dss Plant Layout & Material Handling

A manufacturing facility produces 200 items per day and ships all of them to their temporary warehouse. They have a contract with a trucking company to pick up the items for delivery to stores every 5 days. The company always keeps 5 days worth of inventory as their safety stock.

a) Determine the maximum and average inventory level that is stored in this warehouse

b) If each item is 5 x 2 x 1 and they can be stacked five units high, determine the minimum floor and volume space requirements for this warehouse. Consider 7% of the total storage area to account for isles.

c) What is the average space utilization of this warehouse?