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    IKEA’s GLOBAL SOURCING CHALLENGE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The IKEA Group‚ one of the world’s top furniture retailers‚ has emerged as the fastest-growing furniture retailer in the US. Its unique business strategy has given it its strengths for its success today. However‚ like all strategies‚ IKEA’s strategy has its own flaws that can pose as weaknesses. IKEA also has a lot of opportunities in the marketplace such as expansions of their company and threats such as competitors in the same industry

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    IKEA: Global Sourcing Challenge [Name of Student] [Name of University] IKEA: Global Sourcing Challenge IKEA is a world beloved Swedish furniture company that started in 1943 as a mail-order business that offered goods purchased from low-priced suppliers. Its founder‚ Ingvar Kamprad helped grew IKEA into a multi-billion manufacturer and producer of self-assembled furniture as it is known today (IKEA‚ 2011). Key to why IKEA products are embraced by people beside quality that

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    IKEA’s Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor Executive Summary Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in the early 1950s and served as CEO until 1986. By the mid-1990s the company was the world’s largest specialized furniture retailer. Kamprad broke the mold of the traditional furniture maker and went outside of the Swedish furniture cartel. He built relationships with outside suppliers and forged a unique business model featuring exhibition retail displays highlighting a broad range of functional

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    Ikea Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor IKEA and Marianne Barner are facing a very challenging issue. Because they were blind sided by the child labor issues with their supplier‚ they had to scramble to respond to the issues in a quick and appropriate manner. IKEA sent a legal team to Geneva to seek input and advice from the International Labor Organization on how to deal with the problem and to find out more about the child labor issues. They also hired a third party agent

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    IKEA’s Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A) and (B) Questions to the (A) case: 1. Marianna Barner should decline the invitation for IKEA to have a representative appear on the upcoming forecast of the German video program. The producers of the documentary invited them to take part in a live discussion during the airing‚ and while this offer does sound beneficial for IKEA to educate the public and the producers of the current efforts taken to fight child labor‚ it would not be

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    Ikea Global Sourcing Case Study Ama Achiaw Business Strategy Executive Summary IKEA is being forced to make a difficult decision after a German documentary maker announced the prevalence of children working at looms at Rangan Exports‚ a major supplier of the furniture company. Rangan Exports breached a supply contract with IKEA by allowing child labor in their factory. In previous years‚ IKEA has encountered problems with child labor and has worked diligently to educate themselves and respond

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    IKEA’s Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A) Case Synopsis IKEA is a “privately held‚ international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks‚ appliances and home accessories” (www.worldisyouroyster.com). The company was established in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad in Sweden when he was just 17 years old. Kamprad himself‚ who still owns the private company‚ is rumored to be the world’s richest man. IKEA is currently the world

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    1. How should Marianne Barner respond to the invitation for IKEA to have a representative appear on the upcoming broadcast of the German video program? A. Although Marianne Barner knows that the broadcast of the German video program is aimed at aggressively confronting IKEA and one of its suppliers‚ in my opinion she should accept the invitation for IKEA to have a representative appear on the video program. Because the IKEA’s philosophy says that anyone can make mistake but he/she should accept

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    Proposal Case: IKEA Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor Summary In this case‚ it is known that IKEA ’s procurement model is the mode of global sourcing. IKEA products are shipped to the 26 distribution centres from the trade area after procurement‚ and then delivered to the shopping malls in the world. IKEA ’s procurement philosophy and assessment of suppliers mainly include four aspects: continuous price improvement; strict supplier performance and service levels;

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    1) IKEA is a successful global furniture company‚ which was founded as a mail order business earlier. The vision of IKEA was to create a better life for the many people‚ besides offering qualitative products with affordable prices‚ IKEA was trying to be environmental friendly and social responsible. Nevertheless‚ the flourish of IKEA also brought some problems‚ and IKEA was currently seeking a better way to deal with the child labor issues of its suppliers. 2) IKEA was facing a harsh issue due

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