In most instances, it is not easy to change the location of the operations base once it has been firmly established. For service organisations, location decisions are as important if not moreimportant as that for the manufacturing organisations. There are substantial costs involved in the location decisions and thus organisations need to be extremely cautious when considering suchdecisions. A private hospital wants to relocate due to their existing capacity constraints.

Describe using worked examples the four (4) methods that could be used to evaluate location alternatives.