Summary Basically this report is to study the logistic process in retail enterprise of international brand ZARA. ZARA is now world’s third largest clothing retailer specialized in both women and men attire and kids as well. This brand has more than 2000 stores around the world. There is one of the powers behind this brand success which is its well organized business logistics process which also known as supply chain process. With this method in business industry, every each big company like ZARA will be a well-known industry with a good reputation in supplying a goods and services. Figure 1: ZARA’s Brand Logo Introduction ZARA together with Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear and Bershka are under one of the world’s largest distribution …show more content…
Basically all the items are displayed in the shop and consumers come and shop. There is also another way of shopping for ZARA’s consumers, they can shop trough online. So they will order and pay using debit or credit card. So delivery process for online shopping takes at least a week, and they use service courier such as FedEx, PosLaju, UPS(United Parcel Service), DHL and TNT. This makes buying and selling of products easy. Besides, with this method (online shopping) makes the retailers and the consumers live easier. This is might be the last stage in supply chain process, unless the consumers of ZARA’s products/goods will resell the goods that they have bought, which make them as the resellers. …show more content…
With the effective supply chain process will contributes to the success of the company or business. Logistical planning is completely an important part in business especially international retail business like ZARA. Since ZARA renowned for its ability to deliver new clothes twice a week on schedule, it shows how well organized ZARA is. Other brands should follow how ZARA manages its business until they able to penetrate the world market. Even though the products in middle range price (which is considered as affordable price), ZARA offered their products in high quality compared to certain brands that put in high price but the product quality is just not that
Zappos is also different from Warehouse logistics management. The general way to deal with the order is accumulating; the installer does not have to walk too much to complete the shipping task. Because Zappos orders that ship, its storage by 24 hours a day to run. In many cases, Zappos also take the initiative to quietly upgrade the user service, even if the user selected normal delivery by 3-5days, it will be the goods to the user a small surprise next day, which the Zappos build is famous for the "wow experience" the secret. In addition to providing the best service to users, Zappos also treats business partners with the same philosophy, creating a benign and healthy corporate ecosystem centered on
Inbound Logistic Process Target is a retail store selling goods worldwide through its retail stores located at various part of the world. It purchases goods from its suppliers and ship those goods to its distribution centre and retail outlets. The continuous supply of merchandise is a tough job as the Global purchase is a difficult process to manage when; sources of supply, regional economies, and governments change in international purchasing can lead to disputes and
Zara provides fashion apparels for men, women and kids of all ages . Zara 's target business is youthful, cost cognizant, and exceptionally delicate to the most recent design patterns. They section their product offering in such a way that ladies account for 60%, men 's 25% and kids 15% accounts for division . Reason for choosing Zara for analysis in spite of being U.K. based company is that, it operates largely in U.K. Zara 's and its parent organization, Inditex, maybe taken as the course reading for how to do retail store network right . Zara has turned into a most loved of design fans, including industry insiders.
3.0 Industry and Competitor Analysis The fashion industry in the UK, Europe and the US has several players who compete for the rich market niche. Compare to its competitors in the clothing and accessories industry, Ted Baker performs very well as evidence by its improved financial ratios e.g the EPS over the past five years. 3.1 Industry Overview The high-street fashion industry is dominated by several firms but Ted Baker is continually winning attention in that industry.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Zara can be identified as one of the largest international fast-fashion organizations which is owned by the fashion group Inditex. Their first store was opened in 1975 and from that point of time, they have had an unstoppable growth throughout the years as up to now. After 42 years of operations, today Zara has been able to expand themselves with 2169 stored over 82 countries all over the world. Rather than they were a high fashion brand in the country, Zara has focused themselves as a fast fashion brand where they will change their fashions at a great pace where no one can reach them. Also, the most attractive thing is that all those latest fashion designs are introduced to the public at an affordable price.
Zara is vertically integrated and takes care of designing, manufacturing and distributing its products. This gives it an immense hold on the market as most of the operational inefficiencies are eliminated by the company’s on employees who identify with the larger goal and value proposition of the brand (The New York Times, 2012). Zara works along with the consumers to understand them more closely rather than imposing its own predictions on them. Zara creates an environment of artificial scarcity in its stores for every design it manufactures so that consumers get a feel of exclusivity rather than stock pile up (Johnson, 2012). This gives them a sense of pride to buy a limited edition of products which they find at Zara stores only.
In terms of differentiation, ZARA’s “fast fashion” philosophy is unique, which create demands and lead the trend in the garment market. They respond very quickly to the demands of target customers and focus on young fashion. In production, they design quickly, production quickly and update quickly.
3.3 Leading The founder of ZARA, Amancio Ortega is known for his leadership skills as that has contributed a big part to his success. His success depicts a leader with a strong vision and is clear about their purposes at all times. It is said that he was an autocratic leader first where the concentration of power was focused on him. But once his business ascended, and his reputation became superior, his leadership style transformed to a democratic way of leadership.
On the other hand the fact that Zara produces the remaining 40% internally, is a strong asset, providing better control, and short lead-times. Finally the fact that Zara owns 450 workshops were garments are to be sewed is a major asset ensuring quality. Another important asset in terms of production, is the technologies involved, for instance the cutting machines, to minimize waste (Ferdows & co. 2014 p9), used in combination with the last-final hand-made sewing. The ease of the connection between the production center and the distribution center is also an important time-saver element, and therefore
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