10. Locating Facilities and Designing Their Layout
10.11. Summary of the Chapter
Part of the design of the service conversion or delivery process consists of location and site selection. Location selection is the macro decision about the general regions or metropolitan areas in which the business is to be established. Site selection is the micro decision as to the specific pieces of property for the business location.
Several methods for evaluating locations, including factor weighting, center of gravity, Bowman and Stewart’s warehouse model, and optimization criteria were discussed. For the site-selection problem, a variety of gravity or spatial interaction models, along with another factor-weighting example, and the location set covering ...
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