A linear programming computer package is needed. Epsilon Airlines services predominately the eastern and southeastern United States. A vast majority of Epsilon's customers make reservations through Epsilon's website, but a small percentage of customers make reservations via phone. Epsilon employs call-center personnel to handle these reservations along with any problems with the website reservation system and for the rebooking of flights for customers if their plans change or their travel is disrupted. Staffing the call center appropriately is a challenge for Epsilon's management team. Having too many employees on hand is a waste of money, but having too few results in very poor customer service and the potential loss of customers. Epsilon analysts have estimated the minimum number of call-center employees needed by day of week for the upcoming vacation season (June, July, and the first two weeks of August). These estimates are given in the following table. s.t. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Day Saturday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Minimum Number of Employees Needed 60 The call-center employees work five consecutive days and then have two consecutive days off. An employee may start work any day of the week. Each call-center employee receives the same salary. Assume that the schedule cycles and ignore start-up and stopping of the schedule. Develop a model that will minimize the total number of call center employees needed to meet the minimum requirements. (Let X, the number of call-center employees who start work on day i where/1 Monday, 2 Tuesday, etc). = Min 45 40 45 80 75 35 Sunday Ху Хуа Ху Хар Ху Хар Худо Find the optimal solution. (X₁ X₂ X₂ X₁ X₂ Xq Xy) | Give the number of call-center employees that exceed the minimum required. (M. Tu. W, Th, F, Sa. Su)

The Dahlia Medical Center has 31 labor rooms, 18 combination labor and delivery rooms, and 5 delivery rooms. All of these facilities operate around the clock. Time spent in labor rooms varies from hours to days, with an average of about a day. The average uncomplicated delivery requires about one hour in the delivery room. The average time in a combination labor-delivery room is about 24 hours. During an exceptionally busy three-day period, 109 healthy babies were born at Dahlia Medical Center. 60 babies were born in separate labor and delivery rooms and 49 were born in combined labor and delivery rooms. Which of the facilities (labor rooms, combination labor and delivery rooms, or delivery rooms) had the greatest utilization rate? had the highest utilization rate of %. (Enter your response as a percent rounded to two decimal places.) The combination labor and delivery rooms labor rooms delivery rooms

Adham is the HR manager at XYZ Company since 2013. Adham successfully performs various HR activities including recruitment, selection, appraisal, pay, and so forth. However, when it comes to performing job analysis tasks, he always seeks the assistance of an HR external consultant. Adham has lately been preparing information relating to the "digital marketing expert" vacancy. He has mentioned that the candidate is expected to: (1) hold a bachelor's degree in marketing, (2) have two years of experience in the digital marketing field, and (3) be fluent in English and French. Once Adham finished preparing the necessary information, he contacted the HR consultant for further assistance. The scenario shows that the form of outsourcing taking place is and that the HR consultant will most likely advise Adham to place the above-mentioned points under the announcing the vacancy to the public. section before Discrete services outsourcing job specification Business process outsourcing, job…

In management science, as with many things, "new" is not always "better" and "analysis" doesn't always beat "intuition." To apply management science correctly, it is important to understand the relative advantages of intuition and analysis in a given situation and to be able to judge whether the benefits of an optimal solution are worth the time and effort needed to find the optimal solution. Review On Social Network Analysis in a Supply Chain Context In this paper, Borgatti and Li (2009) explore the application of a relatively new and very active field of study, social network analysis (SNA), to some long-standing supply chain management (SCM) problems. They argue that the application of SNA to SCM offers significant benefits to the companies that are willing to explore this new frontier. Post your analysis of the methods presented by Borgatti and Li (2009). At a minimum, be sure to address the following: Choose one application of SNA to SCM that you consider most promising and…

A manufacturing plant produces a product 'A' that requires one unit of 'B' and ½ unit of 'C'. Each unit of 'B' is comprised of one unit of 'D', two units of 'E', and one unit of 'F'. Each unit of 'C' requires ½ unit of 'G' and three units of 'H'. The manufacturing lead times for the components are as follows: 'A' - two weeks, 'B' - one week, 'C' - two weeks, 'D' - two weeks, 'E' - three weeks, 'F' - one week, 'G' - two weeks, 'H' - one week. There are 20 units in stock for each of these components. 100 units of 'A' are needed for delivery in seven weeks: a) Develop the product structure and indexed bill of materials for the product. b) Create a gross and net requirements plan for the manufacturer of the product.

An order for 200 units of a product is processed on work centers A and B. The set up time on A is 45 minutes and the run time is 5 minutes per piece. The set up time on B is 40 minutes and the run time is 8 minutes per piece. The wait time between the two operations is 2 hours. The move time between A and B is 15 minutes. Wait time after operation B is 1 hour and the move time into stores is 50 minutes. There is no queue at either work station. Calculate the total manufacturing lead time for the order.

The Dahlia Medical Center has 35 labor​ rooms, 18 combination labor and delivery​ rooms, and 2 delivery rooms. All of these facilities operate around the clock. Time spent in labor rooms varies from hours to​ days, with an average of about a day. The average uncomplicated delivery requires about one hour in the delivery room. The average time in a combination​ labor-delivery room is about 24 hours. During an exceptionally busy​ three-day period,109 healthy babies were born at Dahlia Medical Center. 57babies were born in separate labor and delivery rooms and 52 were born in combined labor and delivery rooms. Which of the facilities​ (labor rooms, combination labor and delivery​ rooms, or delivery​ rooms) had the greatest utilization​ rate?   The ________________% had the highest utilization rate of_____________% (Enter your response as a percent rounded to two decimal​ places.)

The Dahlia Medical Center has 34 labor rooms, 18 combination labor and delivery rooms, and 5 delivery rooms. All of these facilities operate around the clock. Time spent in labor rooms varies from hours to days, with an average of about a day. The average uncomplicated delivery requires about one hour in the delivery room. The average time in a combination labor-delivery room is about 24 hours. During an exceptionally busy three-day period, 101 healthy babies were born at Dahlia Medical Center. 59 babies were born in separate labor and delivery rooms and 42 were born in combined labor and delivery rooms. Which of the facilities (labor rooms, combination labor and delivery rooms, or delivery rooms) had the greatest utilization rate? ▼had the highest utilization rate of %. (Enter your response as a percent rounded to two decimal places.) The combination labor and delivery rooms delivery rooms labor rooms

You work as the administrative manager in charge of the operations of the medical services office that brings together over 10 specialists from different health fields. Each specialist has about 5 administrative employees who help with coding, billing, customer service, and other administrative tasks. You supervise all administrative employees. For two months you have noticed that a series of conflicts have arisen between the employees you supervise, which you must address promptly to avoid escalation. These are the conflicts that have been identified: A new position has been opened to supervise night operations and two of the employees have requested it. However, both have resorted to demonstrating that the other does not have the capabilities to rise to the position. These interpersonal differences have resulted in a tense work environment.It has been rumored that one of the medical specialists is going to retire, so it is possible that he will put the five administrative employees…

Rollmore, a non-union manufacturing company decides it needs input on improving its work processes and procedures and decides to create employee committees to provide general feedback about things such as work rules and organizational policies and practices in hopes of improving efficiency. Rollmore asks ten employees to serve on such committees. Rollmore asks these employees to bring to their meetings, which include management representatives, concerns and ideas from their coworkers. Rollmore schedules these committees to meet once a month for two hours and provides lunch and a conference room for the participants. Are these employee committees legal or illegal? Why or why not?