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Track: Business Services: Marketing and Advertising
Surya Sahoo
Federal Express Corporation
2831 Airways Blvd
Memphis, TN 38132
Telephone: 901-395-7327
Fax: 901-395-7451
E-mail: snsahoo@fedex.com
The GIS Approach toward Development of a Facility Location Model
The present age is an era of dynamism, growth, and efficiency, where the demands of people are more oriented toward service commitment. To meet the challenges of the 21st century, Fedex is always striving toward new technology, expanding its existing facilities and adding new improved facilities worldwide. Currently there is no automated system or methodology for locating facilities such as station (sorting, courier loading/unloading facility), dispatch centers, and so forth. This paper focuses on an ongoing project, "
Based Facility Location Model," which determines the optimum location for a given number of stations and also allocates service areas to a station. This project will encompass the creation of a GIS application using ArcView/Avenue, system interfaces, database conversion, and a communication interface to interact with selected existing systems. The proposed integrated system will allow users to define/redefine area of interest, provide user interface to edit modeling parameters, and
formulate and analyze "what if"scenarios. This system will also provide the ability to query database, produce maps and reports, and include spatial analysis procedures to evaluate site suitability.
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