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Why IKEA Has No Replacement-Parts API
A purchasing manager wants to query a part number and get back three things: availability, discontinued status, and the official replacement. That capability is standardized — GS1's Global Data Model has defined replacement semantics for years — but it lives inside GDSN, a heavyweight batch master-data network built for grocery supply chains. Meanwhile IKEA publishes no developer API at all, Grainger and ULINE expose their catalogs through PunchOut sessions and EDI rather than queryable endpoints, and the only clean machine-readable versions come from scrapers and community projects running…
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