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My local IKEA (and others in Germany I've been to) has an inventory number on a tag of every item. Next to it is the shelf number and section within that shelf where I can find that particular item in the warehouse. IKEA also provides pencils and small pieces of paper with lists already printed on them to jot down any shelf + section + inventory numbers of stuff you want to grab.

Is it not like this in your local IKEAs?

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For big things yes. For loose items, like bedding, nope.

Out here there are kiosks in the warehouse portion that will give you the location of all the big parts. Smaller stuff will typically be listed under e.g. "electronics", so in general I'd say if you know what you want you can skip looking twice. Additionally you can actually ask the staff. When I asked for the location of all the parts for a Malm bed the guy printed out a whole list of the required boxes and their respective locations.

Unfortunately there's no direct route between the entrance and the warehouse.

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