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020 _a9780072424195
022 _a0071181156
022 _a9780071181150
050 _aHD9980.5
_b.F549
100 _aJames A Fitzsimmons;
110 _a Mona J Fitzsimmons
245 _aService management :
_b operations, strategy, and information technology
250 _a3rd ed
260 _aNew York :
_bMcGraw-Hill,
_c 2001.
300 _axxvi, 646 p. : ill. ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM
500 _aIncludes index
505 _aPart I Understanding services: the role of services and the economy; the nature of services; service quality; service strategy. Part II Designing the service enterprise: new service development and process design; the supporting facility; service facility location; the service encounter; work measurement; Internet service. Part III Managing service operations: forecasting demand for services; managing waiting lines; computer simulation; capacity planning; managing capacity and demand; managing facilitating goods; service and supply chain management; vehicle routing; managing service projects; linear programming applications in services. Part IV Toward world-class service; quality and productivity improvement; data envelopment analysis (DEA); growth and global expansion. Appendices: areas of a standard normal distribution; uniformly distributed random numbers [0,1]; values for Lq for the M/M/c queuing model; equations for selected queuing models.
700 _a Mona J Fitzsimmons
942 _cBK