Lecture 8 Location Planning and Analysis
Operations Management Chapter 8: Location Planning and Analysis
Topics include:
The Need for Location Decisions
The Nature of Location Decisions
Global Locations
General Procedure for Making Location Decisions
Identifying a Country, Region, Community, and Site
Service and Retail Locations
Evaluating Location Alternatives
0:00 Introduction
0:07 Location Decisions: Strategically Important
0:59 Location Decisions: Objectives
2:08 Location: Options
2:49 Global Location: Facilitating Factors
3:34 Managing Global Operations
6:19 Location Decision: General Procedure
6:52 Service and Retail Locations
9:07 Evaluating Location Alternatives
9:25 Example: Cost-Profit-Volume Analysis
10:50 Example: Factor Rating
12:30 Transportation Problem
14:26 Finding Initial Solution
15:43 Improved Solution
16:30 Center of Gravity Method
18:09 Chapter 8 Summary