Zara Clothing Stores Has Developed a System That Can Order

Multiple Choice

Zara clothing stores has developed a system that can order new fashions and deliver them to the store in only three weeks. The system begins inside the store via Internet communications between store manager and headquarters. As soon as a manager notices that a certain item is selling especially well,the manager can send a new order out from the store and give suggestions for new colours and designs. Next,designers and managers receive the information and match it with suggestions from other Zara store managers. Designers then draw up the new styles and send the patterns to Zara factories in Spain,where they are made. The clothes reach Zara's stores within 48 hours. What is Zara using to pass information to the next person in the line of development?

A) standardization  
B) sequential interdependence  
C) pooled interdependence  
D) manager empowerment