...Rapid Fire Fulfillment: Background David Emme Muhlenberg College Abstract Zara developed three strategies to control the whole supply chain. These are closing the communication loop, stick to a rhythm, and leverage your assets. In doing this, Zara is able to coordinate across the supply chain to maintain a fast replenishment and meet capacity. The chocolate candy industry can benefit from buying the source of their supply and controlling its transport. Keywords. Capacity, align, supply chain, rythm To understand how Amancio Ortega developed rapid fire fulfillment with Zara’s is to understand first principles. Ortega’s first principal came out of desperation. Upon cancellation of a big lingerie order by a German wholesaler, Ortega had to find a way to sell his inventory. His solution, open a shop near his factory. This was not only the birth of Zara but also the Genesis of his principal to run his company: open a store close to the factory and be personally involved. This gave rise to, “you need to have five fingers touching the factory and five touching the customer.” (Ferdows, Lewis, & Machucha, 2004) This allowed Ortega to develop a responsive supply chain that designs, produces, delivers, and displays a new garment on the rack within fifteen days. Out of this first principle there are three identifiable actions Zara’s has taken to develop a proficient supply chain. They are closing the communication loop, stick to a rhythm across the supply chain...
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...1. The operations objectives of Zara are speed and quick responsiveness to the dynamic fashion trends and its customer’s wants. And to achieve this, Zara reinforced three principles (closing the communication loop, sticking to a rhythm, and leveraging their assets). 2. Zara can ramp up or down production of specific garments quickly and conveniently because it normally operates many of its factories for only a single shift. These highly automated factories can operate extra hours if need be to meet seasonal or unforeseen demands. With shorter lead times, Zara can ship fewer pieces, in a greater variety of styles, more often and they can more easily cancel lines that don’t sell as well, avoiding inventory backlogs. 3. Zara can design, produce, and deliver a new garment and put it on display in its stores worldwide in a mere 15 days while industry average is 6 months. Zara keeps almost half of its production in-house. Far from pushing its factories to maximize their output. Zara intentionally leaves extra capacity. Rather than chase economies of scale. Zara manufactures and distributions products in small batches. Instead of relying on outside partners, the company manages all designs, warehousing, distribution, and logistics functions itself. 4. The constant flow of updated data mitigates the so-called bullwhip effect-the tendency of supply chains (and all open-loop information systems) to amplify small disturbances. In an industry that traditionally allows retailers to change...
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...| Zara–Rapid Fire Fulfillment | Unit 1 Assignment 1 | | | Capella University | 1/18/2015 | | Abstract This paper explores the case of Zara–Rapid Fire Fulfillment from research conducted in textbook and on website. Keywords: Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management Zara-Rapid Fire Fulfillment Zara is a company that is known for its speed and being responsive over the cost. While this is not how the industry looks at producing clothing in the marketplace, it has worked very successfully for Zara. Amancio Ortega founded Zara in 1975 with the purpose of understanding the world market and what it means to his fashion merchandise. Ten years after he established Zara, he formed a parent company called Inditex which incorporates other retail concepts and suppliers that he built. Zara began in Spain as a small shop near his factory as he was desperate to find out not to go bankrupt when a buyer backed out of an order that had all of his capital tied up and no prospective buyers in sight. This was the beginning of Zara which is now in 86 countries across the world. The Zara brand is known for the delivery small batches of clothes quickly to the stores. In some cases, this may mean a store will receive new garment orders more than once a week. This does not seem feasible to the clothing industry competitors; however, Zara has been doing this for decades successfully with large profits. The key to this is Zara’s supply chain. Zara controls more...
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...Zara was founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortgeo in La Coruna, Spain and is a leading retail outlet today. Zara’s sales make up 64.8% of its parent company Inditex group revenue and has stores in more than 86 countries. Because of its responsive and unique supply chain sales had increased by 10.1% from 2011 to 2012 fiscal year end. Zara has grown rapidly with a strategy to be highly responsive to changing trends while keeping prices affordable. Zara’s success is because of its responsive supply chain designed around customer needs based on real-time feedback received from store managers. This enables designs to be created or altered to meet customer trends. Zara manufactures in small batches, manages all functions in-house, holds retail stores to strict timetables, ships items on racks with price tags, leaves large areas empty in expensive stores, and allows occasional stock-outs. Zara has total control over design, warehousing, and distribution functions that allows the company to manufacture and have an item ready for display in 15 days normally this process takes design houses months to complete therefore higher net margin on sales than competitors. Zara keeps at least 50% of production in-house and outsources only labor intensive jobs, such as sewing to a select few suppliers, this goes against the industry norm, but it gives Zara control over the entire supply chain. This prevents supplier delays and results in the product reaching the customer faster. Zara’s designers...
