IKEA incorporates environmentally friendly efforts into day-to-day business and continuously supports initiatives that benefit causes such as children and the environment. To cut transportation costs, IKEA uses flat packaging; customers assemble the products at home. 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