Short-term shift setting and manpower supplying under stochastic demands for air cargo terminals

Short-term shift setting and manpower supplying under stochastic demands for air cargo terminals

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Article ID: iaor20091273
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 35
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 425
End Page Number: 444
Publication Date: May 2008
Journal: Transportation
Authors: , ,
Keywords: personnel & manpower planning, programming: integer
Abstract:

A good air cargo terminal manpower supply plan helps terminals deal efficiently with their cargos and reduces their operating costs. To design a good air cargo terminal manpower supply plan, a terminal has to consider not only its operating costs, but also the uncertainty of the manpower demand in actual operations. However, most air cargo terminals in Taiwan currently depend on staff experience with a fixed demand when establishing the manpower supply plan, which is neither effective nor efficient. We have developed two stochastic-demand manpower supply plan models for air cargo terminals that can resolve stochastic demands occurring in practice. The objectives of both models are to minimize the total man-hour cost, subject to the related operating constraints. The models are formulated as integer/mixed integer linear programs.

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