Woolworth's Values: Quality And Style Of Woolworths

Woolworths is a significant part of the Australian community and are aware that their actions and operations do have an impact beyond their immediate interactions with customers, employees and shareholders. A result, they are also concerned with reconciling and aligning the demands, needs, interests, and values with suppliers, communities, the environment, and society at large (ICAA, 2011).

Global sourcing is a technique of strategic sourcing in the global strategy, which is an effective approach as a part of organization’s procurement section. The objective of global sourcing is to develop global efficiencies in the delivery of a product or service for the firms achieving a sustainable competitive advantage and this is an important weapon have been focused in the 21st Century. The well-known organization, Hennes and Mauritz (H&M) is one of the largest international fashion retail and production house with the great deal of businesses all over the world. In the today’s competitive market and

As the Operation and Production Department we strive for excellence by providing superior quality products in an efficient manner in order to guarantee customer satisfaction.

-To consistently provide our customers with impeccable service by demonstrating warmth, graciousness, efficiency, knowledge, professionalism and integrity in our work.

to achieve the highest returns for our clients and to deliver a client experience that is second to none in the industry.

To be client-driven and maintain consistency in delivering the quality products and services in the most cost-effective

Of the hundreds of named brand clothing that form part of the retail and fashion industry I chose to compare, for my analysis, Abercrombie & Fitch, Forever 21, American Eagle, and H&M. These stores are prominent, well-known for selling apparel, shoes, and accessories by the means of offering sales and promotions to their customers. This is a clever strategy for attracting customers, allowing them to believe that they bought goods at affordable, convenient prices – and not to mention the prestigious name prescribed to the clothing brands. Using keyhole.co as my main source, I obtained relevant and valuable information regarding the status of these brands. My intentions were to compare a period of 14 days, however, due to the limited access that I received from my free trial, the program only allowed me to see fewer of the dates than I anticipated. I want to take this opportunity and mention ahead of time that due to the various and distinctive products that are sold from these stores, when looking for the “spending capacity” I decided to focus on shirts/ jeans for men and women and compare the prices among them since each of these retailers carry those items and as a way to make this report easier to contrast and comprehend. Also, when approaching the section of “setting”, I screen-shotted some of the images on Instagram and made them into a collage to separate the type of clothes and trends that each of these brands sell currently. In the following modules

Along with our skill, experience and expertise we pride ourselves on being a reputable company who produce quality results with professional attitudes.

For this capability, strong financial support and effective saving processes as fundamental resources enable Woolworths Ltd to provide products at relatively lower prices. The effective saving processes include the global sourcing process and direct store deliveries also play an important role to achieve competitive prices by reducing inventory costs and operating costs. Besides, the long term and good relationships with suppliers makes Woolworths get this capability to get lower cost products. Then combining the online network and existing delivery system makes customers purchase more conveniently. Last, Woolworths Ltd is also engaging in product expansion in different industries.

WQA has sections which specifically cover ‘Good Manufacturing Practice’ (GMP) as well as ‘Document Control’, ‘Cleaning Procedures’ and ‘Pest Control’. In terms of GMP, the WQA lists approximately 22 policies and procedures which must be adhered to and records of verification of adherence which must be kept. These policies and procedures cover just about everything from ‘Personnel Hygiene Policy’ to ‘Packaging’. As with most sections of WQA it is very comprehensive.

2. Richard M. Johns (2006). The Apparel Industry. 2nd ed. UK, London: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.. 1-124.

As a clothing store which is focusing on local designed and European designed clothes, our products are going to be high-end, fashionable, green and unique.

This model is relating to Primark. Primark source globally, they don’t have their own factories that make their own products. They work with around 700 suppliers and all of their suppliers are from China, India and Bangladesh to Turkey and Eastern Europe. They take worker welfare seriously and they make sure that suppliers must follow the Code of Conduct to make products in good working conditions. Every factory of the suppliers is carefully inspected against the code before Primark replace and order with a supplier. If there is an any issues or problems they find in the products they will sent their inspected team to check all the products.

Leading the industry by providing personal, honest and effective service that results in an advantageous business relationship with our customers, partners and suppliers;

Their goals are to convey the absolute best quality in all that they do, from essential deliver, selections of providers and transport, to formulas and bundling materials.