Planning distribution centers with GIS Maps of the Philippines

MAKATI CITY, Philippines - May 26, 2015 - PRLog -- For many businesses, planning the location of a new distribution center is an essential task. A wide variety of factors must be taken into account for the planning phase.

These include:

• Operations costs
• Potential site selection
• Site acquisition costs/fit out costs
• Security
• Availability of utilities

Customer Profile Analysis and Buffering

Although Business Mapper can’t help with all of these individual factors, there is one key factor Business Mapper can help with, potential site location.

The main method of doing this is through Customer profile analysis and buffering.

You can utilize customer profiling in order to understand where your customer are, and how they are clustered. This way, the entire business landscape can essentially be visualized.

One method of planning where to put distribution centers with Business Mapper, is to create customizable buffers that covers a certain area radius or location.

You can create colour coded buffers to plot new proposed sites effectively, as well as having the ability to plot existing distribution sites on the map, and analyze the data for it.

You can use the information and data you gather to create a customer analysis results table. This means that you can:

• Create a results chart after carrying out your analysis.
• Clearly see the percentage of customers your distribution centers cover within a certain radius/area.
• Clearly see the percentage of customers your new proposed distribution centers would cover.
• Clearly see the number of new customers the proposed distribution centers would cover.
• Check fuel and time saving.