Service Facility Location

Issued by Penn State College of Engineering

Earners of this badge are knowledgeable with the building blocks of facility location problems, factors influencing facility location decisions, and techniques of evaluating facility locations, specifically, (i) factor rating method, (ii) cost-volume-profit analysis, (iii) center-of-gravity method, (iv) set covering problem, (v) maximum covering problem, and (vi) facility location - distribution problem.

Type Learning
Level Intermediate
Cost Paid

Skills

Operations Management
Service Facility Location
Service Location Problem (FLP)

Earning Criteria

Completion of three content modules, learning quizzes, and a case study module.
A final case study.