ONE PARAGRAPH MINIMUM ON EACH QUESTION PLEASE 92 How have co

ONE PARAGRAPH MINIMUM ON EACH QUESTION PLEASE

9-2. How have cost considerations influenced facility location decisions?

9-3. In what way is the location of customer markets a strategic consideration in facility location?

9-5. How does a raw material’s status as pure, weight-losing, or weight-gaining influence the facility location decision?

12-2. Why is it important to know about the characteristics of a country’s transportation infrastructure?

12-5. How do truckload operations differ from less-than-truckload operations?

Solution

Question 1

Determining the acceptability of a location, the cost of relocating facilities to a site requires the existing buildings to be tailored so as to fit the operations from scratch. This implies that even though the cost of the land may be cheap, but to making it workable might be expensive, thus calling for cost considerations before location decisions are made asserts (MacCarthy & Atthirawong, 2003).

Question 2

According to Thursby and Thursby (2006), by organizations expanding their geographic scope to serve new customers, it implies that economic growth serves as a variable that influences the location of customer markets.

Question 3

Since a pure raw material is one that loses no weight in manufacturing processing point can be anywhere near the raw material source and the market. On the other, Weight-losing products lose weight during processing and thus the processing point should be near their source to avoid unnecessary transportation charges. Because weight-gaining products gain weight during processing, their processing point should be close to the market (Thursby & Thursby, 2006).

Question 4

Owing to the fact that increasing number of shipments is transported between multiple countries, a country’s knowledge helps in averting potential problems as supported by Gunnigle and McGuire (2001). Therefore, it is important to understand the transportation infrastructure of a country to prevent the problems that are likely to occur.

Question 5

Whereas truckload operations carriers focus on shipments of greater than 10,000 pounds depending on the product, less-than-truckload on the other hand ranges from about 150– 10,000 pounds. Moreover, truckload operation tends to move directly from the shipper’s location to the consignee’s location while the less-than-loaded operations are routed through terminals writes (Gunnigle & McGuire, 2001).

References

Gunnigle, P., & McGuire, D. (2001). Why Ireland? A qualitative review of the factors influencing the location of US multinationals in Ireland with particular reference to the impact of labour issues. Economic and Social Review, 32(1), 43-68.

MacCarthy, B. L., & Atthirawong, W. (2003). Factors affecting location decisions in international operations-a Delphi study. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 23(7), 794-818.

Thursby, J. G., & Thursby, M. C. (2006). Here or There? a survey of factors in multinational R&D location: report to the Government/University/Industry research roundtable. A Survey of Factors in Multinational R&D Location: Report to the Government/University/Industry Research Roundtable (December 1, 2006). Kauffman Foundation Large Research Projects Research.