SCM 2160 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Point Of Sale, Smart Common Input Method, Fast Fashion

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Supply Chain Management
• Course: SCM 2160
• Professor: Farhan Islam

Document Summary

Salgado was the head of it for intidex. He and his coworker was discussing about bringing changes to the point of sales (pos) terminals used by zara. He was also concerned about how store managers were always asking for a system that would give them information about the inventory levels. Although salgado was towards upgrading the pos his coworker was totally against it and did not want to bring a drastic change to the pos. Zara"s approa(cid:272)h to i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) te(cid:272)h(cid:374)ology (cid:449)as consistent and focused on mainly speed and decentralized decision making. Zara used several information systems to support its operations. Internally developed applications were used to prepare the offer and distribute over the internet to all stores. Another application was used to compare the supply against demand to find out imbalances. One more application kept track of theoretical inventory of. Each store transmitted the days sales through modems connected to one of the stores pos terminal.