TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haksever,Cengiz
AU  - Render,Barry
TI  - Service management: an integrated approach to supply chain management and operations 
SN  - 0133088774 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - HD9980.5 .H345 2013
U1  - 658 23
KW  - Business logistics
KW  - Service industries
KW  - Management
KW  - Print books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface -- Understanding services -- The important role services play in an economy -- The nature of services and service encounters -- Customers: the focus of service management -- Globalization of services -- Service strategy and competitiveness -- Ethical challenges in service management -- Building the service system -- Technology and its impact on services and their management -- Design and development of services and service delivery systems -- Supply chains in services and their management -- Locating facilities and designing their layout -- Operating the service system -- Managing demand and supply in services -- Supplement queuing and simulation -- Service quality and continuous improvement -- Supplement tools and techniques of total quality management -- Service productivity and measurement of performance -- Management of public and private nonprofit service organizations -- Tools and techniques for managing service operations -- Forecasting demand for services -- Vehicle routing and scheduling -- Project management -- Linear and goal programming applications for services -- Service inventory systems -- Appendix areas under the standard normal curve
ER  -