Discussion assignment for Operations Management
Waiting Lines
Many businesses utilize waiting lines to manage customer service. For example, banks, amusement parks, supermarket checkouts, fast food restaurants, call centers, check-in counters at airports, emergency departments of hospitals, and so many more. In the course of your week, consider an experience you had that led to a temporary demand for service that exceeded capacity, for example, variation in service duration or arrival rates, which led to a waiting line.
Address the following requirements:
Explain common measures of system performance and which of the common measures may be most effective for the business where you experienced a waiting line.
Describe why that measure would be effective and develop a strategy to minimize the waiting line while minimizing cost.
Develop a calculation to aid the business in making their operational choices.
Directions:
Use APA7 style (Page format, in text citation , and references)
Discuss the concepts, principles, and theories from your textbook. Cite your textbooks and cite at least 3 peer reviewed references. Remember the book in this course is Stevenson, W. (2021). Operations management (14th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin.
Your initial post should address all components of the question with a 500 word limit.
Reply to at least two discussion posts with comments that further and advance the discussion topic. . ((Dear tutor the discussion assignments required 1 initial post (which is the answer for the questions above) and two replies post. Each reply 150 words with at least one peer reviewed references. unfortunately I don’t have access to view my peers discussion therefore I will just need a general two replies about the same subject.)
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