Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, business and finance homework help

Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, business and finance homework help

Get Out and Do Assignment # 4

Get Out and Do Assignment #4-Chapter 10: Information Systems and Supply Chain Management

  1. Zara a Technology Company not a Fashion Retailer!!

Read this article: http://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/intelligence/inditex-agile-fashion-force, Inditex Agile Fashion Force, BOF March 30,2015

Pick 3 of the terms below that you can you identify within the Zara article and briefly describe how Zara uses each as part of their operations.

  • Distribution Center
  • Floor Ready
  • Cross-Docking
  • Push vs Pull Supply
  • Logistics
  • Supply Chain
  • RFID
  • Reverse Logistics
  • Stockouts
  • EDI
  • CPFR
  • VMI
  • UPC
  1. RFID can be used throughout many phases of retail. Today we see retailers using RFID to enhance the consumers in-store experience, inventory management, within their distribution centers and in many other ways. Identify ways in which your assigned retailer is using RFID as part of their business strategy. Briefly identify how 2 of the following retailers use RFID within their operations:

Rebecca Minkoff

Burberry

Macy’s

Tesco in Korea

Walmart

  1. Come to class prepared to share and discuss the specifics of your assigned retailers Supply Chain Management system. How many DC’s do they operate? What recent changes were made to their Supply Chain Systems within the past 1-5 years.