PLANT LOCATION The problem of how many facilities to have and where they should be located is encountered by service and product organization in both the public and private sectors. Banks‚ restaurants‚ recreation agencies‚ and manufacturing companies are all concerned with selecting sites that will best enable them to meet their long-term goals. Since the operation managers fixes many costs with the location decision‚ both the efficiency and effectiveness of the conversion process are dependent
Premium Steel Material Raw material
Location of Mecca | Coordinates: 21°25′0″N 39°49′0″ECoordinates: 21°25′0″N 39°49′0″E | Country | Saudi Arabia | Province | Makkah Province | Founded by | Prophet Ismā’īl‚ son of Abraham (Islamic tradition) | Government | • Mayor | Usama al-Bar | • Provincial Governor | Khalid al-Faisal | Area[1] | • Urban | 850 km2 (330 sq mi) | • Metro | 1‚200 km2 (500 sq mi) | Elevation | 277 m (909 ft) | Population (2012)[citation needed] | • City | 2‚000‚000 | • Density | 4‚200/km2
Premium Medina Muhammad 1st millennium
Social Location I was born and raised in Compton‚ California in the early 1970s to an unwed teenaged mom. Although my parents were never married‚ my father was always in the picture‚ until he began to abuse drugs and introduced them to my mother. Not wanting to have their granddaughter exposed to drugs‚ my grandparents took and raised me. Living in Compton in the 1970s‚ we were considered upper middle class because my grandparents owned their home‚ we had two cars and my grandfather worked
Premium Family Drug addiction
Politics of Location We are always trying to figure out where we are in this world‚ or how we got where we are today. Obviously you have no choice of parents or where your born and these are two major contributing factors of who am I today. Being born white and a male society has immediately granted social advantages or white privileges. But‚ how privileged was I really? Being born in a highly populated city to first generations Americans without high school diplomas. I did have some advantages
Premium High school Middle school Racism
FACILITY LOCATION There are many analytical techniques that can be used in facility location decisions.Some of these are: 1) Factor Rating 2) Cost-Profit-Volume analysis 3) Center of Gravity Method‚ etc FACTOR RATING METHOD It is most widely used analytical technique. it is most popular technique because a wide variety of factor can be included in the analysis .It is useful for service and industrial location. In this method to merge quantitative and qualitative factors‚ factors are assigned
Premium Mass Weight Costs
Location and Layout Case Study Layout of Quality Supermarket in Miami‚ Florida The Quality Supermarket Group operates over 75 retail outlets in Florida‚ of which there are around 10 local Miami/Fort Lauderdale supermarkets. Quality supermarkets compete both by choices of location‚ which are convenient for frequent shoppers‚ and by the quality of the products and service. To remain profitable every Quality manager must maximize the revenue and contribution per square metre but must also minimize
Premium Retailing Supermarket
Geo-Strategic Importance of Pakistan. Geo strategic means the importance of a country or a region as by virtue of its geographical location. Geo political is defined as‚ stressing the influence of geographic factors on the state power‚ international conduct and advantages it derives from its location. Stephen Cohn describes this importance “While history has been unkind to Pakistan‚ its geography has been its greatest benefit. It has resource rich area in the north-west‚ people rich in the north-east
Premium Asia Afghanistan Central Asia
Location Planning Basically‚ location is where the business situated at. According to the book‚ Operations Management: An Asian Perspective‚ by William Stevenson and Sum Chee Choung (2010)‚ Location decisions for many types of organizations are not are frequently‚ but location decisions tend to have a significant impact on the organization. Thus‚ location plays a vital part in the organization. So why do organizations need to make location decisions? First is that they may be a change in their
Premium Management
LOCATION STRATEGY/PROCESS STRATEGY 1. The locational factors considered in establishing the establishment. Answer: The preference in building an establishment should be one of the factors that an entrepreneur should be considered. As what I concretely observed in one fastfood restaurant i.e Jollibee Virac‚ the or its location is perfectly planned and planted. I can say that it is in perfect location because (1) it is in the vicinity of the center mall which obviously consumers always go there
Premium Fast food Burger King KFC
Start Here Discussion Board June 8‚ 2014 Social Location To begin I would like to define exactly what social location is‚ according to Henslin‚ "Social location is the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society. Social location has to do with a person’s age‚ race‚ gender‚ job‚ income‚ and education.” (Henslin 2015 pg2) Our book says‚ “To find out why people do what they do‚ we look at social location” (Henslin‚ 2015 pg3). And I believe it also tells who
Premium Sociology Middle class Wife