The decision process is on of the most frequent actitivites that we can be found in the companies. Some of this decisions are very important, other, not so much. The determination of the localization of a firm is one of the decisions that has the biggest impact in the results. Althought all this arguments, the responsible people for this decisons in the companies do not use a cientifical method when deciding where to install theirs units. In this way, the aim of this article is presenting some of the problems faced and the methods avaliable nowadays that can be used in this critical moments in the companies.
Decision methods; companies localization; logistics; supply chain; clusters
