Assignment Tasks Task 1: Case Study (Ex 4 and 5) EX 4: Warehouse Layout and Design (90 Marks) In this exercise, we will be looking at the design and layout of a warehouse in more detail. The exercise will look at the company Compu, a medium-sized company that manufactures computer components, such as monitors, keyboards, HD recorders, processors, and computers, etc. MEC AMO TEM 035_02 Page 1 of 18 Principles of Logistics BUSS-B-2001-Spring-2022-CW 3 (Assignment)-QP They make different versions of most of their products, so that each product comes in a B1, B2, and B3 version. This same applies for the other products. Just like many other small and medium- sized companies, the warehouse manager decides where the articles have to be stored. There is not a fixed procedure or system for this. This means that order pickers often have trouble finding a product and have to go and find the warehouse manager to ask him where it is. Sometimes the same products are put in different places around the warehouse. Consequently, when one pallet is empty, the order picker has to go to the other side of the warehouse to complete the order. Up until now, this situation has never caused any major problems. The warehouse manager has everything under control and there are hardly ever any errors in the deliveries. Nonetheless, the logistics manager is very concerned that this system will eventually cause big problems in the future. He is concerned for two reasons. First of all, the warehouse manager is over the age of 60. It won't be long before he will retire. The warehouse manager is often the only one who knows exactly what, how much, and where everything is in warehouse. When he retires, all that knowledge will be lost. The warehouse manager was not at work last week because he was ill, and the warehouse workers had to call him up several times a day. The second reason is the growing demand for the products of Compu. The logistics manager is afraid that if the company continues to grow, then it will be impossible for just one man to keep track of all the stock information. The logistics manager and the managing director expect to see a sharp rise in sales as early as this summer. In order to prepare for these eventualities, the logistics manager starts to work out a solution in June. She wants to organise the warehouse in a different way so the order pickers don't get in each other's way, and above all to make sure they have to travel the shortest possible distance. She can use the following data for this. There are three types of monitors: B1, B2 and B3. B1 costs 185, B2 costs 300, and B3 costs 250. The sales figures for these flatscreen monitors are as follows. BI: 19235, B2: 10728, and B3: 4344. The keyboards are manufactured in two types (one wired and one wireless): T1 and T2. The TI costs 49 and the T2 costs 149. The sales figures for the keyboards are as follows. TI: 35781, T2: 14567. The HD DVD players are available in three types. The Di costs 195 and 5910 have been sold, the D2 costs 295 and 1415 have been sold. The D3 is almost the same as the D2, but with the D3 you can burn your own DVDs as well. The D3 costs 999 and 233 have been sold. Compu makes two types of high-speed processors. The Pl costs 499 and the P2 costs 999. The annual sales figures for these products, which are rather low, are as follows. Pl: 988, and P2: 451 The computers come in five models. The CI is a very basic model and you can only connect one type of monitor to it (the B1), and the CI therefore only costs 385. It has been a flop and only 6156 have been sold.