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    Running a Good Business - Book 7: Designing Your Space: Running a Good Business, #7
    Running a Good Business - Book 7: Designing Your Space: Running a Good Business, #7
    Running a Good Business - Book 7: Designing Your Space: Running a Good Business, #7
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    Running a Good Business - Book 7: Designing Your Space: Running a Good Business, #7

    By Claude Whitmyer

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    Step-by-step guidance for launching your own small, micro or one-person business. For those who want to do what they love and still pay the bills. This volume is all about facility and space layout for retail stores, distribution warehouses (wholesalers) and manufacturing setups.

    Resource section contains long list of books about specific business types and books focused on layout and facility design.

    Table of Contents

    Designing Your Space

    Chapter 1: Facility Layout Design - 4 Elements and 7 Factors

    Chapter 2. Retail Layout
    - Product Merchandising
    - Customer Access
    - View of the Store
    - Information and Customer Service
    - In-Store Traffic Patterns
    * Rectangular Floor Plan
    * Diagonal Floor Plan
    * Cluster Floor Plan
    * Geometric Floor Plan
    * Mixed Floor Plan

    Chapter 3: Wholesaler Layout

    Chapter 4: Manufacturing Layout
    - Process versus Product Layout
    * Product Layout
    * Process Layout

    Resources
    - Design
    * Retail Design
    * Wholesale and Manufacturing Facilities Design
    - Books that Might Contain Facility Design Advice
    * Retail
    * Wholesale
    * Manufacturing

    About the Author

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClaude Whitmyer
    Release dateJul 28, 2011
    ISBN9781452456423
    Running a Good Business - Book 7: Designing Your Space: Running a Good Business, #7
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    Claude Whitmyer

    Claude Whitmyer is the co-author of Running A One-Person Business, and editor of two anthologies, Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood and In The Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World. As a business consultant with more than 30 years of experience, he has provided resources, training, and guidance to many hundreds of individuals seeking creative and meaningful work in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. He has also worked with managers in such corporations as the American Hospital Association, Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu America, NASA, Pacific Bell, and Southland Corporation.

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      Running a Good Business - Book 7 - Claude Whitmyer

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      Running a Good Business

      Book 7: Designing Your Space.

      By Claude Whitmyer and Gail Terry Grimes

      Published by FutureU Press, a division of The University of the Future, LLC

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2011 by Claude Whitmyer and Gail Terry Grimes. All rights reserved.

      License Notes: This ebook is licensed for your personal use only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      This ebook is not meant to be a substitute for legal or professional advice. It is the reader's responsibility to verify that the facts and general advice in this ebook apply.

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      Table of Contents

      Designing Your Space

      Chapter 1: Facility Layout Design - 4 Elements and 7 Factors

      Chapter 2. Retail Layout

      - Product Merchandising

      - In Store Traffic Patterns

      Chapter 3: Wholesaler Layout

      Chapter 4: Manufacturing Layout

      Resources

      - Design

      - Books About Specific Business Types

      About the Author

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      Designing Your Space

      The smarter you are about the layout of your physical premises the more reductions in cost that you can create. Careful and clever design can also increase income. We discuss the details of setting up your small or home office in Book 5: Setting Up Shop and Book 6: Choosing Technology, but we want to point out some of the guiding principles of designing your space for retail, wholesale, and manufacturing enterprises here.

      Facility layout and design is an important component of a business's overall operations, both in terms of maximizing merchandising, customer service, or production processes and meeting employee needs and desires. A typical definition of facility layout says something like the physical arrangement of machines, personnel, raw materials, and finished goods needed for storage, production or assembly and shipping and receiving a businesses products or services. Such definitions are heavily weighted toward distribution and manufacturing facilities and retail

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