“…Unfortunately, the distribution literature is sparse in providing answers [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]. The recent literature on capacity planning has primarily dealt with production and inventory capacity expansion scheduling [17,18,19, a notable exception is 20] or the location and number of distribution facilities for an entire distribution system [21,22]. A third subset of the broader capacity planning problem defined by Fetter [23], Veinott and Wagner [24] and others [25,26,27] deals with the determination of the space requirements for individual storage facilities in logistical systems [28].…”