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...where you had to get in the car to shop in store; most people do it from the comfort of their couch. With the increased shopping presence, retailers are under extreme pressure to deliver to the demands of their customers. Zara, an international apparel retailer, based out of Spain, has figured out a way to give their customers the ultimate advantage over competitors by a process called Rapid-Fire Fulfillment. Implementing this process has not only reduced their design to sales cycle in weeks compared to months from their competitors, but “Zara’s sales and net income have continued to grow at an annual rate of over 20%” (Ferdows, Lewis & Machuca, 2004). Why is Rapid-Fire Fulfillment Successful for Zara? Zara has a rather untraditional way of processing their products. In Rapid-Fire Fulfillment, Zara can have strict controls over who handles their Supply Chain needs. Zara is one of the few retailers who are in charge of designing, manufacturing, and distributing their products. With this control, they are able to set a quick pace for the duration of the supply chain process. “At Zara, rapid timing and synchronicity are paramount” (Ferdows, Lewis & Machuca, 2004). Zara’s factories use advanced just-in-time systems that all them to customize their in-house processes and take advantage of innovations quickly. One processed used called postponement, which gives them the opportunity to purchase 50% of more of their fabrics without color so they can accommodate to color changes...
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...Discuss the possible damage with short term and long-term complications of a firefighter inhaling heated air and in respiratory distress. Prioritize the necessary interventions to stabilize the patient. Then discuss an in-depth plan of care for recovery. Smoke inhalation is known as the leading cause of death due to fires. Firefighters are trained to recognize the dangerous short-term effects of smoke exposure caused by carbon monoxide and tiny particles absorbed into the lungs. The inhalation of heated air produces injury through several mechanisms, including thermal injury to the upper airway, irritation or chemical injury to the airways from soot, asphyxiation, and toxicity from carbon monoxide. In most cases firefighters can wear devices...
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...ether, Methyl alcohol, Acetone. 9. Combustible Metals (provide examples): a metal that will combust under heat. Some examples are: Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium. 10. Carboxyhemoglobin: A compound found in the blood by binding carbon monoxide and hemoglobin. 11. Chemical Energy (provide examples of the two types): Energy stored in the bonds of chemical compounds released or taken in during exothermic and endothermic reactions. An example of an exothermic reaction is a fire burning. An example of an endothermic reaction is photosynthesis. 12. Concentration: the relative amount of a given substance contained within a solution or in a particular volume of space. 13. BTU: British thermal unit which is a traditional work equal to 1055 joules. 14. Joule: the SI unit of Work or Energy. 15. Fire: Combustion or burning in which substances combined chemically with oxygen in the air and typically give out bright light heat and smoke. 16. Fire Point: The lowest temperature at which a substance can continue to burn. 17. Fire Tetrahedron: A four-sided geometric...
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...and running for their lives, you just witnessed a wildfire. Wildfires happen everywhere. They can start by natural cause or even human cause. A wildfire is defined as an uncontrolled fire, usually in places of high vegetation, such as forest, and in places with lots of wind. Wildfires are ‘quasi-natural’ hazards, meaning that they are not entirely natural features. They can also be caused by human error as well. The four major causes of wildfire ignitions are lightning, volcanic eruptions, sparks from rockfalls, and spontaneous combustion: the ignition of organic matter without apparent cause, typically through heat generated...
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...common but few such years ago. However, since the arrival of Aboriginal Australians from the North fifty thousand years ago, their has been an increased spike in charcoal deposits from soil samples. The need of fire for hunting, heat, traditional ceremonies, and the necessity of fire as a resource has caused this exponential incline....
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...The word fire is defined by webster as the phenomenon of combustion manifested in light, flame, and heat. What this definiton does not tell you is how dangerous a fire can be if you are not aware of its capability to spread and grow rapidly. Fires can be very dangerous and harmful. It is important to education each other as much as possibe to help prevent injries or deadly accidents. There are four stages that happen in every fire. Those stages are Incipient, Growth, Fully Developed, and Decay. Each stage plays a role in every fire. Understanding each stage, and how to handle or prevent it is critical in becoming in control of a fire. Flameovers and backdrafts are not consider stages, but also are definitely factors of a fire. These factors sometimes can be prevented. Some methods of prevention are taugh at fire academies, or fire schools, to new firefighters, and are constistly being developed. Incipient, also know as the "ignition" stage, is the first stage of a fire. In this stage smoke may began before the fire actually flames up. This is the stage where heat, oxygen, and a fuel source combine to ignite the fire. At this stage it can be controlled by a household fire extinguinsher. Growth is the second stage of a fire. With the initial flame used as a heat sourse, more flames flare up. Flaring up makes the size of the fire increase and the plume reaches the ceiling. In a room hot gases meet at the celing of the roomwhich cause all fuels in that room...
