Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2022)

Analysis and Reflection of IKEA’s Supply Chain Management

Authors
Ximeng Han1, *
1University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, G12 8QQ
*Corresponding author. Email: hxm0130@163.com
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Ximeng Han
Available Online 27 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_19How to use a DOI?
Keywords
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2022)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
27 December 2022
ISBN
78-94-6463-098-5
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_19How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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