Analysis and Reflection of IKEA’s Supply Chain Management

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10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_19How to use a DOI?

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Supply Chain; IKEA; Sustainability; Future Furniture Industry

Abstract

This paper will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of IKEA’s supply chain management, and discuss the future development direction of IKEA in the context of the home furnishing industry based on related literature. The result shows that, as a furniture retailer, IKEA has become an industry giant due to its advantages in supply chain management. Firstly, Ikea’s supply chain is sustainable, using IWAY management principles while introducing energy-efficient materials on the production side. Secondly, Ikea’s supply chain has always been customer-concentric. However, there is also a great deal of room for improvement in IKEA’s supply chain as a multinational company, such as controlling costs in entering new markets. At the same time, the outbreak of COVID-19 also reflects the lack of flexibility in Ikea’s supply chain. Finally, this paper believes that the future development direction of furniture will be more and more closely combined with e-commerce, people can choose more and more convenient ways.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ximeng Han
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/27
TI  - Analysis and Reflection of IKEA’s Supply Chain Management
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 154
EP  - 160
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_19
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_19
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