Part-time work retail

Consider a retail store that is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. There are three full-time employees requiring every second weekend off, a maximum work stretch of six days, and five days of work per week. The required number of people is given in Table 10 in half-hour intervals. All eight-hour shifts must have a lunch period of a half hour coffee breaks will not be scheduled but will be given during the day as time is available. The part-time shifts must be at least three hours long and can be up to five hours long. 

Cross-docking of merchandise occurs when the delivery of product to the distribution center is put directly into the trucks heading for the stores. For cross-docking to work well, suppliers and retailers must have fuUy integrated information systems. For example. Federal Express manages the complex task of getting all the component parts to Dell at the same time so that a particular DeU Computer order can be manufactured without Dell having to have inventories on hand. 

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