{"id":337,"date":"2011-06-08T17:25:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2022-03-24T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:55:13","slug":"centre-of-gravity-model-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/centre-of-gravity-model-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre of gravity for warehouse location &#8211; try the working model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just posted up a development version of a centre of gravity model for distribution centre location. It uses Google Maps, and it is really easy to use, and completely free. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yui2\/centre-of-gravity.htm\">Try it here now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I regard it as a &#8220;toy&#8221; application, but I&#8217;m surprised how usable it is (down to the familiar Google interface I think rather than my design skills). And it really does work.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to use it to demonstrate the principle of COG in logistics networks, as a teaching and communication aid rather than a serious analysis tool. But maybe the next time the team is debating where to go for a night out we can plot all our home locations and see where the most convenient spot is.<\/p>\n<p>It is an early release so quite buggy and breakable, and all feedback is welcome &#8211; just drop me a comment.<\/p>\n<p>That link again: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yui2\/centre-of-gravity.htm\">Centre of Gravity Model<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just posted up a development version of a centre of gravity model for distribution centre location. It uses Google Maps, and it is really easy to use, and completely free. Try it here now. I regard it as a &#8220;toy&#8221; application, but I&#8217;m surprised how usable it is (down to the familiar Google interface [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,6],"tags":[112,22,66,8,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supplychainview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}