Facility Location Planning

In this course, you will learn the different factors affecting Facility location planning including examples. You will also learn about the different methods which can help in identification of most optimal location of a business facility like corporate office, retail stores, manufacturing facility etc. The right location of a facility plays a pivotal role in determining the success of operations and profitability of the facility. For example, if a manufacturing facility is located at a place where proper raw material or labor is not available, then the location will not be able to run smoothly. Similarly, if a retail outlet/store is at a location where the customers do not need the products, then the store will not be able to run profitably.

This course can be useful for students studying operations management, professionals working in IT industry responsible for designing software which helps in deciding the location of a business facility. There will be 11 lectures in the course covering the main topics of facility location planning.

Following are the lectures that are part of the facility location planning course- Factors affecting facility location, Fundamentals of Factor location rating method, Fundamentals of Break-even analysis, Fundamentals of Center of Gravity method, Fundamentals of Simple Median model and Fundamentals of Transportation model. This will also cover examples of each of these topics.