Operations Management
1. What is the need of a good facility layout planning? Select any automotive company of your choice, and do a detailed study of its facility layout.
2. Discuss the transportation methods for solving physical distribution and transportation problems. Solve the following Transportation Problem and find the total transportation Cost.
Plants /Warehouses | W1 | W2 | W3 | Supply |
P1 | 33 | 26 | 24 | 550 |
P2 | 21 | 28 | 31 | 350 |
P3 | 25 | 24 | 29 | 600 |
Demand | 400 | 600 | 500 |
3. In October 2005, Walmart announced plans to transform itself into one of the greenest corporations in the world. Then-CEO Lee Scott called sustainability “essential to our future success as a retailer.” The company has been especially vocal about shrinking its environmental footprint in China, its manufacturing hub.
(Source: Andy Kroll, Are Walmart’s Chinese Factories as Bad as Apple’s? Mother Jones, March/April2012 issue)
a. Discuss the major environmental aspects of production and its impact
b. What is environment protection act and how is it related to sustainability.