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An e-commerce retailer operates a fulfillment center that has four basic steps: picking, sorting, ...
An e-commerce retailer operates a fulfillment center that has four basic steps: picking, sorting, packaging, and loading. The staffing and processing times (for each worker) of the four steps are given in the table below:
Q3. Suppose the firm doesn't hire any additional workers but considers reassigning workers from one step to another with the goal of maximizing its capacity. For example, one worker could be removed from Picking and reassigned to Sorting. After that reassignment, Picking would have 18 workers and Sorting would have 11 . The firm can reassign as many workers as it wishes and processing times remain the same as listed above. After the reassignment, what would be the firm's capacity in orders/hour?
Consider that there happens to be just one station with processing time per order = 1+0.4+0.5+0.1 = 2 minutes The number of workers available at that station is 19+10+9+3 = 41 So,