The Able Company has a warehouse with 6 storage bays, each with 12,000 cu. ft. storage...

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The Able Company has a warehouse with 6 storage bays, each with 12,000 cu. ft. storage space available. The bays are numbered in increasing order of distance to outbound dock. The warehouse processes 4 products: Product 1 2 3 4 Cu.ft. per unit 1.2 2 3 2.5 #orders per day COI=cub.ft/unit * Avg. inv., units /# orders per day COI (Product1)=1.2*10000/100 COI (Product2) = 2*5000/60 COI (Product3) = 3*12000/80 COI (Product4) = 2.5*2000/60 100 60 80 60 Avg. inv., units a) Calculate COI for each product and rank product based on COI. (3 points) 10,000 5,000 12,000 2,000 b) Determine the product layout (allocate space required for each product to the space available in the bays) based on the COI ranking obtained in a). (4 points) c) Which other constraints could be included into the product layout problem to make it more realistic? Name at least 3. (3 points) The Able Company has a warehouse with 6 storage bays, each with 12,000 cu. ft. storage space available. The bays are numbered in increasing order of distance to outbound dock. The warehouse processes 4 products: Product 1 2 3 4 Cu.ft. per unit 1.2 2 3 2.5 #orders per day COI=cub.ft/unit * Avg. inv., units /# orders per day COI (Product1)=1.2*10000/100 COI (Product2) = 2*5000/60 COI (Product3) = 3*12000/80 COI (Product4) = 2.5*2000/60 100 60 80 60 Avg. inv., units a) Calculate COI for each product and rank product based on COI. (3 points) 10,000 5,000 12,000 2,000 b) Determine the product layout (allocate space required for each product to the space available in the bays) based on the COI ranking obtained in a). (4 points) c) Which other constraints could be included into the product layout problem to make it more realistic? Name at least 3. (3 points)

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