Personnel scheduling using an integer programming model- an application at Avanti Blue-Nile Hotels.

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In this paper, we report perhaps a first of its kind application of management science in the Ethiopian hotel industry. Avanti Blue Nile Hotels, a newly established five star hotel in Bahir Dar, is the company for which we developed an integer programming model that determines an optimal weekly shift schedule for the Hotel's engineering department personnel while satisfying several constraints including weekly rest requirements per employee, rest requirements between working shifts per employee, required number of personnel per shift, and other constraints. The model is implemented on an excel solver routine. The model enables the company's personnel department management to develop a fair personnel schedule as needed and to effectively utilize personnel resources while sa

SUBMITTER: Kassa BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3923920 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature