Field workforce scheduling

Authors:
D. Lesaint;C. Voudouris;N. Azarmi;I. Alletson;B. Laithwaite
Affiliations:
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Venue:
BT Technology Journal
Year:
2003

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Abstract

BT employs thousands of field engineers across the UK to maintain networks, repair faults and provide service to customers. To allocate work more efficiently, BT launched Work Manager in the early 1990s — an information system automating work management and field communications, and now marketed as a.p.solve's TASKFORCE. In 1996, BT Exact's Intelligent Systems Lab enhanced Work Manager with a Dynamic Scheduler (DS) combining heuristic search and constraint-based reasoning. Since its national roll-out in 1997, DS has consistently reduced operational costs while preserving high quality of service. This paper gives an overview of BT's workforce scheduling problem, the DS system, and its operational and commercial impact.