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Operations Management Chapter 8: Location Planning and Analysis Topics include: The Need for Location Decisions The Nature of Location Decisions Global Locations General Procedure for Making Location Decisions Identifying a Country, Region, Community, and Site Service and Retail Locations Evaluating Location Alternatives 0:00 Introduction 0:07 Location Decisions: Strategically Important 0:59 Location Decisions: Objectives 2:08 Location: Options 2:49 Global Location: Facilitating Factors 3:34 Managing Global Operations 6:19 Location Decision: General Procedure 6:52 Service and Retail Locations 9:07 Evaluating Location Alternatives 9:25 Example: Cost-Profit-Volume Analysis 10:50 Example: Factor Rating 12:30 Transportation Problem 14:26 Finding Initial Solution 15:43 Improved Solution 16:30 Center of Gravity Method 18:09 Chapter 8 Summary
