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BIS $963$ OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Assignment $6($Location Decisions$)$

The Problem:

As an OM in a maintenance service provider Company, you have been assigned by your company's board of directors to select a central location in the Mena Region that would serve as a central headquarter to provide your services to the $12$ cities shown in the table below. You may assume the number of team members dispatched from the HQ to each of the cities per month is proportional to the city population. Find the location of the new DC using the COG method as presented in lecture.

$($You may apply Google Map to determine coordinates of the cities$)$

City

City

Cairo

Jedda

Alexandria

Dubai

$3$ Beirut

$4$

Kwait city

Tripoli $($West$)$

Manama

$5$ Suez

Duha

$6$ Riyadh

Aswan

$1$

$2$

Why?

$7$

$8$

$9$

$10$

$11$

$12$

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BIS $963$ OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Submission:

Write a report that should not be less than $3$ pages $($use figures and graphs whenever necessary$).$

a$)$ Send your report via Moodle Platform

b$)$ Always list down the references you've used at the end of your memo report.

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