The Location Analysis Technique Typically NOT Employed by Service Organizations

question 71

Multiple Choice

The location analysis technique typically NOT employed by service organizations is:

• A) the factor rating method.
• B) the center-of-gravity method.
• C) purchasing power analysis of area.
• D) traffic counts.
• E) crossover charts.

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Definitions:

Bullwhip Measure

A metric used to quantify the increase in variability of order sizes in the supply chain from downstream to upstream.

Bullwhip Measure

A method or metric used to quantify the degree of the bullwhip effect within a supply chain.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, used in statistics to quantify the variance from the mean.

Bullwhip Effect

The phenomenon where variations in demand at the retail level cause progressively larger fluctuations in demand at the wholesale, distributor, manufacturer, and raw material supplier levels.