Case Study: Eldora Co.

Starting from a company of less than 75 workers and owning less than 20,000 SCU for production, research, quality assurance and conduct warranty work Off The Chain Bikes has doubled the plant capacity and hearing doubling the workforce within two short years. The company is successful by targeting and capturing lucrative market shares by heavily investing in the desired technical specs and design styles of one of the most influential Racing bikes. Our keen ability to thoroughly research market demands, predicting competitive strategies between the four market majority shareholders by reviewing and interpreting the marketing reports and our aggressive design and development plans have significantly increased our market share and increase shareholder value. Our core competencies and strategic goals will be realized by carefully following our established plans and aggressively price our bikes to increase total market share.

The company also should consider other factors in choosing the location of the plant including:

The Recommendation proposed here presented a global location selection reference tool for identifying key competences for potential sites and suggested how these competences can be used effectively and strategically in company’s supply chain. Additionally, the recommendation was addressed based on the assumption of locating all manufacturing stages at one site for worldwide distribution.

The first warehousing strategy is to be located near plants, with the demand going off of manufactures. The other type of warehousing strategies is being located near market. This is the last mile drive to the customers where companies can increase coverage of their product. Jim Manno said with the strategies are dependent on conditions such as drivers and equipment issues. (Jim Manno) It is also the cost of doing business that needs to be looked at when determining which to choose. These costs could be fuel, labor costs, union strikes that happen at ports in California. (teamsters) These 3PL distribution centers in the area such has Sonwil look to mitigate the risks of acquisitions and mergers that happen when larger companies buy out a smaller company. For example when WhiteWave foods merged with Dannon, warehouses would’ve lost a customer if the buying company would not continue to use the warehouse taking the product out and moving it to their existing locations.

International firms can also keep the clustering concept in mind when choosing the location of its global branches. Participating in already established local clusters should be an option in the minds of managers. Furthermore, firms should implement the geographical clustering of their supply chain wherever they can, even if it is only at a couple of levels.

If the American market is still a priority, its growth expectations are not very high in the long term (as well as in the western countries) and YOLA has to find other opportunities.

A company’s decision in the selection of the right location, is a key ingredient in a business's success. If a company selects the wrong location, it may have inadequate access to customers, workers, transportation, materials, and so on. Therefore, location often plays a huge role in a company's bottom line and ultimately its success. Location strategy is a critical factor in the success or failure of a company. A good plan for acquiring the optimal location by identifying needs and objectives, searching for, and acquiring the best suitable location is a successful location strategy. Usually, a firm will set its goals on maximizing opportunity while minimizing its costs and risks. (Heil, K., 2006)

There are many reasons for this; nonetheless their Cross-Border E-commerce is expected to grow at 50% annually. The thought of sky is the limit has been changed to limitless potential.

Next, a new business will have to worry about where they will obtain their inventory from. Typically existing competitors have already locked down the best geographical locations, which put new companies at a disadvantage.

Due to the fact that the industry is growing, other countries are now being emerged

In modern world a lot of companies will start their business in other countries, to become an international enterprise with economic development and global popularity (TAST, 2014). International companies to carry out their business around the world, multinational corporations are an important driving force of internationalization and globalization, so that business will not be limited to one country, and increase the company 's sales, also conducive to global companies seeking cheaper labour on a global scale, they can find cheaper recourse, reducing the company 's production cost (TAST, 2014). At this time, the location decision is particularly important when the company open a new company in the overseas, the company has a lot of issues

There is a market that is largely untapped by US suppliers. The 2016 US export sales percent for the area is zero percent. ( per "Foreign Trade - MAIN Page." Official Source US Export and Import Statistics - Foreign Trade - US Census Bureau. US Census Bureau, 30 Apr. 2009. Web. 12 July 2017.).

The physical facility in terms of building is an important aspect in consideration of the location of a hospital. Depending on the kind of services the hospital wants to provide the building facilities must be conducive enough to accommodate the equipment to be used in the providing of those services. This will greatly impact the quality of services provided by the hospital that will help in the acquiring of larger market share and optimize profits.

Meanwhile, Li & Fung in the European and U.S. markets high and mid market has maintained a policy. However, compared to Europe and the U.S. due to low levels of GDP should expand into low-cost market.

Look towards frontiers out of India- Ashok Leyland recently said quite emphatically- “Leaving aside the large demand markets, which also have large manufacturers to support themselves, there are still 45% of developed markets left for our company to explore. This is especially when there is an estimated