Zara

Page 1 of 5 ZARA:ITFORFASTFASHIONTeam 2 |UWT1.Although the current POS system is working smoothly for Zara, upgrading will help to safeguard the system from vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers. Also, most of the IT experts who used older versions of the Operating System (OS) have retired and Microsoft has officially discontinued supporting it. There are many other possible ramifications continuing with the older version of the OS such as operation failure caused by…

According to the article “The K-pop Plastic Surgery Obsession” by Zara Stone in The Atlantic Magazine, the first ever recorded plastic surgery in Korea was performed by Dr. Ralph Millard, who arrived in South Korea in 1954 during the Korean War, and also the chief plastic surgeon for the United States Marine Corps. His duty is to treat the Korean accident and burn victims during the war. During his stay in South Korea, Dr. Millard performed the first recorded double-eyelid operation in South…

Zara manages this in a very efficient way and can manufacture different products by using few types of materials. Zara buys large quantities of only a few types of fabric (just four or five types, but they can change from year to year), and does the garment design and related cutting and dyeing in-house. This way fabric manufacturers can make quick deliveries of bulk quantities of fabric directly to the Zara DC – the Cube. The company purchases raw fabric…

allows them to happily interact with others regardless of their status or skin color. At a young age children do not see color, but as they grow into adolescence they become more aware of diversity and intolerance in the society. This is relevant in Zara Nealson’s autobiographical story “How it Feels to be Colored Me.” Zora describes her struggle of overcoming racial issues and establishing a strong base of her personal individuality. At a young age some children are open minded and have…

The problem for our client began when Ian Jack Miller filed a $40 million lawsuit against Zara USA, Inc., claiming he was harassed and ultimately fired for his “religion, national origin, and sexual orientation” (Miller v. Zara (2015, p. 8). Miller, former General Counsel for the Defendant from 2008 to March of 2015, claims he was repeatedly excluded from meetings (item 51, p. 18), given smaller raises than his co-workers (item 84, p. 20), and subjected to homophobic, and anti-Semitic remarks…

results, the data was found that 58% of respondents from ZARA customers were satisfied with the staffs that serve the customers really fast which is much more than H&M customers that was only 48%. The results can be shown that only 2% and 1% that they were strongly dissatisfied with service which was too slow to serve the customers. In contrast, there were about 24% of respondents from H&M customers were dissatisfied. And only 7% of ZARA customers were dissatisfied. This issue can also be seen…

Business Model: Zara ‘s business model creates a differentiation for the brand by transferring ramp fashion to the stores in record time. It is highly responsive to the changing fashion amongst young urban population by employing of its vertically integrated operations that minimises sales forecasting, whereas conventional clothing retailers relied highly on forecasting and outsourcing of production. Also this vertical integration allows Zara to introduce new items faster and moves the garment…

POS Terminal: The Current POS terminal of ZARA is effective, easy to operate and maintenance cost is low. However, the DOS based POS systems is ancient and not that much powerful to handle its current sales operating load. Jumping into new operating systems, organizational changes and modifications to store employee work habits with this new system is time-consuming and expensive process, thus, gradually upgrade the POS system is suggested. Two way Zara can meet its short and long-term business…

4.0 The organization business strategy 4.1 Business level strategy of Zara Michael Porter also formulated a theory of how company can select a business level strategy. The organization must choose between two basic ways of increasing the value of an organization’s product which is differentiating the product to add value or lowering the costs of value creation. Based on Zara’s company the business level strategy is based on focusing both and differentiation cost leadership. Most important point…

Company: Zara We are going to undertake Steeple analysis on Zara and McDonald’s to identify the main drivers impacting on HR strategy and HR practices within the companies. Steeple analysis is the external environmental factors that affect the organisation. According to Daniel Farnham a Steeple analysis is more in-depth analysis compared to PESTLE and is classified as Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, Legal and Ethical. Social Social Factors are one of the most important…