FARE 3310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Aisle, Job Shop, Takt Time

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Course: FARE 3310
• Professor: Jamie Gruman

Document Summary

1. office layout -grouping of workers, equipment and spaces to provide comfort, safety, and movement of info. Maximizes information flows (movement of information is main distinction) Locate workers requiring frequent contact close to one another. Typically in state of flux (change) due to frequent technological changes. 2. retail layout- allocates shelf space and responds to customer behavior. Maximizes (high margin) product exposure (maximize profitability per square foot of floor space) Sales and profitability vary directly with customer exposure. Use prominent locations for high-impulse and high-margin items. Distribute power items to both sides of an aisle and disperse them to increase viewing of other items. Convey mission of store through careful positioning of lead-off department. Manufactures pay fees to retailers to get retailers to display (slot) their product. Contributing factors: limited shelf space, increasing number of new products, better information about s ales through pos data collection, closer control of inventory. 3. warehouse layout- addresses tradeoffs between space and material handling.