An Analysis of How Shop Layouts affect on Efficiency in Two Grooming Shop

Abstract

Along with the expansion in demand for grooming shop, groomers come up against increasing in work load. Therefore, high value-added and more efficiency are required in the grooming shop industry as a whole. With that kind of background, one hypothesis that the shop layout has a significant influence on workability of groomers and the shop's profitability was generated in a major Japanese grooming shop (named X company).
The purpose of this paper is to confirm the validity of this hypothesis. More concretely, X company's two grooming shops, which were regarded as to be contrastive in work efficiency, were selected as the subject and time study was conducted. In addition, this paper analyzed impacts that shop layout influenced on work hours.