Service Management: An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Management and Operations

Service Management: An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Management and Operations

by Cengiz Haksever, Barry Render
Released June 2013
Publisher(s): Pearson
ISBN: 9780133088816

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Book description

Tie customer-driven strategies to service operations and process management, and sharpen your focus on creating customer value throughout your entire service organization! This comprehensive, multidisciplinary reference thoroughly covers today's most effective theories and methods for managing service organizations, drawing on innovative insights from economics, consumer behavior, marketing, strategy, and operations management. Leading experts Cengiz Haksever and Barry Render provide crucial insights into emerging service operation and supply chain topics, reinforcing key points with up-to-date case studies. Service Management contains a valuable chapter-length introduction to linear and goal programming and its services applications; and also addresses many other topics ignored by competitive texts, such as: 

  • Service SCM methods and approaches

  • Focusing on customers and their service purchase behavior

  • Service productivity

  • Managing public and private nonprofit service organizations

  • Vehicle routing and scheduling

  • Ethical challenges to SCM

    • Service Management will be an invaluable resource for senior and mid-level managers throughout any service organization, and for students and faculty in any graduate or upper-level undergraduate program in service management, service operations management, or operations management

    Table of contents

    1. About This eBook
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright Page
    4. Dedication Page
    5. Contents
    6. About the Authors
    7. Preface
    8. Part I: Understanding Services
      1. 1. The Important Role Services Play in an Economy
        1. 1.1. Introduction
        2. 1.2. What Are Services?
        3. 1.3. The Service Sector of the U.S. Economy
        4. 1.4. Theories Explaining the Growth of Services
        5. 1.5. Overview of the Book
        6. 1.6. Summary
        7. Endnotes
      2. 2. The Nature of Services and Service Encounters
        1. 2.1. Introduction
        2. 2.2. General Concept of a Productive System
        3. 2.3. Characteristics of Services
        4. 2.4. The Service Organization as a System
        5. 2.5. Service Encounters
        6. 2.6. Summary
        7. Endnotes
      3. 3. Customers: The Focus of Service Management
        1. 3.1. Introduction
        2. 3.2. Customers and Their Needs
        3. 3.3. Consumer Behavior and a Consumer Decision Model
        4. 3.4. Unique Aspects of Service Purchases
        5. 3.5. A Cultural Profile of American Customers
        6. 3.6. A Look into the Future
        7. 3.7. Summary
        8. Endnotes
      4. 4. Globalization of Services
        1. 4.1. Introduction
        2. 4.2. International Trade in Services
        3. 4.3. Why Service Companies Go Global
        4. 4.4. Global Environment for Service Businesses
        5. 4.5. Forms of Globalization
        6. 4.6. Summary
        7. Endnotes
      5. 5. Service Strategy and Competitiveness
        1. 5.1. Introduction
        2. 5.2. Value
        3. 5.3. Strategy
        4. 5.4. Formulating a Competitive Service Strategy
        5. 5.5. Summary
        6. Endnotes
      6. 6. Ethical Challenges in Service Management
        1. 6.1. Introduction
        2. 6.2. What Is Ethics?
        3. 6.3. Is There an Ethics Problem in Private and Public Sectors?
        4. 6.4. Challenges for Service Employees and Managers
        5. 6.5. Philosophical Theories of Ethics
        6. 6.6. Guidelines for Ethical Business Behavior
        7. 6.7. Summary
        8. Endnotes
    9. Part II: Building the Service System
      1. 7. Technology and Its Impact on Services and Their Management
        1. 7.1. Introduction
        2. 7.2. Process Technology and Information Technology
        3. 7.3. Technology in Services
        4. 7.4. Why Service Companies Invest in Technology
        5. 7.5. Technology as a Competitive Edge
        6. 7.6. Application Areas of Technology in Services
        7. 7.7. Information Systems
        8. 7.8. Enterprise Systems
        9. 7.9. Technology and the Future of Services
        10. 7.10. Summary
        11. Endnotes
      2. 8. Design and Development of Services and Service Delivery Systems
        1. 8.1. Introduction
        2. 8.2. Why the Design Is So Important
        3. 8.3. Designing Quality and Value
        4. 8.4. Principles of Service Design
        5. 8.5. Design Process
        6. 8.6. Summary
        7. Endnotes
      3. 9. Supply Chains in Services and Their Management
        1. 9.1. Introduction
        2. 9.2. Developments Leading to the Emergence of Supply Chain Management
        3. 9.3. What Is a Supply Chain?
        4. 9.4. Supply Chains in Services and Their Characteristics
        5. 9.5. Some Other Characteristics of Service Supply Chains
        6. 9.6. Challenges for Service Supply Chain Managers
        7. 9.7. Summary
        8. Endnotes
      4. 10. Locating Facilities and Designing Their Layout
        1. 10.1. Introduction
        2. 10.2. Location Selection
