below? Scenario: A large, high volume warehouse-style discount grocery & retail operation
below? Scenario: A large, high volume warehouse-style discount grocery & retail operation
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A. 1.6 pallets per hour
B. 10 pallets per hour
C. 6 pallets per hour
D. 2 pallets per hour
E. Impossible to determine

Transcribed Image Text:Is the capacity or the system in the scenario below?
Scenario:
A large, high volume warehouse-style discount grocery & retail operation receives pallets of wholesale goods to stock their shelves. Each day the
Shipping/Receiving (S/R) manager verifies & logs receipt of pallets which takes about 30 minutes (0.5 hours per pallet, hpp). The S/R manager then
sends the received pallets to the staging area for pricing. It takes just about 75 minutes (1.25 hours) to price a pallet of goods; consequently, there are
two "pricers". The priced items are then place on the shelves throughout the warehouse by nine "stockers" at an average rate of about a pallet every
90 minutes (1.5 hours) per stocker. At the same time the stockers are placing items on shelves, an employee called a "shelf-spotter" rotates stock
forward in the shelving to make room for the stockers which takes about 12 minutes (0.20 hours) per pallet-quantity of items. At the end of each day
an analyst performs an operation called "cycle-counting" to reconcile the quantity of shelved goods with a computer report. The analyst cycle-counts
for 15 minutes (0.25 hours) for each pallet-count of goods shelved.
Stocking
9 persons
1.5 hpp
S/R
1 person
0.5 hrs/pallet
מh)
Pricing
2 persons
1.25 hpp
Сycle
Count
1 person
0.25 hpp
Spotting
1 persons
0.2 hpp
O 16 pallets per hour
O 10 pallets per hour
O 6 pallets per hour
O2 palets per huur
O limpossiblc to deterinine
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