Sample Models
Site selection
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Model 1.1: ANP BOCR - Choosing Country for SAP Development Factory for Monsanto Brazil
Choose the location to set up an ABAP (SAP programming) Development Factory to support Brazil SAP Consolidation Project.
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Model 1.2: ANP BOCR - Choose Disney location in Asia
Assuming that Disney wants to expand its presence in foreign markets, especially Greater China and the alternatives for a new theme park
are Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taiwan, which would the optimum location be?
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Model 1.3: ANP BOCR - Choose best country to locate furniture factory
Cimal/IMR is located in Bolivia since 1960, producing furniture. The company would like to analyze the best option to locate its factory in order to achieve better-cost efficiency, lower risks, long-term sustainability and better customer satisfaction.
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Model 1.4: ANP BOCR - Relocation of Corporate Headquaters
Lonavala Construction Company (LCC) started as a stone quarry in the small sleepy town of Lonavala between
the twin cities of Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra. Lonavala although a very lively city and in very close proximity to the twin cities of Mumbai and Pune,
lacks the appropriate infrastructure required to sustain a growing organization. Lonavala is ...
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Model 1.5: ANP BOCR - Nokia's Headquarters in Latin America
In order to be closer to the appropriate operating area, Nokia decided
to move its Latin American Headquarters from Dallas, TX to the Latin American geographical region.
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Model 1.6: ANP BOCR - Location of Ford's Mainframe Computer System
In 1997, as part of a corporate decision to consolidate its data center,
Ford moved its South America mainframe (located in Brazil) to the Ford US Data Center located in Detroit, MI.
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Model 1.7: ANP BOCR - Casual Corner's Store Location
In one area of the country, a Casual Corner location faces an uncertain future. Although there are two Petites
Sophisticate stores approximately 20 miles away, customers of the Casual Corner store continuously
request products from the Petites Sophisticate line. Ownership is unsure of how it should address the shift in product preference.
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Model 1.8: ANP BOCR - Selecting a Country to Enter the Asian Market
This model attempts to provide a template for companies that are searching for the best access point to the Asian market.
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Model 1.9: ANP BOCR - Location of the ABAP Development Factory
In an effort to support its Brazil SAP Consolidation Project, the Monsanto Company needs to construct an ABAP development factory.
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Model 1.10: ANP BOCR - Outsourcing Country Selection at ABC Electronics
At present ABC works with several Asian suppliers but not all of these business relationships are perfectly established. ABC wants to
determine the best country for outsourcing in order to consolidate its suppliers and manufacturing in one location.
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Model 1.11: ANP BOCR - Outsourcing Ford Brazil's Operations to China
The firm needed some way to optimize its production cost structure. The development of China as an outsourcing
location seemed to be more and more of a viable solution.
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Model 1.12: ANP BOCR - Car Wash Location in Brazil
One man in Brazil decided to try his luck in opening a small car wash service. He was unsure of the market conditions due to
limited information availability and did not know where to locate his business.
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Model 1.13: ANP BOCR - India vs. China as an Offshoring Location (2006)
This model aims at analyzing the growth prospects for four different alternatives in India and China in the next 5 years by
taking both qualitative and quantitative data into account.
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Model 1.14: ANP BOCR - Cimal/IMR's New Factory Location
Cimal/IMR is part of the RODA Group, a furniture company located in Bolivia since 1960.
The instability and constant roadblocks have forced the company to look for alternatives.
It must analyze the best area to locate its new assembly plant in order to achieve
better-cost efficiency, lower risks, long-term sustainability and better customer satisfaction.
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Model 1.15: ANP BOCR - New Plant Location for European Manufacturer
To support the growth, significant investments in acquisitions and new manufacturing facilities are planned over the next several years.
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Model 1.16: ANP BOCR - The Location of the New Stadium (2002)
After the success of Camden Yard, Baltimore’s Ballpark, inner city stadium becomes a trend. City planners and baseball teams enthusiastically advocated building a smaller scale baseball stadium in center city. Philadelphia’s baseball team, The Phillies, had been sharing the stadium with the football team, the Eagles for years. Now, the trend gave the Phillies an opportunity to ask for support from the government to build a new ballpark. Location of the new stadium became a heated debate. Three sites were proposed and two of them were seriously considered.