        3. 10.3. Quantitative Methods for Location Selection
        4. 10.4. Site Selection
        5. 10.5. Objectives of Facility Layout
        6. 10.6. Inputs to the Layout Problem
        7. 10.7. Layout Strategies
        8. 10.8. Office Layout
        9. 10.9. Retail Store Layout
        10. 10.10. Warehousing and Storage Layouts
        11. 10.11. Summary
        12. Endnotes
    10. Part III: Operating the Service System
      1. 11. Managing Demand and Supply in Services
        1. 11.1. Introduction
        2. 11.2. Why Matching Demand and Supply Is Such a Challenge in Services
        3. 11.3. Managing Demand
        4. 11.4. Managing Supply
        5. 11.5. Summary
        6. Endnotes
      2. 11. Supplement: Queuing and Simulation
        1. S11.1. Introduction
        2. S11.2. Basic Queuing System Configurations
        3. S11.3. Measuring the Queue’s Performance
        4. S11.4. A Single-Channel Queuing Model
        5. S11.5. A Multichannel Queuing Model
        6. S11.6. More Complex Queuing Models and the Use of Simulation
        7. S11.7. Simulation as a Scheduling Tool
        8. S11.8. The Role of Computers in Simulation
        9. S11.9. Summary
        10. Endnotes
      3. 12. Service Quality and Continuous Improvement
        1. 12.1. Introduction
        2. 12.2. Why Quality Is So Important
        3. 12.3. Quality Defined
        4. 12.4. Dimensions of Service Quality
        5. 12.5. The Gaps Model of Service Quality
        6. 12.6. Achieving Quality
        7. 12.7. Other Approaches to Achieving Service Quality
        8. 12.8. Reinforcing Quality Service
        9. 12.9. Summary
        10. Endnotes
      4. 12. Supplement: Tools and Techniques of Total Quality Management
        1. S12.1. Introduction
        2. S12.2. Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycle
        3. S12.3. Tools of TQM
        4. S12.4. Process Control Charts
        5. S12.5. Summary
      5. 13. Service Productivity and Measurement of Performance
        1. 13.1. Introduction
        2. 13.2. A Brief Background on Productivity
        3. 13.3. Why Productivity Is Important
        4. 13.4. Review of the Slowdown of U.S. Productivity Growth in the Recent Past
        5. 13.5. Raising Productivity
        6. 13.6. Service Productivity
        7. 13.7. Data Envelopment Analysis for Measurement of Service Efficiency
        8. 13.8. Summary
        9. Endnotes
      6. 14. Management of Public and Private Nonprofit Service Organizations
        1. 14.1. Introduction
        2. 14.2. Public and Private Nonprofit Organizations Defined
        3. 14.3. Significance of Public and Private Nonprofit Organizations
        4. 14.4. The Nature of Public Sector Organizations
        5. 14.5. The Nature of Private Nonprofit Organizations
        6. 14.6. Summary
        7. Endnotes
    11. Part IV: Tools and Techniques for Managing Service Operations
      1. 15. Forecasting Demand for Services
        1. 15.1. Introduction
        2. 15.2. The Demand Forecast as the Basis for Operations Planning
        3. 15.3. What Types of Service Outputs Are Forecast?
        4. 15.4. Factors That Affect the Choice of Forecasting Method
        5. 15.5. Time Series Forecasting Models
        6. 15.6. Causal (Associative) Forecasting; Regression Analysis
        7. 15.7. General Approaches to Forecasting
        8. 15.8. Summary
        9. Endnotes
      2. 16. Vehicle Routing and Scheduling
        1. 16.1. Introduction
        2. 16.2. Objectives of Routing and Scheduling Problems
        3. 16.3. Characteristics of Routing and Scheduling Problems
        4. 16.4. Routing Service Vehicles
        5. 16.5. Scheduling Service Vehicles
        6. 16.6. Other Routing and Scheduling Problems
        7. 16.7. Summary
        8. Endnotes
      3. 17. Project Management
        1. 17.1. Introduction
        2. 17.2. Project Planning
        3. 17.3. Project Scheduling
        4. 17.4. Project Controlling
        5. 17.5. Project Management Techniques; PERT and CPM
        6. 17.6. PERT/Cost
        7. 17.7. Other Service Applications of PERT
        8. 17.8. A Critique of PERT and CPM
        9. 17.9. Summary
        10. Endnotes
      4. 18. Linear and Goal Programming Applications for Services
        1. 18.1. Introduction
        2. 18.2. Overview of Linear Programming
        3. 18.3. Graphical Solution to a Linear Programming Problem
        4. 18.4. Computer Solution to a Linear Programming Problem
        5. 18.5. Formulating Linear Programming Models
        6. 18.6. Goal Programming
        7. 18.7. Summary
        8. Endnotes
      5. 19. Service Inventory Systems
        1. 19.1. Introduction
        2. 19.2. Characteristics of Service Inventories
        3. 19.3. The Input Material Decision Problem
        4. 19.4. Service Inventory Control Systems
        5. 19.5. Inventory Control Systems for Independent Demand Items
        6. 19.6. Inventory Planning
        7. 19.7. Requirements Planning for Dependent Demand
        8. 19.8. Summary
        9. Endnote
    12. Appendix A. Areas Under the Standard Normal Curve
    13. Index
    14. FT Press

    Product information

    • Title: Service Management: An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Management and Operations
    • Author(s): Cengiz Haksever, Barry Render
    • Release date: June 2013
    • Publisher(s): Pearson
    • ISBN: 9780133088816