진료예약콜센터의 인력 배치 최적화 연구

The Optimal Staffing Problem at the Reservation Call Center in the Hospital

Call center staffing problems have often relied upon queueing models, which are traditionally used to compute average call waiting time. However, the relationship between the in-bound call volume and call abandon rate is not directly explained even with the complex queueing formula while that relationship is a major interest to the hospital due to profitability. In this paper we provide a novel approach for the call center staffing problem by incorporating the relationship between the in-bound call volume and call abandon rate with a nonlinear integer programming, rather than using the traditional queueing model. We perform numerical analyses with actual data obtained from a reservation call center in a hospital.