Joint capacity allocation and job assignment under uncertainty
In this paper, we consider the multi-period joint capacity allocation and job assignment problem. The goal of the planner is to simultaneously decide on allocating resources across the J different supply nodes, and assigning of jobs of I different demand origins to these J nodes, so as to maximize t...
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sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-80212022-06-15T06:30:50Z Joint capacity allocation and job assignment under uncertainty WANG, Peng LIM, Yun Fong LOKE, Gar Goei In this paper, we consider the multi-period joint capacity allocation and job assignment problem. The goal of the planner is to simultaneously decide on allocating resources across the J different supply nodes, and assigning of jobs of I different demand origins to these J nodes, so as to maximize the reward for matching or minimize the cost of failure to match. We furthermore consider three features: (i) supply is replenishable after random time, (ii) demand is random; and (iii) demand can wait and need not be fully fulfilled immediately. Such problems emerge in many service management settings such as ride-sharing fleet re-positioning, and patient management in healthcare. We introduce a distributive decision rule, which decides on the proportion of jobs to be served by each of the supply nodes. We borrow ideas from the pipeline queues framework Bandi and Loke (2018), which cannot be directly applied to our setting, and hence requires the development of new reformulation techniques. Our model has a convex reformulation and can be solved by a sequence of linear programs, in practice. We test our model against state-of-the-art models that focus solely on the capacity allocation or job assignment decisions, in the setting of nurse scheduling and patient overflow respectively. Our model performs strongly against the benchmarks, recording 1-15% reductions in costs, and shorter computation times. Our model opens the door to consider new problems in platform operations and online services where the planner is able to influence the supply of services or resources partially. 2022-04-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7022 info:doi/10.2139/ssrn.4054332 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8021/viewcontent/SSRN_id4054332.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Programming Convex optimization Robust Optimization Resource allocation Service Management Platform Operations Operations and Supply Chain Management |
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In this paper, we consider the multi-period joint capacity allocation and job assignment problem. The goal of the planner is to simultaneously decide on allocating resources across the J different supply nodes, and assigning of jobs of I different demand origins to these J nodes, so as to maximize the reward for matching or minimize the cost of failure to match. We furthermore consider three features: (i) supply is replenishable after random time, (ii) demand is random; and (iii) demand can wait and need not be fully fulfilled immediately. Such problems emerge in many service management settings such as ride-sharing fleet re-positioning, and patient management in healthcare. We introduce a distributive decision rule, which decides on the proportion of jobs to be served by each of the supply nodes. We borrow ideas from the pipeline queues framework Bandi and Loke (2018), which cannot be directly applied to our setting, and hence requires the development of new reformulation techniques. Our model has a convex reformulation and can be solved by a sequence of linear programs, in practice. We test our model against state-of-the-art models that focus solely on the capacity allocation or job assignment decisions, in the setting of nurse scheduling and patient overflow respectively. Our model performs strongly against the benchmarks, recording 1-15% reductions in costs, and shorter computation times. Our model opens the door to consider new problems in platform operations and online services where the planner is able to influence the supply of services or resources partially. |
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