Planning processes

GIS technology allows businesses to quickly display, analyze, and determine vulnerabilities, exposures, and weaknesses. Developing mitigation strategies, modeling against potential events, and analyzing consequences can be done quickly and efficiently.
GIS enables a business to mitigate risks that disruptions pose in areas such as health and safety liability, loss of productivity from downtime, loss of work to competitors, failures within the supply chain, penalties from regulators, and higher insurance rates.

GIS is an ideal framework for understanding the relationships among the many location-dependent factors governing the success of a business, from demographics to travel-times. These data can be applied to many aspects of the business enterprise to ensure optimal siting of outlets, headquarters, warehouses, or sales reps with respect to customers, workers, suppliers, and transportation facilities.