Penske Corporation Case Study

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS INNOVATION AND

TECHNOPRENEURSHIP

UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS (UniMAP)

Semester and Academic Session

2013/2014

BFT 325 Logistics Management

Penske Corporation

Group member’s name Matrix Number

CHOONG CHIN FEI 111242044

GROUP: 22 A

TITLE: Penske Corporation

LECTURER”S NAME: Mr. Hussen Bin Nasir

SUBMISSION DATE: 23 May 2014

For this topic, we have some important point need to mention about. Firstly, we would like to discuss how the Penske Corporation locate their facility. Secondly, is about the factors influencing the facility location. Thirdly, we would like to talk about how the Penske design the warehouse to their customers. Fourthly, is the way to find out the lowest-cost location. Lastly, we also will discuss about the important of facility relocation and facility closing.

Facility location

For our point of view, facility location means the corporation chooses the best location to locate or build their facility to serve their customers. Before chooses the best location, the corporation needs to do a lot of analysis and screening the external environment before build their facility over there. As we know that Penske Corporation established at 1969 and headquarters in Bloomfield, Michigan, US and this places is classify as a big city and many big industry developed over there. The top management of Penske Logistics planed wisely before build the facility in that area. Consequently, many of the customers come and request the corporation to transport the...

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...ow Do I turn "Better" Into "Best"? (2014, January 14). Retrieved April 9, 2014, from Penske: http://www.penskelogistics.com/solutions/warehouse-management.html

How is Warehousing Utilization Impacting Your Business? (2014, January 14). Retrieved April 9, 2014, from Penske : http://www.penskelogistics.com/solutions/warehouse-operations.html

Looking for Global Reach, Local Know-How? (2014, January 14). Retrieved April 9, 2014, from Penske: http://www.penskelogistics.com/solutions/warehouse-design.html

Penske Corporation. (2014, January 25). Retrieved April 9, 2014, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penske_Corporation

Choong Chin Fei

• Facility location

• Design a warehouse

• Facility relocation and facility closing

• Reference

Ifti

• factors influencing the facility location.

• way to find out the lowest-cost location

• map n table is Ifti’s finding