Background
First, let's talk about Transportation on a strategic scale. Start by completing the LinkedIn Learning Activity “Excel Supply Chain Analysis: Solving Transportation Problems” in Excel to help with creating models for Transportation.
Instructions
Deciding on a facility location (like a Distribution center or a Manufacturing plant) is a very important decision. What's impacted?
- Your cost to ship inbound products from suppliers and your cost to ship outbound products to customers, and
- Your customer service to the production line or customers.
And the fixed costs are very high, and therefore the cost to change a bad decision is very high! Let's compute a qualitative decision for a global location.
Additional Resources
- Global Location — Excel Template