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Model 1.17: ANP BOCR - Pittsburgh or Chicago for Kraft Heinz’s HQ (2020)
The goal of this BOCR model is to help determine if the Kraft Heinz Company, which is currently co-headquartered
in Pittsburgh, PA and Chicago, IL should close one location and move to having a single headquarter in either
location or maintain both corporate locations.
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Model 1.18: ANP BOCR - New optimal location to place American textile company’s Midwest operations (2016)
The goal is to find a new manufacturing and distribution center in the Midwest that meets all requirements of ATC.
The alternatives were decided upon after running a Center of Gravity model which analyzed the current customer list of ATC in an attempt
to minimize the distance from ATC to the customers.
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Model 1.19: ANP BOCR - Apple coming to Pittsburgh (2016)
Through the Complex Analytical Network Process, we hope to arrive at a conclusion for the Apple Pittsburgh’s site location.
In this type of analysis we use Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks for to evaluate each solution (or alternative).
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Model 1.20: ANP BOCR - New Corporate Office Location (2022)
This decision will be made by company senior leadership at the local site level, with supplied input from an outside consultant, employee focus groups, surveys, and top customers.
At the direction of the company Chief Executive Officer, we have set the strategic objective of being Net 0 by 2050 in alliance with the European Commission Plan.
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Model 1.21: ANP BOCR - International Manufacturing China vs India (2022)
BCI Engineering is primarily a contract manufacturer and supply chain management company. It was established in 2006 and has its headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA. BCI’s primary business is manufacturing steel components for solar racking systems.
Currently, the majority of the manufacturing of these components occurs in China. The delivery locations for the products have historically been primarily in the United States,
but BCI is now seeing increasing demand in India. As a result of the increasing demand in India, the high-level management at BCI is being faced with a decision: should they expand their contract manufacturing business into India to better serve
the increased demand in India or should they remain in China?
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Model 1.1: ANP BOCR - Choosing Country for SAP Development Factory for Monsanto Brazil
Choose the location to set up an ABAP (SAP programming) Development Factory to support Brazil SAP Consolidation Project.
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Model 1.2: ANP BOCR - Choose Disney location in Asia
Assuming that Disney wants to expand its presence in foreign markets, especially Greater China and the alternatives for a new theme park are Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taiwan, which would the optimum location be?
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Model 1.3: ANP BOCR - Choose best country to locate furniture factory
Cimal/IMR is located in Bolivia since 1960, producing furniture. The company would like to analyze the best option to locate its factory in order to achieve better-cost efficiency, lower risks, long-term sustainability and better customer satisfaction.
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Model 1.4: ANP BOCR - Relocation of Corporate Headquaters
Lonavala Construction Company (LCC) started as a stone quarry in the small sleepy town of Lonavala between the twin cities of Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra. Lonavala although a very lively city and in very close proximity to the twin cities of Mumbai and Pune, lacks the appropriate infrastructure required to sustain a growing organization. Lonavala is ...
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Model 1.5: ANP BOCR - Nokia's Headquarters in Latin America
In order to be closer to the appropriate operating area, Nokia decided to move its Latin American Headquarters from Dallas, TX to the Latin American geographical region.
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Model 1.6: ANP BOCR - Location of Ford's Mainframe Computer System
In 1997, as part of a corporate decision to consolidate its data center, Ford moved its South America mainframe (located in Brazil) to the Ford US Data Center located in Detroit, MI.
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Model 1.7: ANP BOCR - Casual Corner's Store Location
In one area of the country, a Casual Corner location faces an uncertain future. Although there are two Petites Sophisticate stores approximately 20 miles away, customers of the Casual Corner store continuously request products from the Petites Sophisticate line. Ownership is unsure of how it should address the shift in product preference.
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Model 1.8: ANP BOCR - Selecting a Country to Enter the Asian Market
This model attempts to provide a template for companies that are searching for the best access point to the Asian market.
