Every year, Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taiwan (MHW) decides the capacity of medical students to ensure each division includes enough doctors in the future. However, a recent report indicates the huge shortage of doctors in five demanding divisions which leads to serious problems in hospital management. Deciding the capacity of medical students in specific divisions is challenging for MHW.

a. Problem Description
Our client is a German drug manufacturer who owns and operates six stores in different parts of
Germany. Each store has a unique layout and some stores are open for fewer days than others. Moreover, customer footfall varies by location. Our client contracts staffing personnel on a daily basis from a staffing agency for all the stores, and each contracted staff is paid on per hour basis every day. The
management in our client’s organization has been tasked with an objective to bring down the staffing

Customers: Public health care system (government public welfare department)
The expense on those patients is more than 3 million dollars per year (half patients compared to Diabetes, but double expense).