Question: Read the Italian Coffee House case study below. Use Arena simulation software to build a valid simulation model for the company and write a 2

Read the Italian Coffee House case study below. Use Arena simulation software to build a valid simulation
model for the company and write a 2,500(\pm 10%) word professional report that provides a comprehensive
analysis of the different scenarios and issues specified in the case study.
Case Study: Italian Coffee House
You have recently started a new job as a junior operations manager in the Italian Coffee House, a large
London based coffee shop chain. Your line manager has asked you to analyse the drink service process
performance of one of the chains London stores that is expecting increase in customer demand over the
next four months. Your manager has provided you the information below on the store located at busy
central London train station:
1. Customers arrive to the store as specified in Table 1 below.
Table 1: Customer interarrival times (in minutes)
Month Customer interarrival time (Exponential distribution)
1 Mean 1.7
2 Mean 1.6
3 Mean 1.5
4 Mean 1.4
2. The service process steps are:
i. Barista takes customer order and payment at Service Counter. This follows normal
distribution with mean of 1.5 minutes and standard deviation of 0.2 minutes. 50% of the
customers order coffee, 40% order tea and 10% order hot chocolate.
ii. Barista walks from the service counter to the drink station in order to prepare the drink. This
follows normal distribution with mean of 10 seconds and standard deviation of 0.2 seconds.
iii. Barista makes the drink ordered by the customer using either Coffee machine, Tea machine
or Hot Chocolate machine. Making coffee follows normal distribution with mean of 2
minutes and standard deviation of 0.2 minutes. Making tea follows normal distribution with
mean of 35 seconds and standard deviation of 0.2 seconds. Making hot chocolate follows
normal distribution with mean of 1.7 minutes and standard deviation of 0.2 minutes.
iv. Barista walks from the drink station back to service counter with the drink and hands the
drink to the customer. This follows normal distribution with mean of 15 seconds and
standard deviation of 0.2 seconds. Most customers now leave the coffee store. However,
10% of customers are unhappy with the quality of their drink and request the Barista to
remake the same drink. In this case, the Barista walks back to the drink station (this follows
normal distribution with mean of 10 seconds and standard deviation of 0.2 seconds) and
remake the same drink using the same drink machines and processing times as specified
earlier (joining the queue if the machine is busy). After this the Barista takes the remade
drink to the customer (this follows normal distribution with mean of 15 seconds and
standard deviation of 0.2 seconds as before). Again, there is 10% chance that the customer
rejects the drink and it need to be remade.
3. The store currently has the following resources continuously available: Three Baristas, two Service
Counters, one Coffee machine, one Tea machine, and one Hot Chocolate machine.
4. Same Barista completes all steps of the service process, i.e. takes the order and payment, makes
the drink, and delivers the drink to the customer (and if required remakes the drink).
5. When a customer arrives and if both Service Counter and Barista are available the customer will be
served immediately, otherwise the customer waits in a single First-In-Firsts-Out queue.
6. Run the simulation for 1 week i.e.168 hours with multiple replication runs. The system starts at
time zero minutes with no products present and the machine(s) idle.

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