Management and Organizational Studies 3330A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Silicon Valley, Centroid, Corporate Tax

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

Document Summary

Logistics: moving goods through the supply chain, process of analyzing how to best locate warehouses and plants, evaluate movement of materials to and from these locations. Decisions related to logistics: how are we going to best transport goods from plants to customers, highway, water, air, rail, pipeline. In determining best approach, have to consider all costs of delivery (transportation, inventory holding costs, packing costs, potential damages, etc. ) Infrastructure available: quality of labour, quality of suppliers, political risk, other host community characteristics, environmental issues, other csr concerns, competitive advantages, existing industry clusters (ex. Determining best plant location: three main approaches, factor-rating systems, centroid method, transportation method of linear programming. Example: four critical success factors, cost of land (35 weighting, distance from key suppliers (30, ability to hire skilled personnel (20, corporate tax rates (15) Cy = y coordinate of the centroid dix = x coordinate of the ith location diy = y coordinate of the ith location.