What is facility planning? How proper facility planning helps in warehousing system?

What is store ledger? Discuss its importance in warehousing system ?

Identify the skills required for a efficient and effective warehouse manager? Discuss them in brief.

With help of suitable block diagram, explain Warehouse Management Process

Write a short conversation/dialogue of about 5 turns on any two of the following:
i) Your grandfather is flying in from London this afternoon and you need to leave early to pick him up from the airport. Ask permission from your boss.
ii) A friend says to you ‘You look so tired”. Give reasons to your friend.
iii) Introduce your new colleague to others in the office. Say a few words about him/her. Also write about the response of the others in the office. 

Describe a warehousing. Why Warehouse play an important role in industries?

You are a group of 4 friends, interested in visiting Lakshadweep. You have seen an advertisement of Sharp Travels on the web. Write an email to them to enquire about a one week trip to Lakshadweep. Ask about the following:

 Places you should visit
 Accommodation
 Organization of sightseeing
 Total cost per head

Write shorts notes on only two the following:
(a) Value Analysis
(b) Bulk ship strategy
(c) Crossdocking strategy

What do you mean by logistics management and how does it relate with the supply chain management?

What do you understand by supply chain management? What are potential benefits of managing the supply chain?

Determine the number of containers needed for a workstation that uses 100 parts per hour if the time for a container to complete a cycle (i.e move, wait, empty, return, fill) is 90 minutes, and a standard container holds 84 parts. An inefficiency factor of 0.10 is currently being used.

What do you mean by ‘Kanban’ and what is its role in production system.

Pick out the correct form of the verbs:
i In the UK today, the number of women in work reached/has reached nearly 50% of the working population.
ii In the 1950s and early 1960s, very few women went/have gone out to work.
iii In those days, husbands often didn’t let/haven’t let their wives get jobs.
iv Today the situation changed/has changed a lot.
v In the 1970s, new laws made/have made employers offer women and men equal pay and conditions.
vi Several changes in the present law gave/have given women today better conditions than before.
vii However, women’s average salaries at the moment didn’t rise/haven’t risen to average level of men’s salaries.
viii This is partly because the biggest increase in work for women in the last 20 years was/has been in part-time jobs.
ix It is also because most of today’s women didn’t climb/haven’t climbed to higher levels of management. 

x Most of the women didn’t try/haven’t tried to do so either.

What are the various wastes of manufacturing and describe any two of them with suitable examples?

Describe ‘5S’ technique used under Kaizen for workplace

What will be the total costs resulting from this plan?

Develop a level output plan that yields zero inventory at the end of period 4.

Production manager of a producer of lawn movers and leaf blowers, has the following information on its major product:

(i) Regular time production capacity = 5600 units/period
(ii) Overtime production costs = Rs. 150/Unit
(iii) Inventory costs = Rs. 25/ Unit/period (based on the ending inventory)
(iv) Backlog Costs = Rs. 70/unit/period
(v) Beginning inventory = 500 units
Demand (in units) for periods 1, 2, 3 and 4 are 4500, 3300, 2100 and 2600 respectively.

A prospective client visits your showroom to buy an Air conditioner on installments. Write a dialogue with him explaining the features of your products and the terms and conditions.

You want to seek an appointment with the Financial Controller of a big business house. Develop a telephonic conversation with his/ her secretary.