Project: Understanding Process Selection and Facility Layout (Chapter 6) & JIT Chapter 15.

Select a business or any store (Walmart, Winners, Real Canadian Superstore, Loblaw, Fresh co, No frills, Home Depot, Home Sense, Canadian tire, Sobeys, Staples, Metro, Sears, Future shop, Costco, Farm boy, Independent, Foodland, Shoppers Drug Mart, Home outfitter, JYSK, Target, ) .

So Walmart is a store that I selected. Can you help me to answer those questions? Thank you.

1.Do they consistently hit the bulls eye with consumers by offering theirs chic yet cheap merchandise in reliable, easy-to-navigate stores? How?

2.Refer to the 7 wastes in JIT, check if their process has any kind of waste(s), and describe how they can eliminate them.

3. Identify areas of the store that have the characteristics of each of these processing types: job shop, batch, repetitive (assembly line), and continuous (Flow line).