Principles of Operations Management

Question:Aldi has witnessed growth rates of 40% year on year since January 2012. This level of growth has raised a number of challenges for their Regional Distribution Centres (RDC - warehouses) and capacity levels. It has been noted that they no longer have enough capacity in the freezer component of their operations (this is a very large drive in freezer, not the sort of thing you see in the supermarket or at home). Using the academic literature as a basis, derive the general principles required to meet this challenge and then outline a solution specifically for their Neston Operations