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BPM
2006
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
A Redesign Framework for Call Centers
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....
MANSCI
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Service-Level Agreements in Call Centers: Perils and Prescriptions
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...
Joseph M. Milner, Tava Lennon Olsen
ANLP
2000
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13 years 9 months ago
Message Classification in the Call Center
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
WSC
2008
13 years 10 months ago
A simulation based scheduling model for call centers with uncertain arrival rates
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...
Thomas R. Robbins, Terry P. Harrison
WSC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Partial cross training in call centers with uncertain arrivals and global service level agreements
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...