Reference no: EM132684069

A large, high volume warehouse-style discount grocery & retail operation receives pallets of wholesale goods to stock their shelves.
Each day the Shipping/Receiving (S/R) Manager verifies & logs receipt of pallets which takes about 30 minutes (0.5 hours per pallet, hpp).
The S/R manager then sends the received pallets to the staging area for pricing. It takes just about 75 minutes (1.25 hours) to price a pallet of goods; consequently, there are two "pricers".

The priced items are then placed on the shelves throughout the warehouse by nine "stockers" at an average rate of about a pallet every 90 minutes (1.5 hours) per stocker.

At the same time the stockers are placing items on shelves, an employee called a "shelf-spotter" rotates stock forward in the shelving to make room for the stockers, which takes about 12 minutes (0.20 hours) per pallet-quantity of items.

At the end of each day an analyst performs an operation called "cycle-counting" to reconcile the quantity of shelved goods with a computer report. The analyst cycle-counts for 15 minutes (0.25 hours) for each pallet-count of goods shelved.

What is the capacity in pallets per hour