FLY US AIRLINES FlyUS airlines has a telephone reservation system for booking flights. An operator handles all the calls made to the system with no provision for waiting for the customers. If a customer makes a call while operator is handling another customer, the call is automatically blocked by the system. Airlines wants to design an optimal system to handle this by making one of the following choices., 1) Increase the number of operators 2) Add queuing system. These are aimed at achieving 85% service level, given that arrival of calls follow poisson distribution and the waiting time between calls follows negative exponential distribution. Given, λ = 16 calls per hour and μ = 20/hour( 20 customers can be serviced to in an hour)
The service time for this store is normally distributed. This number was found by taking the maximum between 0 and the normally distributed service times. A zero-service time is used to for premade sandwiches, where the customer does not have to wait because the sandwich is ready for them when they arrive. End service time is the sum of service begin time and service time.
Following the call, I created a plan that analysed the problem and outlined how it would provide customers with a
Operations team will be working on Holiday routes, to insure proper customers are service on days requested. Operations team has identify the long routes on the weekend has reroute routes to cut down on labor we have seen a great improvement on Saturday and Sunday branch closing time has improve as well. We will continue to work on the weekday’s routes and identify which routes needs to be improved. Management will monitor check in and check out process, to reduce time. Will continue to monitor time and attendance and provide proper disciplinary action if needed.
If we supposed that the service level agreement states that the system would not be offline or unavailable more than 45000 seconds a month then the goal would be to stay away from exciding the stated time. In the data from the years 2009-2017 we can see that the average total downtown is 44151.24 and we can determine that for the most part we are keeping with the goal of not exciding the 45000 mark. In the histogram, we can also see that there was also a high number of occurrences were the system was offline or unavailable for more than 45000.
Red Bead Experiment Submitted By: Sarabjeet Singh (C0712487) Arshdeep Singh (C0719013) Harshpreet Singh (C0713155) Lovish (C0717943) Introduction Red and white beads experiment explained in video mainly based on the Integrated Environment, Safety and Health Management System, it includes all the all the core functions of ISMS environmental management aspects in all five core management functions that support work planning or work scope, hazard analysis, hazard control, work performance, and feedback and improvement. The instructor of the Red Bead experiment, Dr. Deming started with the definition of the work scope, the scope definition serves the purpose of stating exactly what it is that an organization does that is certified to be effectively controlled by the requirements of the standard. Dr. Deming gave different examples by the red and white beads.
Case Analysis #1 – “Southwest Airlines: Is It Still the King of Cheap Flights” 1. Answer the questions at the end of the case. 1. Airline customers can be segmented in a variety of ways. Two of these include by purpose of travel and their destinations.
With the use of this framework in reengineering its call centers and the automation of manual processes through call centers. Malaysia Airlines was able to achieve the following: Cutting call center costs by 18% and tripling sales, through phone, e-mail, fax, and web chat they were able to service customers, Interactive voice response or online ticket payment, and Tracking of agent productivity done by managers. In doing the following, they were able to streamline their processes. Malaysia Airlines measure the strategic metric. It measures the functional goals so that Malaysia Airlines can boost their customer payment capabilities.
A customer demand module would be used to schedule the flight timings based on the customer demand. E.g., if more number of customers traveled from Pakistan to Dubai in the timings of 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm, then system will automatically schedule flights from Pakistan to Dubai with in these timings. Flight Scheduling Flights will be scheduled using the weather forecaster and customer demand modules. Database
Answer: (a): Market segmentation is the first step in defining and selecting a target market to pursue and penetrate. Basically, market segmentation is the process of splitting up an overall market into two or more groups/classes of consumers. Each group of consumers is called as a market segment. Each group (or market segment) should be similar in terms of certain characteristics or product/ service needs. In business world, market segmentation is considered to be a most important tool in enabling marketers to better meet customer needs and requirements.
Solution : Introduction: A budget is an estimation of particular commodity, quantity etc. It can be prepared for any number of days but generally it is prepared wither for a year or quarter... A budget may or may not become the actual outcome.
Specify organisational standards of customer service So the customer segment of the Ritz-Carlton is a wealthy clientele who has very high expectations since they use to get upscale products because they are ready to pay more to have more. Therefore, the differentiation of the Ritz-Carlton is made on an efficient and effective customer service. As we know the needs are general but the wants are specific, so the companies have to make the difference so as to become the customer’s wants. For example, customers will need to book an hotel room but some customers will want to book an Ritz-Carlton hotel room.
With a rise in fuel prices and environmental factors (such as terrorist threats) reducing air travel, airlines continue to struggle. In union environments, where staff (like pilots and flight attendance) is heavily unionized, the industry has not been able to cut their labor costs. New low-cost industry entrants are adding to the pressure the traditional
1.0 Introduction to Strategic Management Strategic management practices the formation; achievement and reaching the major objectives executed by the management of the company, by considering the capital and a task of the internal and external environments in which the company wishes to compete. 1.1 Introduction to Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines (SIA) is established in year 1972 with remarkable performance among its competitors in the industry throughout its 35-year-long history till date (Heracleous & Wirtz, 2009). According to Singapore Airlines (2014), SIA is one of the youngest aircraft fleets worldwide to destinations crossing a network of more six continents, with its iconic Singapore Girl providing excellent standard of service to customers. Throughout the years of operations, SIA has an impressive ever-growing list of industry 's leading innovations such as offering free headsets along with a choice of meals and drinks in Economy Class in the 1970s, followed by introducing satellite based in-flight telephones in year 1991, involving an ample panel of renowned chefs, the International Culinary Panel, to provide lush in-flight meals in year 1998, developing audio and video on demand (AVOD) capabilities on KrisWorld in year 2001, and lastly flying the airbus of A380 from Singapore to Sydney on 25 October 2007 (Singapore Airlines, 2014).
Introduction FlyDubai is a low cost airline that was established at the heart of the global recession by optimistic investors. The airline flight coverage is to regions that are within five hours margin of flying from Dubai. The airline was established by the Emirates government. The airline is not a competitor to the major airlines but poses competition to other low cost airlines. This marketing audit aims at looking at the potential markets for the airline and establishing ways of being established in them.
Consequently, Ryanair in order to efficiently handle thousands of passengers daily it is necessary to use highly standardised services (Barnes, 2008, p.189). Additionally, Ryanair chooses to operate mass services process aiming to achieve economies of scale in order to maximise the margins. Figure 1 – The Service Process