Research Article

Optimal Guaranteed Service Time and Service Level Decision with Time and Service Level Sensitive Demand

Table 2

Comparison of the profits.

Proposed model
Total profit

2.9310.98655.693292.28

Ray and Jewkes’ [10] model
Total profitProfit gap %

0.501.17744.411188.2259104.056355.3%
0.551.26445.618199.862792.4194646.2%
0.601.35446.823211.462780.8194438.2%
0.651.44948.025223.009969.2723131.1%
0.701.55249.224234.482457.7997124.6%
0.751.66550.417245.848946.4332518.9%
0.801.79451.603257.058835.2233813.7%
0.851.94852.776268.021224.260979.1%
0.902.14653.927278.540313.741824.9%
0.952.44855.026288.02254.2596251.5%

Average %24.4%