IKEA’s supply chain has a global spread with growing sales and purchasing in
all major regions of the world. What makes its supply chain really complex is
that its stores are spread across many countries, that it has 1220 suppliers in
55 different countries making its furniture and that the stores are supplied
from 31 central distribution centres in 16 different countries or directly from
suppliers. In some cases, an IKEA store opening is a national event, with
people sometimes travelling hundreds of kilometres to shop there