You learned the importance of the functional areas of organizations and the ways they interrelate. You must now focus on current business issues that affect operations management.
You have been given the task of choosing the location for your organization’s new factory.
Discuss and compare organizational strategy in determining the location.
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Using the selected case study (attached):
Write a paper in which you describe how you will spearhead the task of choosing the location for the new factory.
Be sure to address at least four of the following in your paper:
-Operations management
-Competitiveness and strategy
-Forecasting
-Product and service design
-Strategic capacity planning
-Decision theory
-Work design and measurement
-Learning curves
-Location planning
-Techniques to evaluate location alternatives