According to Heizer and Render, a good retail layout or design

	a.	Seeks the best personnel and machine utilization in repetitive or continuous production.
	b.	Deals with low-volume, high-variety production.
	c.	Addresses the layout requirements of large, bulky projects such as ships and buildings.
	d.	Groups workers, their equipment, and spaces/offices to provide for efficient movement of information.
	e.	Focuses on maximizing product exposure to customers

A factory manager of a Work Cell is seeking to reduce employee movement and space requirements while

enhancing communication, reducing the number of workers, and facilitating inspection. The manager can

achieve that by setting a new layout of the workstation in form of a:

	a.	Straight line layout
	b.	L shape layout
	c.	U shape layout
	d.	Layout not mentioned here, since these will not make any difference

In a Process-oriented layout work centers are arranged to minimize the costs of material handling.

The basic cost elements for optimizing material handling costs are:

	a.	material costs and labor costs
	b.	number of loads and distance the loads move between the work centers
	c.	setup time and run time at the work centers
	d.	number of shifts and number of working days during the week