Alice Hong Gu

Engaging in IKEA Circular Innovation global project, focusing on assessing and developing a profitable and sustainable business model for IKEA Circular Business, steering and verifying if topic is ready for global scalable. Applying reverse supply chain / logistic method into IKEA way of working, identify opportunities and challenges across company's value chain, to achieve even better result.

This includes:

• PnL Management
• Project Finance
• Reverse Supply Chain analysis
• Process digitalization
• Circular Economy Insights

IKEA Food has kicked off business transformation from Ingka IKEA to Inter IKEA managed range and supply strategy. During transformation journey, which includes people transformation, business process / supply transformation as well as strengthening digital capabilities across global organization. Aiming to establishing even stronger IKEA Food range and supply business, creating compliant food offer from an optimized global and regional supply chain set up.

This includes:

• Performance Management (KPI reporting)
• Managerial Finance (global budget planning, cost mgmt, etc.)
• Business Optimization (Process development)
• Business Transformation Steering

Business Information Purchasing is global Performance Management team across IKEA Supply chain around the world. This team is supporting Purchasing Organization in decision making and achieving result by delivering relevant and accurate information at right time based on business needs.

This includes:

• Performance Reporting (in the area of Purchasing, Logistic, Quality, Sustainability, etc.)
• KPI training via structured communication
• Data Management (across all operation activities)
• Stakeholder Management (across IKEA value chain)

Supporting global plastic organization sourcing group with RFQ (request for quotation) work:

• Analyzing the price offer from suppliers across the world
• Assessing the demand forecasting from each region
• Comparing supplier's production capacity and quality
• Evaluating supplier's finance situation
• Proposing the volume allocation towards competitive suppliers

• Study Abroad: Managerial Finance - Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
• Sustainable Plastic Packaging Project, IKEA Purchasing, Completed 2018