Starbucks sources coffee beans from dozens of countries around the world, the vast majority of which come from Latin America, with Asia accounting for only a small portion of that total. Starbucks' local coffee products in China are sourced from Yunnan, China.

Starbucks Coffee Company, based in Seattle, WA, is the largest coffee producer and retailer in North America, with sales having grown more than 60 percent for eight consecutive years. It has grown from 11 retail stores in 1987 to 2,000, welcomes more than 4 million customers a week and has locations in major cities around the world.

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To be able to spread its stores all over the world, its supply chain:

Starbucks Corporation's supply chain has to support three kinds of channels: special channels, direct sales channels and retail channels. The specialty channel serves airlines and other retail stores, the direct channel handles mail order business, and the retail channel serves its own stores and joint venture stores. Starbucks Corporation uses a centralized supply chain operation to support all three channels simultaneously.

At the same time, Starbucks uses a build-to-stock model, and with the rise of modular design, production has evolved into site-specific assembly, which includes activities such as assembling, packaging, and labeling.