Super Responsive Supply Chain: The Case of Spanish Fast Fashion Retailer Inditex-Zara

Supply Chain Management in Fast Fashion

Fast Fashion in the Moroccan Apparel Supply Chain: a Case Study

The apparel supply chain is a dynamic industry made distinctive by demand uncertainty and the handling of very many Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) during one season, which make it impossible to forecast demand accurately. Hence, apparel brands have to continuously maintain reactivity to the changing trends in consumer fashion tastes through quickly creating new designs that are suitable for all cus...

Supply Chain Agility towards Global Outsourcing within Fast Fashion industry, A case study of

The turbulent and highly volatile market in the fashion industry creates swift changes in consumer demands. Globalization has been an important development and the Outsourcing of fashion products is also an integral part of the world of fast fashion industry. The success of fast fashion greatly depends on identifying a trend quickly and translating it into the market before the trend is over. T...

Clearance Pricing Optimization for a Fast-Fashion Retailer

Fast-fashion retailers such as Zara offer continuously changing assortments and use minimal in-season promotions. Their clearance pricing problem is thus challenging because it involves comparatively more different articles of unsold inventory with less historical price data points. Until 2007, Zara used a manual and informal decision-making process for determining price markdowns. In collabora...

Responsive Supply Chain

Short product lifecycles, fickle consumers and dispersed supply chains characterize today’s Retail, Apparel and Footwear environment. While companies have made advancements in improving execution and cost efficiencies, lack of synergy across functional areas has prevented them from maximizing the impact of their initiative to the company bottom line. This paper presents insights on supply chain...