Parkins Electronics: A Comprehensive Report on Relocation Sites

This report assesses four potential relocation sites for Parkins Electronics: Punchbowl, Randwick, Fairfield, and Pannant Hills. The evaluation considers various attributes, including the cost of lease, location, proximity to work via public and private transport, availability of parking and future expansion space. Each site's performance is rated based on these attributes, with weighted values assigned according to the owner's priorities. The analysis leads to a recommendation based on the site that best aligns with Parkins Electronics' needs and strategic goals. Desklib provides students access to similar solved assignments and study tools.

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The four alternative relocations positions include the following: Punchbowl, Randwick site,
Fairfield site and Pannant Hills. Each of the sites have clear variations from one another hence
their suitability are to be evaluated on such parameters. A suitable position for relocation of
Parkins Electronics can hence be recommended. The location of these considered alternatives
are different with notable states of the physical property.
An attribute refers to the way of measuring the performance of the different alternatives in
relations to the desired objectives which in this case is towards deciding on the suitable
alternative for the company relocation. The following attributes will be considered in
determining the suitable relocation site for the Parkins Electronics. They include:
I. State of the building
II. Cost of lease
III. Availability of parking facilities
IV. Availability of room for future expansion
V. Average travel time to work by car for managers and skilled workers
VI. Average travel time by public transport for managers and skilled workers to get work
VII. Time taken from nearest bus terminus/ railway station to work
Location Lease Cost Benefits
Working condition
Proximity to Work Availability of specific future expansion
Car Parking
By Car By Public transport
Proximity from Bus Station Proximity from Rail Station
Performance of each of the sites on:
I. Cost of lease
There's a ton to consider when you're renting a business space out of the blue. The
procedure can be convoluted, and various components could affect your last
decision. Cost of lease is likely the most imperative factor to most organizations
when they're picking another office. In the event that you spend pretty much
nothing, you'll either wind up with an office you're not content with, or you may

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end up moving out following a couple of months. Spend excessively, and you
may battle to pay the lease or need to move again to scale back. Neither of those
situations are perfect. Here are a couple of critical things to ask while considering
the amount to spend on your next office space: Would i be able to stand to pay a
multi month lease store on this office at the present time? Have I gotten some
information about any shrouded costs? (Support, additional expense of stopping,
and so forth.) Is this office estimated in accordance with comparative office
spaces in the territory? Question one gives you an exceptionally expansive sign of
moderateness and getting some information about shrouded costs causes you
secure yourself against being stung with charges you didn't anticipate. The third
inquiry is basically to ensure you're getting the most ideal arrangement.
Continuously complete a speedy correlation with different workplaces spaces in
the region to ensure you're getting an incentive for cash. The lease costs for the 4
alternatives are as follows in table 1. The constraint is marked at $1,000,000.
sites Cost in $
1. Punchbowl 500,000
2. Fairfield 700,000
3. Randwick 900,000
4. Pennant Hills 1,000,000
Table 1.
Value scale based on costs of lease is as shown in figure 1.
Value
100
70
35
0
Fairfield
Randwick
Punchbowl
Pannant Hills
Figure 1

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II. Location
Regardless of the nature of your business, before you start shopping for space, you need to have
a clear picture of what you must have, what you'd like to have, what you absolutely won't
tolerate and how much you're able to pay. Developing that picture can be a time-consuming
process that is both exciting and tedious, but it's essential that you give it the attention it
deserves. While many start-up mistakes can be corrected later on, a poor choice of location is
difficult-and sometimes impossible-to repair. In this case of a manufacturing company, you'll
require a plant or distribution center office. Light industrial parks commonly pull in littler
producers in nonpolluting ventures and also organizations that need showrooms notwithstanding
fabricating offices. Substantial modern zones have a tendency to be more established and ill-
conceived and typically offer rail and additionally water port access. In spite of the fact that
modern parks are by and large more up to date and frequently have better foundations, one may
likewise need to consider any free-standing commercial space that addresses applicable issues
and is satisfactorily zoned.
Punchbowl is located close to the railway station. This means that it is easily accessible by
clients and convenient for transportation of manufactured product to the market or retail joints
close to the rail network. Rail transportation is known of fixed time schedules hence reliable and
faster. However, rail may be inaccessible to some markets due to the flexibility of the rail
system, that is, fixed route design.
Randwick site is located on redeveloped commonwealth land. In such location, good network of
roads and adequate security could be guaranteed. But, such localities could be separated from
human population with restricted access hence may be unsuitable and unreliable.
Fairfield on generous land available. This indicates sparse population around such an area hence
proximity to the market or to supplies is potentially vast. In such locality, security may be an
issue. Availability of generous lands offers suitable environment for industrial use.
Pannant Hills is placed in park-like surrounds. This defines the area as suitable recreational spot
hence would be preferable for leisure activities. Such environment could have an effect on staff
morale. Also, locating a company in such a place would be subject to a lot of strict
environmental regulation to ensure human safety hence need for additional costs such as waste
treatment and disposal costs.
Based on the above analyses, the value scale based on site location will be as in figure 2.

