ABSTRACT
Taka Bolt is looking for a new warehouse to consolidate all sorting and packaging operations within the warehouse and to improve warehouse material •ow. They identi‚ed four warehouse sites-FedCo Properties, Center Drive, Wheeling Park, and Deer‚eld Business Center-and used Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) to evaluate them. FedCo Properties ranked ‚rst with a utility score of 0.60, followed by Center Drive (0.576), Prospect Park (0.42), and Northbrook Business Center (0.38). FedCo Properties is very strong on a number of truck docks measures, but extremely weak on lease and maintenance cost. Center Drive is strong on lease and maintenance cost, of‚ce, and lab space measures, but signi‚cantly weak on one highly weighted measure: number of truck docks. What alternative should Taka Bolt select? Is it possible to improve the FedCo Properties’ alternative in terms of cost or the Center Drive alternative in terms of the number of truck docks?
