Canadian Distributing (CD) is a catalog retail store. Customers bring an order sheet to the sales counter and an agent passes it to a stock employee who retrieves the items from various areas in the warehouse. In an effort to speed service, they are considering changes to their warehouse layout to try and reduce the distance traveled by their stock employees. The warehouse has six main inventory areas that must be organized in a 2 x 3 layout as shown below. The average daily 2-way flow of stock employees between the inventory areas is shown in the following table. A B 79 A 48 45 MUA D 65 59 34 E 25 75 55 41 F 84 93 63 69 80 E F a) (4 marks) Starting with the current layout below, perform an operations sequence analysis to design a layout that minimizes the distance that stock employees must travel. The original layout has 554 units of non-adjacent travel, calculate and show the non-adjacent travel for the recommended layout. By how many units will your recommended layout increase total travel? AB C-D E- F b) (2 marks) If it takes 2 minutes to travel between adjacent inventory areas, what is the total daily travel time for stock employees given the current and the recommended layouts ? Canadian Distributing (CD) is a catalog retail store. Customers bring an order sheet to the sales counter and an agent passes it to a stock employee who retrieves the items from various areas in the warehouse. In an effort to speed service, they are considering changes to their warehouse layout to try and reduce the distance traveled by their stock employees. The warehouse has six main inventory areas that must be organized in a 2 x 3 layout as shown below. The average daily 2-way flow of stock employees between the inventory areas is shown in the following table. A B 79 A 48 45 MUA D 65 59 34 E 25 75 55 41 F 84 93 63 69 80 E F a) (4 marks) Starting with the current layout below, perform an operations sequence analysis to design a layout that minimizes the distance that stock employees must travel. The original layout has 554 units of non-adjacent travel, calculate and show the non-adjacent travel for the recommended layout. By how many units will your recommended layout increase total travel? AB C-D E- F b) (2 marks) If it takes 2 minutes to travel between adjacent inventory areas, what is the total daily travel time for stock employees given the current and the recommended layouts