An Approach to Capacity Planning of Distribution Warehouses for X-Firm

X-Firm is known as an innovative company that manufactures and markets high quality foods and beverages. X-firm started with only one manufacturing facility and distribution warehouse at Site I. To deal with the promising market developments, X-Frim expanded to Site II in 2013 andf has decided to execute the second expansion plan, i.e. adding a new production plant at Site II and opening a manufacturing faciltity at Site III in 2015. X-Firm has made a capacity plan for the second expansion based on experience and comon sense, but they are a bit doubtful about the reslult. X-firm wants to validat their current capacity plan with another capacity plan that atkes into account a scientific approach in its calculation. Therefore, the main objective of this research is: To find an approach to come up with a capacity plan for X-Firm's distribution warehouses.