Simulation as an Aid to Staffing a Customer Service Function

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1287/mantech.3.2.160

This paper describes the use of simulation to solve a variation of the repairman problem too complex to be handled by analytical means. It describes the operation of a model simulating a service activity and the use of the model to provide data for management decisions.

Management Technology, ISSN 0542-4917, was published as a separate journal from 1960 to 1964. In 1965 it was merged into Management Science.

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