The total compensation for the new employee

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Reconsider Prob. 17.6-9. The total compensation for the new employee would be $8 per hour, which is just half that for the cashier. It is estimated that the grocery store incurs lost profit due to lost future business of $0.08 for each minute that each customer has to wait (including service time). The manager now wants to determine on an expected total cost basis whether it would be worthwhile to hire the new person.

(a) Which decision model presented in Sec. 18.4 applies to this problem? Why?

(b) Use this model to determine whether to continue the status quo or to adopt the proposal.

Prob. 17.6-9

The Friendly Neighbor Grocery Store has a single checkout stand with a full-time cashier. Customers arrive randomly at the stand at a mean rate of 30 per hour. The service-time distribution is exponential, with a mean of 1.5 minutes. This situation has resulted in occasional long lines and complaints from customers. Therefore, because there is no room for a second checkout stand, the manager is considering the alternative of hiring another person to help the cashier by bagging the groceries. This help would reduce the expected time required to process a customer to 1 minute, but the distribution still would be exponential. The manager would like to have the percentage of time that there are more than two customers at the checkout stand down below 25 percent. She also would like to have no more than 5 percent of the customers needing to wait at least 5 minutes before beginning service, or at least 7 minutes before finishing service

(a) Use the formulas for the M/M/1 model to calculate L, W, Wq, Lq, P0, P1, and P2 for the current mode of operation. What is the probability of having more than two customers at the checkout stand?

(b) Use the Excel template for this model to check your answers in part (α). Also find the probability that the waiting time before beginning service exceeds 5 minutes, and the probability that the waiting time before finishing service exceeds 7 minutes.

(c) Repeat part (α) for the alternative being considered by the manager.

(d) Repeat part (b) for this alternative.

(e) Which approach should the manager use to satisfy her criteria as closely as possible?

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