Telephone Call Centers¶
Gans, N., Koole, G., & Mandelbaum, A. (2003). Telephone Call Centers: Tutorial, Review, and Research Prospects. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 5(2), 79-141.
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Mechanisms¶
- Staffing Intensity Band
- Contact-center rostering makes this quantitative through queueing models such as Erlang C
This sourceTreats call-center staffing as choosing agent counts against arrival-rate demand and service-level targets using Erlang-C-based queueing analysis.
- Contact-center rostering makes this quantitative through queueing models such as Erlang C
- Staffing to Demand
- Its strength is aligning the largest and most flexible service resource — people — to known demand rhythms, and in labor-driven services the mathematics is well understood: call centers size staff with Erlang C
This sourceExplains call-center use of Erlang C to combine arrival rate and expected service time with agent count when evaluating waiting-time service targets.
- Its strength is aligning the largest and most flexible service resource — people — to known demand rhythms, and in labor-driven services the mathematics is well understood: call centers size staff with Erlang C
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