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Author: Rhonda Righter

Affiliation: University of California, United States

Keyword(s): Customer Flexibility, Routing, Scheduling, Service Systems, Call Centers.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Applications ; Methodologies and Technologies ; Operational Research ; Pattern Recognition ; Queuing Theory ; Routing ; Scheduling ; Software Engineering ; Stochastic Processes

Abstract: In many service systems with multiple types of customers, providing server flexibility, e.g., by cross-training servers, is very expensive. On the other hand, there is often inherent flexibility in some of the customers that is not used by the system. I argue that taking advantage of such flexibility can create a win-win-win situation, in which overall performance can be greatly improved, and in which both flexible and non-flexible customers benefit. Moreover, only a small subset of customers needs to be flexible to obtain nearly the benefit of full flexibility.

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Righter, R. (2014). Taking Advantage of Partial Customer Flexibility - An Inexpensive Means of Improving Performance. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - ICORES; ISBN 978-989-758-017-8; ISSN 2184-4372, SciTePress, pages 301-304. DOI: 10.5220/0004923403010304

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JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - ICORES
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PY - 2014
SP - 301
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DO - 10.5220/0004923403010304
PB - SciTePress