TY - BOOK AU - Fitzsimmons,James A. AU - Sullivan,Robert S. TI - Service operations management SN - 0070212155 AV - HD9980.5 .F55 PY - 1982/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Service industries KW - Management KW - Operations research N1 - 1. The postindustrial Era 3 2. The Operations Function in Service Systems 15 3. Evaluation of Service Operations 33 4. Management Systems Simulation 58 5. Linear Programming Models in Services 81 6. Forecasting for Service Operations 115 7. Design of Service Delivery Systems 145 8. Service Facility Location 160 9. Design and Layout of Service Facilities 184 10. Work Design: The Design of Service Personnel Activity 211 11. The Queuing Phenomenon 235 12. Queuing Models and Capacity Planning 257 13. Utilization of Service Capacity 287 14. Service Vehicle Scheduling and Routing 312 15. Project Management: Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling Service Activities 337 16. Measuring and Controlling Service Quality 363 17. Management Information Systems: The Nervous System of service Organizations 387 18. Inventory Management 404 19. Service, Culture, and Society 425 Index 439 ER -