Bill First general Manager of Worthmore dept. Store has estimated that every hour of customer time spent waiting in line for the sales clerk to become avvailable cost the store $100 in lost sales and goodwill. Customers arrive at the checkout counter at a rate of 30 per hour, and the avareage service time is 3 minutes. The Poisson disdribution describes the arrivals and the service times are exponentially distributed. The number of sales clerks can be 2,3, or 4 with each one working at the same rate. Bill estimates the salary & benefits for each clerk to be $10 per hour. The store is open 10 hours per day. a) Find the average time in line if 2,3 and 4 clerks are used.
b) What is the total time spent waiting in line each day if 2,3, and 4 clerks are used?
c) Calculate the total of daily waiting cost and service cost if 2, 3 and 4 clerks are used.
What is the minimum total daily cost?

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1. the sum of all activities involved in getting high-quality products into the marketplace

2.operations

3. the principle of looking at the supply chain as a whole in order to improve the overall flow through the system.

4. produced; performed

5. activities producing tangible products, such as radios, newspapers, buses, and textbooks.

6. activities producing intangible and tangible products, such as entertainment, transportation, and education.

7.   customer focus

8. analyzing a competitor's products to identify desirable improvements

9. the systematic direction and control of the processes that transform resources into finished projects that create value for and provide benefits to consumers.

10. operation management.

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