner Bros. Warner Bros. in 2006 produced more than 25,00 different DVEs and delivered more than 180 hours of video programming weekly through its global digital exchange. They also produced and distributed more than 50 television series and digitized more than 6,00 feature films in its storage vaults for DVD releases. The creation of the E-masters enables Warner to utilize any channel to reach the consumer including their website and most retailers. The company also has an online Web initiative that will enable fans of various cartoon shows such as Looney Tunes to download new, interactive content, related games, and flash animations of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and other popular characters. ...
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... 2. Are there any potential new market entrants? Considering the nature of the business there are always potential new market entrants because it is less costly to enter the market and setup operations. Traditional stores can be the biggest threat because they already have the consumer base. For instance Walmart already enjoy economies of scale, they have brands that people recognize and they have a strong supply chain. 3. Are there any substitute products and services? Yes there are a ton of companies that offer some of the same products and service that Amazon offer. 4. Can customers easily switch to a lower cost provider? Yes customers can easily switch to lower cost providers, but most will not because of the customer service provided by Amazon. 5. Who are the suppliers? Amazon.com provides any type of product there is in its online stores. This means that there is a strong supplier base relationship that cannot be replicated. In addition, as a bookseller and a provider of other entertainment channels such as movies, videos and music, Amazon.com has established relationships with publishers, producers, movie studies and music producers which are not easy to form and replicate. ? http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-strategy/online-business-revenue-models/amazon-case-study/...
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