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An Employee Scheduling Problem: Air-Express


  • An express shipping company – guarantees o/night delivery
  • Various hubs across the country – shipments go to hubs, then on to their destination
  • Manager of Baltimore hub is concerned about labour costs and wants to investigate the most effective way of scheduling of workers
  • Hub open 7 days per week
  • # packages varies from 1 day to the next
  • An estimate of the number of workers needed on each day of the week has been calculated using historical data
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Step 1: Defining the Decision Variables

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Step 2:Defining the Objective Function

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Step 3: Defining the Constraints

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Step 4: Implementing the Model

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