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• Capacity planning & control
RESOURCES • Inventory planning & control
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• Quality planning & control
ZARA
Zara is the flagship brand of the Spanish fashion retail giant, Inditex,
(Industrias de Deseno Texti S. A.)
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Vision Statement
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Business Strategy
The success story of Zara is based upon its business strategy that fostered
-- creativity,
-- innovation
-- Flexibility ,
This business model is what differentiate Zara from it competitors and provided them
with an edge and competitive advantage both at a local as well as at an international
level.
Zara defines its target market as “Young, educated one that likes fashion and is sensitive
to fashion
The business strategy of Zara focuses on gaining competitive advantage over its rivals
through integration of is production, manufacturing, logistics and customer handling
staff.
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Competitive Strategy
Low Price Concept –Zara’s prices are affordable for people of different
income class
Fast Fashion – Trends moves from the runway to stores within weeks,
as opposed to months
Capabilities – Zara takes two weeks to design a new product & get it
to stores, where as the industry standard is six months
Zara doesn’t need to forecast demand. It can respond to demand as it
develops and changes . Their basic concept is to keep design,
Production and process integrated to react promptly to shifts in
demand of consumers
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Competitive Strategy
Value Chain of ZARA
Information system
Designers & commercial teams
Production:
Purchase materials,
11,000 items a
production order, set Fulfillment
year
Creation:
prices
unsold
Twice a week
suppliers
customers
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Operation Strategy
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Operation Strategy
• Zara delivers fashionable and trendy cloth addressing all tastes through a
controlled design and integrated process . Designs inspiration is copied
from different sources (trade fairs, catwalks, magazines)
• Zara manufactures 60% of its products. By owning its in-house production
Zara is able to be flexible in the amount, frequency, and variety of new
styled products.
• Zara has outsourced less manufacturing than its peers. It has 22 factories
and runs many of them often only in one shift leaving extra capacity to
respond quickly to seasonality and unforeseen demand.
• Comparing to peers which rely heavily on overseas
suppliers/manufactures which don’t provide same flexibility as these
suppliers could request orders to be placed few months in advance.
• Zara is outsourcing all the labour intensive tasks mainly the sewing, while
the cutting is done in-house. This produces of saving labour cost, flexibility
of meeting deadlines, keeping the designs/fashions strictly controlled
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Operation Strategy
Information System –
• Zara applies technology in areas that speed up complex tasks, lower
cycle time and reduce error.
• It is technology that helps Zara identify and manufacture the
clothes that customers want, get those products to the market
quickly.
• Zara stores managers carry hand held Casio computers to send
online information to headquarters like selling trends, customers
comments, or placing orders.
• Designers send their design suggestions to factory and to
distribution department by scanning a design into a computer and
electronically transmit to factory computers including computers
controlled cutting equipment.
• Designers input the designs patterns into CAD systems which
automatically feed into the cutting machines in the factories
ensuring the required quality of outputs and having a minimum
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fabrics waste.
Operation Strategy
Inventory Strategy
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Operation Strategy
• Zara is geared around speed and responsiveness providing fresh baked products.
• Store managers communicate customer feedback on what shoppers like, what they don’t
like and what they’re looking for.
• That data is instantly funneled back to Zara’s designers who begin sketching on the spot.
• The responsiveness effects the customer behavior as it plays role in pushing the customer
to buy quickly and have higher visits frequency as new models arrive very frequent.
• This creates an environment of shortage and opportunity in Zara’s retail stores.
• The environment also increases the regularity and quickness, in which consumers visit
the stores and buy the products.
• The usual customers know that new products are introduced every two weeks and most
likely would not be available the next day.
• Therefore, Zara’s scarcity background allows the company to sell more items at full price.
• This strategy minimizes Zara’s total cost because it reduces the percentage of markdown
merchandise compared to its competitor.
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Operation Strategy
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