a manufacturing company has organized its factory using a process layout. loads of material are moved between departments a, b, c, d, and e using forklift trucks

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a) calculate the total material handling cost per week for the current layout. a senior executive is suggesting the following layout in order to reduce total material handling cost ( view attachment for remainder of question)

b) calculate total material handling cost per week for the new layout

c) should the company adopt the suggested layout

A manufacturing company has organizer of material are moved between demostroents A, B, C, D, and & using forklift trucks The arrangement of the five departments in their long, narrow factory is shown below. E The cost of mouing a lood estimated to be $ 0.40 per metre. The distance from any 10 metres. For example, the distance from c to Eis 30 metres. The number of loods mard between pairs of departments per week is given in the folloying table C E 30 150 180 B 240 90 3.0 Arrower these Questions: D E A) Calculate the total material handling cost per week for the corrent layout, A senior executive suogesting the following layout in order to reduce total material handling costs A C E B B) Calculate the total material handling cost per week for the case new layout! 134728 Could the company odopt the singested layout