Professional Documents
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• Types of Facilities
• Site Selection: Where to Locate
• Global Supply Chain Factors
• Location Analysis Techniques
• Heavy-manufacturing facilities
• large, require a lot of space, and are expensive
• Light-industry facilities
• smaller, cleaner plants and usually less costly
• Retail and service facilities
• smallest and least costly
• Land costs
• Transportation costs
• Proximity to markets
• depending on delivery requirements
including frequency of delivery required by
customer
• Proximity to customers
• Location is everything
• Tax credits
• Relaxed government regulation
• Job training
• Infrastructure improvement
• Money
WEIGHTED SCORES
Site 1 Site 2 Site 3
24.00 19.50 27.00
20.00 18.20 15.00
Site 3 has the
9.00 14.25 10.80
highest factor rating
11.25 12.00 12.00
6.50 9.00 9.50
4.25 4.60 3.25
2.50 3.25 4.50
77.50 80.80 82.05
x1 x2 x3 x
400
D
300
A (60)
200 (75)
100
n
yiWi
i=1 (200)(75) + (500)(105) + (600)(135) + (300)(60)
y= = = 444
n 75 + 105 + 135 + 60
Wi
i=1
400
D
300
A (60)
200 (75)
100
Formula for
x coordinate
dC = 434.2 dD = 184.4
Compute load-distance
n
LD = ld i i
i=1
Site 1 = (75)(161.2) + (105)(412.3) + (135)(434.2) + (60)(434.4) = 125,063
Site 2 = (75)(333) + (105)(323.9) + (135)(226.7) + (60)(170) = 99,789
Site 3 = (75)(206.2) + (105)(180.3) + (135)(200) + (60)(269.3) = 77,555*
* Choose site 3
=B7*C11+C7*C12+D7*C13+E7*C14