TY - BOOK AU - Haksever,Cengiz AU - Render,Barry TI - Service management: an integrated approach to supply chain management and operations SN - 9780133088779 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - HD9980.5 .H345 2013 U1 - 658 HAK 2013 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Indianapolis PB - FT Press KW - Service industries KW - Management KW - Business logistics 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 -