Waterloo Regional Police Services: The CIMS Project Background: The fashion industry that Zara plays in are intensively competing in fast market response and wide market coverage. Basically, since the target customers' tastes in fashion change rapidly, it is hard for industry players to not only accurately predict the trends but also put effective influences onto customers. As a result, industry players are trying their best to quickly sense the popularity and then deliver their quality products
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CASE STUDY ZARA: Staying Fast and Fresh In early 2011, despite a successful decade of continued growth, fashion retailer Zara’s CFO Miguel Díaz was anything but complacent. When asked about the future, Díaz responded: Challenges abound. At the pace stores are being added in the rest of the world, the inevitable question is whether we should open our first major distribution center outside Spain. Another concern is that the prices of raw materials and labor are not going down, in part
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What is the world’s largest fashion retailer? The answer might surprise you. With over 1800 stores in 56 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, Zara is the brand that holds that title. Within the span of 28 years, the Inditex Group, Zara’s holding company, incorporated seven other brands and over 6500 shops in 88 different countries. As the figurehead of the Inditex group, Zara is the better known brand, however, many people have not heard of it. Today, I am here to inform you on
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The apparel retailing industry is a highly competitive industry. One major challenge most companies face lies in being able to predict and respond swiftly to changing fashion trends. For the purpose of studying the industry model, Gap Inc. business model will be used. Gap Inc. Business Model Gap Inc. is a specialty retailing company which offers clothing, accessories and personal care products for men, women, children and babies under five brand names - Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Piperlime
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Inditex/Zara history (Explain) Amancio Ortega Gaono began Inditex as a way to bring high fashion apparel to the market at an affordable price. After years working in the apparel retail industry in la Coruña, Spain, Ortega left his job in the early 1960’s to being manufacturing trendy designers pieces in cheaper materials and selling these items to local shops. In 1975, Ortega opened his first retail store, Zara, drawn by its inexpensive, fashionable merchandise, and Ortega expanded the Zara chain
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Executive Summary Zara has relied on Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s) and Point of Sales (POS) terminal operating on Microsoft DOS which are not linked to the headquarters or other stores for its daily transactions. Although, the system has proved to be stable and reliable over time, it has become obsolete and cannot be supported by the providers. I recommend that the company invest on a new system like Windows, UNIX or Linux operating system which will enhance connectivity and flexibility
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Case 1 – (information technology the internet and changing strategies in the fashion world) Question 1. What business model and strategies is Zara pursuing? Answer – Zara uses IT to manage the interface between its design and manufacturing operations efficiently. Zara’s designers closely watch the trends in the high fashion industry and the kind of innovations that the major houses are introducing. Then, by using their information system, which are linked to their supplier and the low cost manufacturers
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Zara Case Management 454 3/20/14 Founded in 1975 by Armancio Ortega, Zara is a very successful Spanish clothing and accessory realtor and the first business to start the Inditex Group empire. Starting in a small Galician city known as La Coruna in Spain, Zara has grown to be a retailer powerhouse with over 6,000 stores in 85 different countries. Although the number of stores and locations is constantly changing as Zara is known to open more than a store a day in past years. Zara has
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http://upcommons.upc.edu/pfc/bitstream/2099.1/9456/1/67045.pdf IS points Communication uInformation Technology Keeps It Boiling Information and communications technology is at the heart of Zara's business. Four critical information-related areas that give Zara its speed include: Collecting information on consumer needs: trend into information flows daily, and is fed into a database at head office. Designers check the database for these dispatches as well as daily sales numbers, using the information
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speed of fashion By Devangshu Dutta The middle-aged 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
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