The Gulf Shipping Company in Dubai, UAE, has four terminal docks in its warehouse. Arriving trucks form
Question:
The Gulf Shipping Company in Dubai, UAE, has four terminal docks in its warehouse. Arriving trucks form a single line and use one of the four available docks for loading and unloading of the cargo. Truck arrivals are Poisson distributed, and the average arrival rate of truck is 8 trucks per hour. The loading/unloading times of cargo have a negative exponential distribution, and the average time to load/unload a truck is 20 minutes.
1. Compute P0, Lq, Wq, Ls, and Ws for this terminal dock waiting line system.
2. If the average cost of loading/unloading a truck per terminal dock is $100 an hour, and the average waiting time cost of a truck is $150 an hour, compute the total expected cost per day. Assume a 10-hour working day.
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Operations Management Managing Global Supply Chains
ISBN: 978-1506302935
1st edition
Authors: Ray R. Venkataraman, Jeffrey K. Pinto