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...During the unloading process at the HLF Polyurethane Manufacturing plants, a vapor return line ruptured causing a fire. This is due to a nearby welding operations at gave the vapor a point of ignition. The product that was being delivered to the manufacturing plant was toluene diisocyanate (TDI), and methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI), which are products used in the production of polyurethane. Once the fire was recognized the alarm was sounded and the emergency response team was notified. The fire department was notified and the command area was establish and the emergency response plan was put into action by the incident commander. The emergency response team was not able to isolate the source, ultimately turning over the incident command and control of the fire to the fire department upon their arrival (Meyer, 2014). Two of the hazardous material that are used to manufacture polyurethane is toluene diisocyanate (TDI), and methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI). Toluene diisocyanate contains a list of hazard that can be identified on the Safety Data Sheet, it is extremely toxic of inhaled, it is considered a carcinogen, and can cause skin reactions....
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...|CASA DI FRANCESCA | |CASA DI FRANCESCA | |CASA DI FRANCESCA | | | | | | | |NEVER LEAVE A CANDLE BURNING UNATTENDED | |NEVER LEAVE A CANDLE BURNING UNATTENDED | |NEVER LEAVE A CANDLE BURNING UNATTENDED | | | | | | | |PLEASE KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN AND PETS. ALWAYS| |PLEASE KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN AND PETS. ALWAYS| |PLEASE KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN AND PETS. ALWAYS| |PLACE ON HEAT RESISTANT SURFACE AWAY FROM FLAMMABLE | |PLACE ON HEAT RESISTANT SURFACE AWAY FROM FLAMMABLE | |PLACE ON HEAT RESISTANT SURFACE AWAY FROM FLAMMABLE | |MATERIAL. HANDLE WITH CARE. GLASS MAY BECOME VERY | |MATERIAL. HANDLE WITH CARE. GLASS MAY BECOME VERY | |MATERIAL. HANDLE WITH CARE. GLASS MAY BECOME VERY | |HOT. ALWAYS TRIM WICK ¼ INCH AND REMOVE WICK DEBRIS. | |HOT. ALWAYS TRIM WICK ¼ INCH AND REMOVE WICK DEBRIS. | |HOT. ALWAYS TRIM WICK ¼ INCH AND REMOVE WICK DEBRIS. | |FOR BEST RESULTS DO NOT BURN CANDLE FOR MORE THAN 2 | |FOR BEST RESULTS DO NOT BURN CANDLE FOR MORE...
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...A detonating firework is basically various chemical reactions happening all or in fast succession. A firework is a tube shaped that is been used to launch a firework up in the sky. Whenever fire is been used in the firework fuse, you give enough enactment vitality to make strong concoction mixes stuffed inside the firecracker burns with oxygen in the air and change over themselves into different chemicals, discharging smoke and fume gases, for example, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen in the process. Also, whenever a firework bursts in the air, have you wonder, where does the color come from? Well the color of the firework is also behind of science. These colors come from metal compounds, also known as metal salts, packed inside....
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...Uncontrolled blazes fueled by weather, wind, and dry underbrush, wildfires can burn acres of land—and consume everything in their paths—in mere minutes. On average, more than 100,000 wildfires, also called wildland fires or forest fires, clear 4 million to 5 million acres (1.6 million to 2 million hectares) of land in the U.S. every year. In recent years, wildfires have burned up to 9 million acres (3.6 million hectares) of land. A wildfire moves at speeds of up to 14 miles an hour (23 kilometers an hour), consuming everything—trees, brush, homes, even humans—in its path. HOW THEY ARE FORMED There are three conditions that need to be present in order for a wildfire to burn, which firefighters refer to as the fire triangle: fuel, oxygen, and...
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...trained in firefighting, primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten property and civilian or natural populations and to rescue people from dangerous situations, like collapsed or burning buildings. Luckily or unluckily, my cousin work as a firefighter. Since he became a firefighter, I never saw him at home having the dinner with us in Chinese New Year. He has to stand guard, and wait for the order if there something happen. We all know that the job as a firefighter is really dangerous. There is an explosion in my city as a result of the oil spilling. All of the firefighters including my cousin in my city went to the first rescue line to save lives and buildings. Everyone is in danger. Unfortunately, someone died in that accident. So that comes to problem: Should firefighters contribute their lives to save other’s lives or properties? My answer is no. It might because that I have someone who has the relationship with me in blood. So that I feel his life is important for me. I want him to protect his own life instead of saving others. How fire happens? It is clear that there are some place that can easily catch fire. Like some places near the forest or rainless. We know that if there is only a little fire in a tree, it will spread quickly. We learned some examples from Egan’s article. He argued that firefighters don’t have to die for people’s property and homeowners cannot blame firefighters. He shows the fire happens in Arizona where is really beautiful “ …...
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