Bottleneck and Resource Analysis on IT Help Desk with Process Mining

Authors

  • Muhammad Cekas Permana Telkom University, Bandung
  • Anindya Prameswari Telkom University, Bandung
  • Agriva Detta Ginting Telkom University, Bandung
  • M. Rifadh Asjad Telkom University, Bandung
  • Barajati Syakurnia Telkom University, Bandung
  • Rachmadita Andreswari Telkom University, Bandung

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25126/jitecs.202491581

Abstract

This study utilizes data from the help desk log of an Italian company to create a model of the company’s business processes. The primary objectives are to show the benefit of the implementation of process mining to identify bottleneck activites within the process and analyze the workload distribution among resources. The research reveals that the most common bottlenecks occur during the transition from ‘resolve tickets’ to ‘closed’ accounting for 99% of cases, and another activity from ‘assign seriousness’ towards ‘take in charge ticket’ experiences bottlenecks in 91% of cases. Furthermore, a decrease in the number of cases was discovered after October 2012. Prior to this period, the average number of cases per resource was high, leading to a high average number of active resources per day and average number of events per day. However, after October 2012, the average number of cases per resource decreased by approximately 74.6% to 47 cases per resource. The average number of active resources also decreased by 25% to 3 active resources per day. Additionally, the average number of events per resource decreased by 40% to 3 events per resource per day. Regarding the resource workload, the analysis reveals that ‘value 2’ has the highest workload, having worked on 4,235 events. This is followed by ‘value 5’ with 3,748 events, ‘value 1’ with 3,028 events, ‘value 9’ with 2,073 events, and ‘value 13’ with 1,420 events.

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Published

2024-04-03

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Permana, M. C., Prameswari, A., Ginting, A. D., Asjad, M. R., Syakurnia, B., & Andreswari , R. (2024). Bottleneck and Resource Analysis on IT Help Desk with Process Mining. Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science, 9(1), 77–85. https://doi.org/10.25126/jitecs.202491581

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Vol. 9 No. 1: April 2024

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