L6 Facility planning - Location decision

Question 1

Site selection approach

Answer 1

1. Community selection

2. Specific site selection

Question 2

Community selection

Answer 2

• Look at company needs (personnel requirement, utility requirement)
• Shortlist 3 to 6 communities
• Evaluation through a grading system
• Community with highest total is selected

Question 3

Specific site selection

Answer 3

Same approach as before

• Shortlist candidates
• Evaluation through grading system
• Highest total is selected

Question 4

Weakness of Site selection approach

Answer 4

Evaluation factors tend to be assessed independently and long-term interactions between the factors are often not considered.