A Business Case Tool as Decision Support in Early Production Location Project Stages

Christina Windmark; Carin Andersson

A Business Case Tool as Decision Support in Early Production Location Project Stages

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Abstract

Globalisation makes companies enter the global market both in sale and production. Previous studies have shown that one of the main reasons for relocation and outsourcing is cost saving. There are also studies showing that companies today may benefit from a decision support model based on costs. This paper provides a business case tool to be used in the scoping phase where different location alternatives are to be roughly analysed for further investigation. The tool is to be used together with strategic analyses and more extensive risk analyses to make a solid information platform for decisions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th Swedish Production Symposium
Editors	Johan Stahre, Björn Johansson, Mats Björkman
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	Swedish Production Symposium, 2014 - Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 2014 Sep 16 → 2014 Sep 18 Conference number: 6

Conference

Conference	Swedish Production Symposium, 2014
Abbreviated title	SPS
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Gothenburg
Period	2014/09/16 → 2014/09/18

Subject classification (UKÄ)

Materials Engineering

Keywords

Location decision
business case
decision support
cost conscious analyses.

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http://conferences.chalmers.se/index.php/SPS/SPS14/paper/viewFile/1691/364

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A Business Case Tool as Decision Support in Early Production Location Project Stages

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