Case Study on Zara: IT for Fast Fashion I. Executive Summary After reviewing Zara: IT for Fast Fashion, it is concluded that the problem the company is facing is their need to upgrade from their POS (point-of-sale) terminal system that uses a DOS (Disk Operating System) to a POS terminal system that does not run on DOS. Upgrading would allow the company’s stores to be interconnected and instantly check the stock of a certain SKU in another store. It is recommended that this upgrade be made before
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mother buys clothes at the Zara chain because they are cheap, while her daughter aged in the mid-20s buys Zara clothing because it is fashionable. Clearly, Zara is riding two of the winning retail trends - being in fashion and low prices - and making a very effective combination out of it. Much talked about, especially since its parent company's IPO in 2001, often admired, sometimes reviled, but hardly ever ignored, Zara has been an interesting case study for many other retailers and
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CASE STUDY ZARA 1. Which theory is internationalization? the best representative of Zara’s (Inditex’s) In the case of Zara, the Uppsala model can be considered as the best representative theory concerning their internationalization strategy. The Uppsala model is an organic growth model, which aims to minimize psychic distance through small incremental steps in the internationalization process. Zara opened its first store in La Coruna in 1975 and focused on the domestic market in the early stages
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Case study Zara 1. 1. ZARA is a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer based in Arteixo, Galicia. Founded in 24 May ,1975 by Amancio Ortega and Rosalía Mera. Zara needs just two weeks to develop a new product and get it to stores, compared to the six-month industry average, and launches around 10,000 new designs each year. Zara was described by Louis Vuitton Fashion Director Daniel Piette as "possibly the most innovative and devastating retailer in the world. 1763 stores , 78 countries
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Pre-course Assignment | International Business INTRODUCTION TO THE CASE Zara is a retail chain company which operates in the fashion industry. It's owned by Indixt group in North West Spain. It holds the ownership of some world famous brands such as Massimo Dutti, Pull & Bear, Oysho, Uterqüe, Stradivarius and Bershka. The very first Zara shop was open in 1975 and their specialty is frequent innovation of new product lines. Also they decided not to outsource their production to low-cost countries
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ZARA: History and Background Inditex is a global specialty retailer that designs, manufactures, and sells apparel, footwear, and accessories for women, men and children through its chains around the world. Zara is the largest and most internationalized of the six retailers that Inditex owns: (Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull & Bear, Bershka, Stradivarius, and Oysho). By the end of 2001, Zara operated 507 stores around the world, including Spain. Of Inditex’s total employees, over 80% of them are
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Zara Case Study Analysis Executive Summary This report provides and analysis and evaluation of the current IT operations of Zara, a segment of Inditex, and concludes with a decision whether to upgrade to a more modern operating system or not. When analyzing the company, many problems arose that centered on the company using an obsolete DOS operating system. Key problems found were that managers are spending too much time on ordering information. POS systems are not linked and therefor information
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➢ Major Facts: Zara is a fashion company based in Europe, the case goes over a lot of different areas of the business. Everything from how they operate differently than their competitors, their outdated IT systems, and where they plan to go in the future. The case shows many strategies Zara has taken in order to become successful in Fashion industry, having a customer’s driven process, agility, retail power, and a successful supply chain. As in the case, managing a supply chain in the fashion industry
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I . Background Inditex, founded by Amancio Ortega, operates six different chains: Zara, Massimo Dutti,Pull&Bear, Bershka, Stradivarius, and Oysho. Since 2006 when the case was written, Inditex hasadded Zara Home and Uterque to its collection. 1 The retail chains were meant to operate asseparate business units within a structure, which included six support areas and nine corporatedepartments. Each chain addressed different segments of the market, but all share the samegoal: to dominate their
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continue support for the DOS system that Zara uses, it should be a red flag that the vendor is unwilling to sign any contracts stating such. The fact that Zara is the only customer on the old system should be motivation enough for Zara to upgrade its system. The system will eventually need to be upgraded anyway, and the longer that Zara’s executives wait, the higher the risk of loss as a result of trying to quickly upgrade the unsupported system in the case that the vendor discontinues DOS support
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