INTM 543 PURCHASING IKEA SUPPLY CHAIN November 2012 1. INTRODUCTION Ikea is a Swedish international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture. It was founded in 1947 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad‚ who currently is one of the richest people in the world. He borrowed some money for his parents and create a small local furniture store‚ 65 years later Ikea is one of the leading home furnishing companies in the world with its vision to ‘’create a better
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MARKETING MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY Synopsis This case study is to deliberate about IKEA’s marketing strategy in reaching out customers. Also discussing about IKEA’s business idea and IKEA follows a quite traditional pattern of internationalizing and also drives the localization thoughts in different market place to stay competitive. Their vision “To create a better everyday life for the many” and their ultimate business idea “ To offer a wide range of well designed‚ functional home furnishing
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INTRODUCTION: IKEA was founded in the year 1943 and is known as the world’s largest home furnishing retailer renowned for its Scandinavian style. The first store of IKEA was launched in Warrington in 1987.The main product includes flat-pack ranging from home furniture and accessories with 9500 products. The broad range products are obtainable in all IKEA stores. The stores are located worldwide and they even developed online website. The stores products vary from restaurants‚ cafes
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Table of Contents Inventory Management 2 Demand Forecasting 6 Procurement 7 Transportation 10 Customer Service 12 Performance Management 13 Technology 15 References 17 INVENTORY MANAGEMENT Inventory management is an important part of logistics at IKEA as the company has more than 11‚000 articles. The Store Logistics Manager is accountable for ensuring adherence to inventory routines and more specifically‚ the Sales and Supply Support Manager and the Goods Flow Manager are responsible
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of1960s‚ IKEA has grown to a multinational generating billions of dollars in revenue with operation in more than 40 countries globally. In its formative years‚ IKEA initially sold very basic items such as wallets‚ jewelry‚ watches and frames among other items which were lowly priced. Though it tries to cope with the economic capability of its consumers‚ today the company sells home accessories‚ kitchen appliances‚ furnishings and ready to assemble furniture among other items. Today‚ IKEA is the world’s
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customer service through Ask Anna‚ IKEA’s customer service web bot. IKEA Company apply the concept about segmentation to attract their customer. The similarity on both website are the guideline the content inside also very easy to understand. Nowadays‚ online shopping not only Youngers right many elderly start to buy online product. For the IKEA website they provide cookie in both U.K. and Malaysia website. Base on this system IKEA Company can easily statistic which group of customers have heavy user
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science of analysing‚ formulating‚ and implementing decision that enable an organization moving towards to archive its organizational goals and objectives. Strategic management process consists of three major stages which is strategy analysis‚ strategy formulation and also strategy implementation. At the strategy analysis stage‚ a firm‚ in this assignment IKEA will identify and evaluate its external and internal environment. External environment can be further divided into general environment and also
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History of IKEA IKEA‚ the world’s largest furniture manufacturer‚ began from humble roots near Agunnayrd‚ Sweden. In the late 20’s and early 30’s a young Ingvar Kamprad began buying matchsticks in bulk‚ only to sell them individually to neighbors for a small margin. The business savvy boy expanded his sales to include Christmas cards‚ seeds‚ pens and pencils. But it wasn’t until‚ at the age of 17 with money he received from his father for his academic performance‚ did Ingvar have the means
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MNE The Case IKEA 1 IHRM: A Key Factor For Success Of A MNE – An Introduction 1.1 The three components of IHRM – a description 1.2 Key elements concerning IHRM – the details 1.2.1 Recruitment 1.2.2 Training and Development 1.2.3 Performance measurement 1.2.4 Compensation 2 The expansion of a Swedish MNE to China – an example 2.1 Sweden and China – a comparison 2.2 The “IKEA way” – an international company from Sweden 2.3 Changes due to an expansion of IKEA to China – the
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Introduction IKEA is a Swedish company which was founded in 1943 with its headquarter in Denmark. IKEA succeeded on its low cost strategy which is able to offer a wide range of stylish home furniture with good design and functional at competitive pricing. It carries a range of nearly 10‚000 products and is well known across the world. IKEA is also recognized as a socially responsible and environmental friendly company. Currently‚ there are 287 IKEA stores in 26 countries. In year 2011‚ IKEA has gained
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