East Coast Manufacturing, Inc. plans to locate a new productionfacility in Hartford, Philadelphia, or Baltimore. Six locationfactors are important: cost per product unit, labor availability,union activities, local transportation, proximity to similarindustry and proximity to raw materials. The weighting of thesefactors, the scale for each factor and the scores for each locationare shown below. Different SME’s (subject matter experts) scoredeach of the non-economic factors. So, unfortunately, the scores forthe non-economic factors are scaled differently. The scales areindicated on the table. On the scale, the highest score is alwaysthe best value. For example, for the scale 1-5, the best value is5. For
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