Facility location planning is also required for providing a cost-benefit to the organization.

A facility should not be located at a place where raw materials are available. This is necessary for maintaining continuity in the production process.

This location selection technique requires organizations to identify factors that influence location decision.

This location selection technique emphasizes on transportation cost in the determination of facility location.

This location selection technique evaluates multiple transportation routes of shipping goods from multiple origins to multiple destinations and finds or develops the least cost route.

Defined as the arrangement of machinery, equipment, and other amenities in a facility.

This layout is also called straight line layout.

This type of facility layout is used to assemble products that are too large.

This type of layout is characterized by the grouping together of similar machines, based upon their operational characteristics.

The need for location selection may arise when the business is newly started.

The need for location selection may arise when the lease expires, and the landlord does not renew the lease.

The facility should ideally be located at a place where raw materials are unavailable.

Flooding is a factor under construction cost.

Wetlands is a factor under social land use.

Supermarkets commonly use retail layout.

Is a graphical presentation of processes performed by an organization

In this technique, a grid displays the ratings of the relative importance of the distance between different departments of an organization

The objectives of service facility layouts differ from those of manufacturing facility layouts.

This type of layout is designed by considering the frequency of order items that are ordered frequently are placed near the facility entrance.