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Manpower Allocation Questions

This document contains 5 questions regarding manpower allocation and scheduling to minimize costs. Question 1 provides staffing needs for a bank by hour and asks to determine a schedule to minimize personnel costs. Question 2 provides minimum engineer requirements by day for a railway project. Question 3 provides staffing needs by shift for a restaurant. Question 4 provides officer requirements by time period for security on Republic Day. Question 5 asks to minimize doctor employment for a hospital by formulating as a linear program.

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Manpower Allocation Questions

This document contains 5 questions regarding manpower allocation and scheduling to minimize costs. Question 1 provides staffing needs for a bank by hour and asks to determine a schedule to minimize personnel costs. Question 2 provides minimum engineer requirements by day for a railway project. Question 3 provides staffing needs by shift for a restaurant. Question 4 provides officer requirements by time period for security on Republic Day. Question 5 asks to minimize doctor employment for a hospital by formulating as a linear program.

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Manpower Allocation Numerical:

Q1. State Bank of India is a busy bank that has requirements for between 10 and 18 Cashiers,
depending on the time of day. The lunch time, from noon to 2 P.M., is usually heaviest. below
indicate the workers needed at various hours that the bank is open.

Time Period Numbers of Cashiers required


09:00 to 10:00 10
10:00 to 11:00 12
11:00 to 12:00 14
12:00 to 13:00 16
13:00 to 14:00 18
14:00 to 15:00 17
15:00 to 16:00 15
16:00 to 17:00 10

The bank now employs 12 full-time Cashiers, but many people are on its roster of available part-time
employees. A part-time employee must put in exactly four hours per day but can start anytime
between 9 A.M. and 1 P.M.

9 A.M. to 5 p.m. but are allowed 1 hour for lunch. (Half of the full-timers eat at 11 A.M., the other
half at noon.)

By corporate policy, the bank limits part-time hours to a maximum of 50% of the day's total
requirement. Part-timers earn $8 per hour (or $32 per day) on average, and full-timers earn $100
per day in salary and benefits, on average. The bank would like to set a schedule that would
minimize its total personnel costs. It will release one or more of its full-time Cashiers if it is profit-
able to do so.

Q.2 Civil Engineers in L & T Infrastructure Limited have to work five consecutive days and have two
consecutive days off. Their five days of work can start on any day of the week and their schedule
rotates indefinitely. The Organization requires the following minimum number of Engineers to work
on given days as they have to finish a big Railway Project:

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday


40 55 70 65 50 45 40

The Maximum number of Engineers starting their five working days on the same day can be up to 30
engineers. Find the Minimum number of Engineers which they can employ on each day?

Q3. The famous Sankalp (South Indian Cuisine) is open 24 hours a day. Waiters and busboys report
for duty at 3 A.M., 7 A.M., 11 A.M., 3 P.M., 7 P.M., or 11 P.M., and each works an 8-hour shift. The
following table shows the minimum number of workers needed during the six periods into which the
day is divided. Sankalp’s scheduling problem is to determine how many waiters and busboys should
report for work at the start of each time period to minimize the total staff required for one day's
operation?
Period Time Number of Waiters & Busboys required
1 03:00 to 07:00 3
2 07:00 to 11:00 12
3 11:00 to 15:00 16
4 15:00 to 19:00 9
5 19:00 to 23:00 11
6 23:00 to 03:00 4

Q4. The security and traffic force, on the eve of Republic day, must satisfy the staffing requirements
as shown in below table. Officers work 6-hours a shift starting at each of the three-hour intervals as
shown below. How many officers should report for duty at the beginning of each time period in
order to minimize the total number of officers needed to satisfy the requirements?

Time Number of officers required


06:00 to 09:00 8
09:00 to 12:00 10
12:00 to 15:00 15
15:00 to 18:00 7
18:00 to 21:00 5
21:00 to 00:00 8
00:00 to 03:00 4
03:00 to 06:00 5

Q5. Evening shift resident doctors in a government hospital work five consecutive days and have two
consecutive days off. Their five days of work can start on any day of the week and their schedule
rotates indefinitely. The hospital requires the following minimum number of doctors to work on the
given days:

No more than 40 doctors can start their five working days on the same day. Formulate this problem
as an LP model to minimize the number of doctors employed by the hospital.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat


35 55 60 50 60 50 45

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