QUESTION $1$

$1\mathrm{.}1$ Discuss how Takealot uses drop shipping to facilitate flow of its merchandise.

$1\mathrm{.}2$ A company has to produce two models $($Model A and Model B$)$ of one product on a

mixed$-$model assembly line. The precedence relationships of the assembly

activities, and the activity durations are shown below. The output requirements per

week are: $60$ units for Model A and $40$ units for Model B$.$

Model A comprises of activities A$,$ C$,$ D$,$ F$,$ G$,$ H$,$ I and J

Model B comprises of activities A$,$ B$,$ C$,$ E$,$ F$,$ I and J

$1\mathrm{.}2\mathrm{.}1$ Complete the table below.

$1\mathrm{.}2\mathrm{.}2$ Design an assembly line with the minimum number of workstations and

allocate work activities to stations according to their positional weights if the

avalable time per week is $40$ hours $($cycle time$).$ Show full calculations,

including the cumulative station times and the unassigned station time.

$1\mathrm{.}2\mathrm{.}3$ Calculate the balancing loss based on theoretical minimum number of

workstations.