Supply Chain Optimization for Stinky Bathrooms Ltd.

The assignment content is about Supply Chain Diagram, DILO (Detailed Information for Location and Operations) Analysis, Activity Schedule, and Space Required calculation. The diagram shows the supply chain process of a company called Stinky Bathrooms Limited that sells bathroom furniture including accessories, suites, and spare parts. The company acquires materials from different areas like Far East, Europe, and UK, palletizes them, and sends them to its outlets. The DILO Analysis is used to identify total time spent in the organization, while the Activity Schedule presents the sequence of activities to be performed and their dependencies. The calculation of space required shows that Bathroom Accessories require the most space, followed by Bathroom Suites and Spare Parts.

Answer 1
Supply Chain Diagram is a pictorial representation of the whole process from the raw material to
the manufacturer to mediator to final consumer in case of manufacturing entities. In case of
trading companies, it shows the whole process from purchases to sales.
Supply Chain Diagram:
DILO Analysis:
Far East
Not Palletised
Europe
Palletised
UK
Palletised
Bathroom Suites- 70%
Bathroom Accessories- 20%
Spare Parts 100%
Bathroom Suites- 20%
Bathroom Accessories-
30%
Bathroom Suites- 10%
Bathroom Accessories-
50%
Firm’s Outlet
70% sales to south of
England
70% sales evenly in UK

It is the techniaue which helps in identifying the total time spent in an organization. It gives an
understanding of roles and responsibilities performed by different members of the organization. Steps to
develop a DILO:
1. Determine the scope: Scope can be defined by analyzing the processes, objectives and other
functions.
2. Convey your objectives: Before performing DILO, we should convey the resn why we are
performing the DILO analysis.
3. Identify Core activities: All the activities to be performed needs to be analysed and then it has
to be bifurcated who will perform which activity.
4. Prepare DILO Worksheet: A worksheet needs to be prepared mentioning some questions
which every employee has to fill.
5. Analyse activities of collate participants: Every member of an organization were asked some
question regarding their activity and that can be analyzed by giving a score between 1 to 5 by
analyzing their time utilization.
6. Analyzing DILO worksheet: Analyze the worksheet filled up by the employee and find out
discrepancies if any.
7. Set up Plan for improvement: After analyzing, develop a plan for improving any discrepancy.
Activity Schedule:
Activity Schedule is the method of presenting the activities of the project that defines the sequence of
activities to be performed and the dependencies between them, if any.
Stinky Bathrooms limited sells bathroom furniture including bathroom accessories, suits and spare parts.
Activities are:
1. Stinky acquires different materials from different areas like from Far East, Europe and UK
2. Pallet configuration are done for all materials received from Europe and UK
3. After palletization, materials are sent to the outlets of the company which are scattered in south
of England and evenly across UK
4. All outbound materials are palletized

5. All the outlets are open for 360 days in a year.
Answer 2
We need to deliver on 15 docks for delivering the goods on the required location within given deadline
i.e. 10 A.M. We need to ensure timely delivery on ports as materials need to be transferred by 10 am
daily.
Space required for one order
Own
Order
Liner Unit
Total
Unit
Space required
Cu.m
Bathroom
Accessories 25.00
10.0
0 250.00 41.50
Bathroom Suites 8.00 3.00 24.00 19.99
Spare Parts 50.00
50.0
0
2,500.0
0 0.69
2,774.0
0 62.18
Independent
Order
Liner Unit
Total
Unit
Space required
Cu.m
Bathroom
Accessories 10.00
10.0
0 100.00 16.60
Bathroom Suites

3.00 3.00 9.00 7.50
Spare Parts 30.00
50.0
0
1,500.0
0 0.41
1,609.0
0 24.51
Answer 3
As per the current stock of all the parts Bathroom Accessories , Bathroom suites and Spare Parts it is
1,012.8 Cu.m , Maximum space is required for Bathroom suites as its one 1 SKU take approx. 0.83
cu.m. space in comparison of Bathroom Accessories which take only 0.167 cu.m. space for storage one
SKU.
As per the company sales data, Bathroom accessories has the highest sales value per cubic meter which
is 500 pond per cubic meter in compare to bathroom suites 100 pound per cubic meter. So highest rank
should be given to Bathroom Accessories and maximum space align to this. And minimum space for
Spare parts as it has least sales value.
Total Space required is given in the below table.
Sales Sales per cubic meter Totalt Cu.m
30,000,000 100 300,000
30,000,000 500 60,000
5,000,000 1000 5,000
Answer 4
In the present scenario, Company is picking material from Far East, UK and Europe. Materials from Far
East are not palletized. Pallet is nothing but a type of rack to store the goods while transportation. It will
require less space while transportation hence will reduce the transportation cost. As of now a large