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Value
100
75
40
0
III. Proximity to work by public transport
Accessibility of the site by public transport is essential in that when such means
become appealing or at least the only available means of getting to work, managers
and/ or skilled workers should be able to get to work on time and get home in good
time. When you consider Punchbowl, manages takes 90 minutes to get to work while
skilled worker takes 30 minutes. For Randwick, manger takes 90 minutes to work
while skilled worker takes 60 minutes. At Fairfield, manager takes 90 minutes to
work while skilled worker takes 25 minutes. Lastly, at Pannant Hills, the manger will
take at least 40 minutes, skilled worker as 40 minutes. The most suitable site would
be one in which the manager and/ or skilled worker takes as minimum time as
possible such that when they get at work they are not fatigued of long journey. Based
on such observation, and considering that most managers would prefer travel by
personal cars, the order of suitability of the sites based on proximity to public
transport will be as follows:
1. Fairfield
2. Punchbowl
3. Pannant Hills
4. Randwick
The value scale will be as follows in figure 3.
Fairfield
Pannant Hills
Punchbowl
Randwick
Figure 2

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Value
100
85
35
0
IV. Proximity from bus stop
Punchbowl and Randwick are 5 minutes from bus stop compared to Pannant Hills and
Fairfield which are 10 minutes from the bus stop. This presents Punchbowl and
Randwick the favorites based on proximity to the bus stop. The value scale will be as
follows in figure 4.
Punchbowl
Pannant Hills
Fairfield
Randwick
Figure 3

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Value
100
0
V. Proximity from rail station
Punchbowl is 1 m from the rail compared to Randwick at 15 minutes, Fairfield at
5 minutes and Pannant Hills at 10 minutes from the railway. Punchbowl would
therefore be most favorite, then Fairfield, Pannant Hills and the least being
Randwick. The value scale based on proximity from rail station will therefore be
as in figure 5.
Value
100
80
40
0
VI. Proximity to work by car
Based on average time travel by car to the 4 sites is as in table 2.
site Travel time by car- Travel time by car-
Fairfield
Pannant Hills
Punchbowl
Randwick
Figure 5
Pannant Hills and Fairfield
Punchbowl and Randwick
Figure 4

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manager (minutes) skilled worker (minutes)
Punchbowl 75 40
Randwick 45 50
Fairfield 60 20
Pannant Hills 20 50
Table 2. Average travel by car to different sites.
From the time, it can be observed that the most preferred would be Pannant Hills,
then Randwick, Fairfield and lastly Punchbowl respectively. The general
assumption is that skilled workers would adopt alternative transport means as
many may not afford car travel. Therefore, the main determinant will be the site
which takes the manager least possible time to arrive at the office. The value scale
is as in figure 6.
Value
100
70
45
0
VII. Availability of space for future expansion
Punchbowl has adequate spaces at the present size of the company but no room
for future expansion. Randwick on the hand can accommodate future expansion in
the next two years and not further than that. Fairfield has no possible expansion
space hence is fixed. Pannant Hills has room for future expansion over undefined
Randwick
Fair field
Pannant Hills
Punchbowl
Figure 6

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period of time. For a company seeking to expand, Pannant Hills would be most
suitable, followed by Randwick then Punchbowl and lastly Fairfield respectively.
The value scale would be depicted as follow in figure 7.
Value
100
55
10
0
VIII. Availability of parking facilities
Based on this aspect, it is important to have adequate parking for the managers,
staff as well as company vehicles for distribution as well as considerable spaces
for the clients. A most preferable site should therefore offer adequate spacing.
Punchbowl offers only 10 parking spaces, Randwick with 50 parking spaces,
Fairfield at 100 parking spaces as well as Pannant Hills having 100 parking
spaces. Based on the Parkin staff of 20 managers and 50 skilled workers, it safe to
assume that at least half of the number would need a parking space. Assuming
client base of 30 per day and company vehicles up to 15, on average, 85 parking
space onwards would be preferable. Hence, Pannant Hills and Fairfield will be
better placed and most preferred. The ranking would be Pannant hills being the
favorite due availability of expansion space hence would accommodate any
increase in demand of parking facilities. Second preference would be Fairfield,
then Randwick and finally Punchbowl being the least of all. The value scale
would be as follows in figure 8.
Randwick
Punhbowl
Pannant Hills
Fair field
Figure 7

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Value
100
85
50
0
In accordance with the considered factors, assume owners rankings of the
individual attributes to be as follows:
1. Location
2. Availability of space for future expansion
3. Cost of lease
4. Availability of parking facilities
5. Proximity to work by car
6. Proximity to work by public transport
7. Proximity from rail station
8. Proximity from bus stop
We can now give location a weight of 100, normalized weights will be calculated as follows:
Fairfield
Randwick
Pannant Hills
Punchbowl
Figure 8

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attribute Original weights Normalized weights to the
nearest whole number
1. Location 100 25
2. Availability of space
for future expansion
85 21
3. Cost of lease 70 17
4. Availability of
parking facilities
60 15
5. Proximity to work by
car
35 9
6. Proximity to work by
public transport
25 6
7. Proximity from rail
station
15 4
8. Proximity from bus
stop
10 3
400 100
The weights for the higher level attributes in the value tree “turnover” and “working conditions”
can be found by summing the appropriate lower level heights such that the weight turnover will
be 25+21+17+15=78. The weight of working conditions will be 9+6+4+3=22

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