Queuing Theory Articles

About two weeks ago, we went on a family vacation – on a Carnival Cruise. En route to the Long Beach and San Pedro port, we stopped at Las Vegas for the night. If you ignore the gambling, the permissiveness, and the shear excess of the city, it is really an engineering marvel. That got [...]

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Where’s my legal stuff? Yes, even in the industry of law, we ask the fundamental question of “where’s my stuff?” Similar to the supply chain and service chain of iPhone Supply Chain, Order Pipeline of Events, the Pizza Supply Chain, Ecommerce Supply Chain, the Domino’s Pizza Supply Chain, the BMW Supply Chain,  the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, the iPhone 4S and Fedex Tracker, [...]

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I’m fascinated by supply chains of all types. I’ve written before on the iPhone Supply Chain, Order Pipeline of Events, the Pizza Supply Chain, Ecommerce Supply Chain, the Domino’s Pizza Supply Chain, the BMW Supply Chain,  the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, and even the Supply Chain of the White Truffle Mushroom. Today, I want to highlight how a [...]

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Applying Queueing Theory in a restaurant operation might be helpful to those who proactively wish to manage revenue. After all, the drivers of revenue in a restaurant is how many guests a restaurant can serve in a given shift, as well as average order value. So how does one apply Queueing Theory in a restaurant [...]

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Queueing Theory, if used appropriately, can describe the a system and its dynamics accurately in order to pave the way for eventually improving the system. Let me illustrate. Let’s assume the following scenario. Widgets are made to order in an assembly line that consists of three steps, each performed by a single worker. So, there [...]

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