2.a. What motivations typically cause firms to initiate a facilities location or
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2.a. What motivations typically cause firms to initiate a facilities location or relocation project? b. How do facility location decisions differ for service facilities and manufacturing plants? c. List 3 techniques/ methods are available for planning a facily location? d. Logistics Consultants Inc. (LCI) provides various logistics analysis services to other firms, including facility location decisions. They have just completed a project for a IE 3328 Management Systems Control Fall 2017 major customer, but on the eve of their presentation they discovered a computer malfunction partially deleted some of their data. One file that was impacted contains the final factor rating results. Following are the partial results they were able to recover. As you'll notice, some ratings are missing. Max Ratings Factor Availability of labor Availability of utilities Transportation infrastructure Warehousing availability/costs Proximity to customers Business climate Taxation structure PointsCityXCity Y 130 122 73 70 59 30 150 130 80 75 65 40 30 25 123 110 63 24 17 of life If you were the project manager for LCI, what would you do given that they you missing some crucial data? e. A small manufacturing facility is being planned that will feed parts to three heavy manufacturing facilities. The locations of the current plants with their coordinates and volume requirements are given in the following table: PLANT LACATION VOLUME (PARTS PER YEAR Peoria Decatur oliet 300, 320 375, 470 470, 180 4,000 6,000 3,000 Use the centroid method to determine a location for this new facility.Explanation / Answer
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