MGT310 – Operations Management
Order Description
write a short consultants report
Words limit: 1100 words
Task:
Wagga Class Furniture is involved in manufacturing both home and office furniture. They have a limited range of products and one of these accounts for more than half
their sales (in terms of revenue). The company has hired you to help them determine the best location for their plant. It believes that in order to facilitate its
strategy of responsiveness to customer need and unsurpassed quality, it is essential that the new manufacturing plant be located as near to their suppliers as
possible. Suppliers for the company are mainly located within the state although some material is sourced elsewhere.
As the first step to the exercise, the company has provided you the following data that offers the location of the suppliers and the number of units ordered from each
of them. The 2nd and 3rd columns represent X and Y coordinates (in km) from its existing main office.
You are requested to write a short consultants report to the senior management of Wagga Class Furniture highlighting important plant location information relative to
the suppliers. Include data on location study, and any other information that would be essential for determinning the best location of the plant. Your report should
also be accompanied with a plot of the coordinates of the suppliers location and the required analysis the graph bellows to determine the best location for the plant.
(See the graph bellows: you will see “the centre of the gravity” which is the best plant location calculated by POM program)
Also, in your report explain the limitations of the above centre of gravity approach, what other factors you would consider and what technique or techniques you would
use (consider other factors like: Tangible and intangible factors…….Discuss what other factors they would consider and how other factors can be accommodated in
different techniques.), and provide your recommendations to senior management of Wagga Class Furniture so that they can achieve their strategy of responsiveness to
customer need and unsurpassed quality .