For Problem 2, the SA parameters are set to ¹"3,899,145, "0.998 and el"5000 by using the equations and procedures given in Section 2.2. The difference between upper and lower bounds is around 200,000 for this problem. Two experiments are carried out. Experiment 1 is done with no shifting costs; i.e. it is equivalent to 5 single period layout problems. The optimal solution