H&M's Supply Chain Management Practices
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Case Details:
Case Code : OPER066
Case Length : 18 Pages
Period : 1997-2007
Organization : Hennes & Mauritz AB
Pub Date : 2008
Teaching Note :Not Available
Countries : Sweden
Industry : Apparel Retailing
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Excerpts Contd...
Distribution
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A large part of the finished products that were manufactured were shipped using
external contract companies to the central warehouse in Hamburg, Germany, which
served as the transit terminal. Logistics was managed centrally from the
company's headquarters in Stockholm.
Most of the goods from the production centers across the world passed through
this transit terminal on their way to the destination country.
The transit terminal received the goods from all the suppliers across the
world...
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Store Management
Before opening new stores or before entering a new market, H&M conducted
extensive research on the demographics of the consumers, spending power,
competition, and other factors that could contribute to the success of the
international venture...
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Conclusion
The entire operations in H&M - right from the designing to the store
management - were IT enabled.
The production offices and the central office were connected and the central
office distributed the designs and sketches to the production offices
through the Internet.
As most of the stores were owned by the company, they shared a common IT
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Exhibits
Exhibit I: H&M - International Expansion
Exhibit II: H&M Stores Country Wise (2006)
Exhibit III: H&M - Suppliers' Code of Conduct
Exhibit IV: H&M - Product and Information Flow
Exhibit V: H&M Five Year Financial Summary
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