Chapter: 1 Facility Location Models 1.1 Introduction Facility Location is a geographic location of manufacturing/service facilities where transformation activities from inputs into the output are performed. Selecting a location of facilities is very crucial decision not only for manufacturing unit but also for service unit. Generally it is a strategic decision and involves lot of activities. It starts from identifying the suitable locations based on certain criteria and then evaluating all locations
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CASE STUDY: WALMART I. Executive Summary Walmart‚ biggest retail discounted store established by Sam Walton in 1950 has mark a remarkable success in the US. His strategy of purchasing in high volume while selling low and still gain a mark up made it more popular that made it enviable to competition. Secret to his concept is high volume purchases‚ efficient logistics‚ and advanced supply chain technology‚ which significantly reduced cost and maximize economies of scale. From its first store
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RO TLE D U GE Journal of Information Technology (2000) 15‚ 281–288 An ERP implementation case study from a knowledge transfer perspective Z OONKY L EE AND JINYOUL LE E Department of Management‚ College of Business Administration‚ University of Nebraska-Lincoln‚ Lincoln‚ NE 68588–0491‚ USA r & Fr ci s G an An enterprise resource planning (ERP) application is an enterprise-wide package that tightly integrates all necessary business functions into a single system with a shared
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Supermarket Psychology: Supermarket Layout watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3IwOgA3Ngw This video is about trolleyology. In simple words means make us easy in spending our money with use of psychology. The case is one customer had given a simple task in 3 minutes to shop 3 basic goods in the supermarket that never shopped before. It looks simple but actually it really hard where you will face with many disruptive things. Customers tend to shop at anti clock direction
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Wal-Mart is one of the largest retail markets in the world and continues to increase its revenue because of its products and services that are provided. I have to admit Wal-Mart has made a lot of money from me because it’s my one stop supermarket. I can go to Wal-Mart and find just about any and everything I’m looking for which makes my shopping experience just that much more supreme. Let me share some of the businesses history with you and its timeline. The very first store to open was in Rogers
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Hello‚ Wal-Mart? Ashford University BUS644 Operation Management Dr. Ronald Beach November 26‚ 2011 Hello‚ Wal-Mart? It is very common for everyone that lives in a small town to get all their groceries at Wal-Mart. During the last 50 years of creation‚ from a small town on Arkansas‚ Wal-Mart became the biggest retail company of the world. At this time‚ this company is one of the major employers of the world and has more than 4‚000 stores just in America. It is very difficult for a small
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markets. He argued that company must allocate one or more factors as to compete globally. Walmart is achieving the three competitive advantages simultaneously. As discussed above of the Walmart China‚ the company is taking the local responsiveness as through CSR event. Secondly‚ Walmart also realized economies of scale by selling bulks of commodities right off pallets‚ through its Sam’s Club under membership. Walmart also captured the benefits of arbitrage by constantly improving its logistics to lower
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after the hurricane camefrom Walmart‚ not from FEMA. The administrative particulars of Wal-Mart¶s response to thehurricane‚ detailed in a study by Steven Horwitz‚ are both fascinating and inspiring. Wal-Mart¶sexisting distribution chain was ± and is ± able to deliver needed goods faster and more efficientlythan a government agency‚ which (besides being inept) had no existing infrastructure to respondto the disaster. Regardless of its reputation or its value to society‚ Walmart is here to stay.Consumption
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PROCESS AND FACILITY SANITATION Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures is the common name give to the sanitation procedures in food production plants which are required by the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the USDA and regulated by 9 CFR part 416 in conjunction with 21 CFR part 178.1010. It is considered one of the prerequisite programs of HACCP. Introduction A clean surface is defined as being free from soil (e.g. food residues)‚ free from bad odours‚ be non-greasy to the touch
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WAL-MART In 1962‚ a middle-aged entrepreneur‚ Sam Walton had a goal‚ which was to give great value and great customer service. His strategy to do so was to have “The Lowest Prices Anytime‚ Anywhere”. And that’s what he did. By 1967‚ the Walton family owned 27 stores in the U.S with up to 12.7 million dollars in sales. ("Our story‚" 2012) Today‚ Wal-Mart’s prices are 15% lower compared to prices in other stores. The system’s motto always was‚ and still is‚ to keep prices low. (Dicker‚ 2005) Wal-Mart
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