Running a Good Business - Book 7: Designing Your Space

by Claude Whitmyer

Overview

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

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011434976
Publisher:	Claude Whitmyer
Publication date:	07/28/2011
Series:	Running a Good Business , #7
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	311 KB

About the Author

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.