INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN ENGINEERING,
MANAGEMENT & APPLIED SCIENCE (IJLTEMAS)
ISSN 2278-2540 | DOI: 10.51583/IJLTEMAS | Volume XIV, Issue XII, December 2025
2. The average number of customers in the system at any point in time in the scenario 1, 2, 3 and 4 are
14.81061, 2.50628, 1.99546 and 1.89741. i.e 15 customers, 3 customers, 2 customers and 2 customers
respectively.
3. The average queue length for the scenario 1, 2, 3 and 4 are 12.94104, 0.63671, 0.12589 and 0.02785. i.e
there will be 13 customers in the queue at first scenario, 1 customer at the second scenario while no
queues at the third and fourth scenario.
4. The average time spent in the system at scenario 1, 2, 3 and 4 are 0.34443x60 = 20.67 minutes,
0.05829x60 = 3.50 minutes, 0.04641x60 =2.78 minutes and 0.04413x60 = 2.64 minutes.
5. The expected time spent in the system by customer for the scenario 1, 2, 3 and 4 are 0.30095x60 = 18.06
minutes, 0.01481x60 = 53.31 seconds, 0.00293x60 = 10.54seconds and 0.00065x60 = 1.04 seconds
respectively.
6. The probabilities that there are no customers in the system are 0.03371, 0.13320, 0.15010 and 0.15339
respectively for the scenarios.
7. The utilization at scenario 1, 2, 3 and 4 was calculated to be 0.93478 = 93.48%, 0.62319 = 62.32%,
0.46739 = 46.74% and 0.15339 = 15.34% respectively; this showed that the Bank was below efficiency
at the first scenario and also showed that when there is increase in the server there will be increase in the
work efficiency and satisfying the customer’s needs.
8. The total system cost for the scenarios are N1681.06, N550.63, N599.55 and N689.74 respectively. That
indicates that, the optimal server for the Bank is 3.
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
Summary
The situation or conditions experienced in this bank during the period of study are similar to what operates in
other banks in the country. Excessive waste of time in the banking hall would have a negative impact on the
economy of the country in terms of the opportunity cost, which is the excess time that would have been used
elsewhere. Also from the M/M/C model, we see that there is a drop in waiting time as more servers are added.
There is also a drop in queue length, this would probably come with some degree of happiness and satisfaction
to the customers, but heavy cost would be incurred by the Bank if they have to employ more servers for the
operation unit of the bank. For this study, given the queue characteristics, the optimal number of servers which
would minimize the operational cost is five for this particular establishment with time saving and the reduction
of operational cost as the only factors considered.
Conclusion
From the findings, we conclude that the number of customers patronizing the bank was very higher at first and
second weeks; this is because of the planting season during which some customers need money to make certain
purchases and others come in to deposit money from sales made. Providing customers with timely access to the
needed services while minimizing cost to the establishment is one of the major goals of every organization.
Generally, an excess of demand over supply i.e. more customers than servers causes waiting. Since we obviously
have more customers than servers, the complete elimination of waiting line is impossible; we only try to
minimize the waiting time. With the results obtained from this study, we see that the use of three servers can
help to improve the operations of Benysta Microfinance Bank. Finally, we advice that a similar study should be
carried out for systems which may have different service times or service rates in order to ascertain if pooling
could also be beneficial to such systems as this work is limited only to the Operation Unit of Benysta
Microfinance Bank, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria.
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