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Model 1.9: ANP BOCR - Location of the ABAP Development Factory
In an effort to support its Brazil SAP Consolidation Project, the Monsanto Company needs to construct an ABAP development factory.
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Model 1.10: ANP BOCR - Outsourcing Country Selection at ABC Electronics
At present ABC works with several Asian suppliers but not all of these business relationships are perfectly established. ABC wants to determine the best country for outsourcing in order to consolidate its suppliers and manufacturing in one location.
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Model 1.11: ANP BOCR - Outsourcing Ford Brazil's Operations to China
The firm needed some way to optimize its production cost structure. The development of China as an outsourcing location seemed to be more and more of a viable solution.
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Model 1.12: ANP BOCR - Car Wash Location in Brazil
One man in Brazil decided to try his luck in opening a small car wash service. He was unsure of the market conditions due to limited information availability and did not know where to locate his business.
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Model 1.13: ANP BOCR - India vs. China as an Offshoring Location (2006)
This model aims at analyzing the growth prospects for four different alternatives in India and China in the next 5 years by taking both qualitative and quantitative data into account.
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Model 1.14: ANP BOCR - Cimal/IMR's New Factory Location
Cimal/IMR is part of the RODA Group, a furniture company located in Bolivia since 1960. The instability and constant roadblocks have forced the company to look for alternatives. It must analyze the best area to locate its new assembly plant in order to achieve better-cost efficiency, lower risks, long-term sustainability and better customer satisfaction.
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Model 1.15: ANP BOCR - New Plant Location for European Manufacturer
To support the growth, significant investments in acquisitions and new manufacturing facilities are planned over the next several years.
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Model 1.16: ANP BOCR - The Location of the New Stadium (2002)
After the success of Camden Yard, Baltimore’s Ballpark, inner city stadium becomes a trend. City planners and baseball teams enthusiastically advocated building a smaller scale baseball stadium in center city. Philadelphia’s baseball team, The Phillies, had been sharing the stadium with the football team, the Eagles for years. Now, the trend gave the Phillies an opportunity to ask for support from the government to build a new ballpark. Location of the new stadium became a heated debate. Three sites were proposed and two of them were seriously considered.
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Model 1.17: ANP BOCR - Pittsburgh or Chicago for Kraft Heinz’s HQ (2020)
The goal of this BOCR model is to help determine if the Kraft Heinz Company, which is currently co-headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA and Chicago, IL should close one location and move to having a single headquarter in either location or maintain both corporate locations.
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Model 1.18: ANP BOCR - New optimal location to place American textile company’s Midwest operations (2016)
The goal is to find a new manufacturing and distribution center in the Midwest that meets all requirements of ATC. The alternatives were decided upon after running a Center of Gravity model which analyzed the current customer list of ATC in an attempt to minimize the distance from ATC to the customers.
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Model 1.19: ANP BOCR - Apple coming to Pittsburgh (2016)
Through the Complex Analytical Network Process, we hope to arrive at a conclusion for the Apple Pittsburgh’s site location. In this type of analysis we use Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks for to evaluate each solution (or alternative).
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Model 1.20: ANP BOCR - New Corporate Office Location (2022)
This decision will be made by company senior leadership at the local site level, with supplied input from an outside consultant, employee focus groups, surveys, and top customers. At the direction of the company Chief Executive Officer, we have set the strategic objective of being Net 0 by 2050 in alliance with the European Commission Plan.
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Model 1.21: ANP BOCR - International Manufacturing China vs India (2022)
BCI Engineering is primarily a contract manufacturer and supply chain management company. It was established in 2006 and has its headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA. BCI’s primary business is manufacturing steel components for solar racking systems. Currently, the majority of the manufacturing of these components occurs in China. The delivery locations for the products have historically been primarily in the United States, but BCI is now seeing increasing demand in India. As a result of the increasing demand in India, the high-level management at BCI is being faced with a decision: should they expand their contract manufacturing business into India to better serve the increased demand in India or should they remain in China?