We first discuss the dilemmas that fashion retailers face when organising the supply chain and the contribution of logistics and transport to its functional and geographical integration. This paper on Inditex, a Spanish leading group in the fashion sector, analyses how transport and logistics fit into the production network and provide the firm with one of its most notable competitive advantages. In addition the challenges presented by the functional and geographical integration of fashion production networks can only be overcome if global retailers manage their logistics efficiently and leverage the differentiated advantages of the modes of transport in relation to time. The supply chains of big fashion retailers provide a good example because the choice of global or local supply depends on whether suppliers rely on efficient transport and logistics systems that let them compensate for higher relative costs compared with developing countries -in the case of local supply- or the costs deriving from their greater distance to the market -in the case of global supply. Nevertheless efficient logistics and transport services are essential to an understanding of their organisational and geographical structure. Recent geographical analyses of global production networks in different economic sectors demonstrate that little attention has been paid to the logistical and transport systems through which networks are fully integrated. The concept of the global production network expressively covers the spatial interrelationships characteristic of the economy due to the existence of worldwide flows of information, raw materials, components, and finished products. Investigaciones Geográficas está indexada en: Scopus, CONACYT, Geographical Abstracts Periódica, Current, Geographical Publications, GeoDados, BIOBASE, ASFA, Redalyc, Latindex, Portal de Revistas Científicas y arbitradas de la UNAM SciELO-México y SciELO. ¿ Ser de interés para un público amplio y/o tener impacto sobre otras disciplinas. ¿ĝiscutir de manera amplia las implicaciones de los resultados en el marco de una revisión exhaustiva de la literatura reciente o apropiada a la temática
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