Das Buch stellt die Grundlagen des Operations Management im Call Center anwendungsorientiert dar. Hierbei zielen die Autoren vorrangig auf Inbound Call Center ab, bei denen die Anrufe von außen eingehen. Im Vordergrund steht der Prozess der Leistungserstellung im Call Center. Zunächst wird die...

In the present paper, we consider the demand management decisions of a manufacturer facing stochastic demand. While in the previous literature, either the order release decisions are fixed upon arrival or a single-stage production environment is assumed, we make online order acceptance and order...

In this study, we analyze a task scheduling problem with small time windows and care workers with different levels of qualification in a nursing home. A set of care tasks has to be assigned to a given number of care workers, so that the total earliness and tardiness from the nursing home...