Exam 11: Supply Chain Location Decisions

An operations manager has narrowed down the search for a new King Kola plant to three locations.Fixed and variable costs follow. Plot the total cost curves in the chart provided and identify the range over which each location would be best.Then use break-even analysis to calculate exactly the break-even quantity that defines each range. Which of the following statements is correct?

Table 11.1 Four departments are located in adjacent bays in the same loading dock.The distance between adjacent bays is 30 feet,the distance between bays separated by another (Alpha and Charlie,Bravo and Delta)is 60 feet,and the distance between Alpha and Delta is 90 feet.Material flows (loads)between departments are shown in the Table below. -Use the information from Table 11.1.Calculate the load distance for location Alpha.

A quantitative method used to evaluate single locations based primarily on proximity is:

A company has determined the "demand points" and their relative locations as follows: If a company desires to locate a manufacturing facility at the center of gravity,what would be the x and y coordinates of the facility?

Which of these is NOT a common functionality of a GIS?

________ is a strategy by which several competing firms cluster in one location to attract more customers than the total who would shop at the same stores at scattered locations.