An important shortcoming in the Business Process Redesign (BPR) literature is the lack of concrete guidance on how to improve an existing business process. Our earlier work has aim...
Monique H. Jansen-Vullers, Mariska Netjes, Hajo A....
A call center with both contract and non-contract customers was giving priority to the contract customers only in off-peak hours, precisely when having priority was least importan...
Customer care in technical domains is increasingly based on e-mail communication, allowing for the reproduction of approved solutions. Identifying the customer's problem is o...
Stephan Busemann, Sven Schmeier, Roman Georg Arens
In this paper we develop a two stage algorithm for scheduling call centers with strict SLAs and arrival rate uncertainty. The first cut schedule can be developed in less than a mi...
Inbound call center operations are challenging to manage; there is considerable uncertainty in estimates of arrival rates, and the operation is often subject to strict service lev...
Thomas R. Robbins, Terry P. Harrison, Deborah J. M...