Management and Organizational Studies 3330A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Centroid, Cross-Docking, Corporate Tax

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 3330A/B
• Professor: jennifer

Document Summary

Logistics: process of analyzing how to best locate warehouses and plants, evaluate movement of materials to and from these locations: moving goods through the supply chain. In determining best approach, have to consider all cost of delivery (transportation, inventory holding cost, packing cost, potential damages etc. ) Infrastructure available: total cost (cost to build, labour, energy costs, taxes, quality of labour, quality of supplier, political risk, other host community characteristics, environmental issues, other csr concerns, competitive advantage, existing industry clusters. Cy = y coordinate of the centroid d ix = x coordinate of the ith location d iy = y coordinate of the ith location. Vi = volume of goods moved to or from the ith location where, Example: the hioctane refining company needs to locate an intermediate holding facility between its refining plant in atlanta and its major distributors. The amount of gasoline shipped to or from the plant and distributors appears below.