Service Science
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Beschreibung
A comprehensive treatment on the use of quantitative modeling for decision making and best practices in the service industries
Making up a significant part of the world economy, the service sector is a rapidly evolving field that is relied on to dictate the public's satisfaction and success in various areas of everyday life, from banking and communications to education and healthcare. Service Science provides managers and students of the service industries with the quantitative skills necessary to model key decisions and performance metrics associated with services, including the management of resources, distribution of goods and services to customers, and the analysis and design of queueing systems.
The book begins with a brief introduction to the service sector followed by an introduction to optimization and queueing modeling, providing the methodological background needed to analyze service systems. Subsequent chapters present?specific topics within service operations management, including:
* Location modeling and districting
* Resource allocation problems
* Short- and long-term workforce management
* Priority services, call center design, and customer scheduling
* Inventory modeling
* Vehicle routing
The author's own specialized software packages for location modeling, network optimization, and time-dependent queueing are utilized throughout the book, showing readers how to solve a variety of problems associated with service industries. These programs are freely available on the book's related web site along with detailed appendices and online spreadsheets that accompany the book's "How to Do It in Excel" sections, allowing readers to work hands-on with the presented techniques.
Extensively class-tested to ensure a comprehensive presentation, Service Science is an excellent book for industrial engineering and management courses on service operations at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. The book also serves as a reference for researchers in the fields of business, management science, operations research, engineering, and economics.
This book addresses the many important problems in service operations management, which can be analyzed using two core methodologies: optimization and queueing theory (including numerical simulation of queues).
After an introductory chapter on services, Chapter 2 provides a summary of optimization, and Chapter 3 discusses queueing theory. In addition to these two methodologically-based chapters, the book includes a lengthy review of probability (as an appendix).
Chapters 4 through 11 present specific topics within service operations management, including location modeling, assignment problems, short and long-term workforce management, applications of queueing theory (particularly to call center design), inventory models, vehicle routing, pricing, and auctions.
Chapter 12 provides a summary chapter that also outlines steps to utilize the disucssed concepts and methods in practive. The author's own SITATION software is utilized throughout the book in addition to a program that numerically solves time-dependent queueing problems. SITATION is a program that was originally included with the author's prior book, Network and Discrete Location: Models, Algorithms, and Applications. This software has been significantly updated over the years and has been rewritten from a DOS-based version to a version that operates under Windows.
A Powerpoint overview of SITATION as well as a user-guide are included on the book's related web site.
Chapter coverage includes: optimization; queueing theory; location models; assignment problems; short-term and long-term workforce scheduling; applications of queueing in services; inventory models; vehicle routing and services; pricing problems and combinatorial auctions for services; and an overview of probability.
Autor*in
Mark S. Daskin
Themen in »Service Science«
Betriebswirtschaft u. Operationsforschung Business & Management Industrial Engineering Industrial Engineering / Manufacturing Industrielle Verfahrenstechnik Management Science/Operational Research Mathematics Mathematik Optimierung Optimization Produktion i. d. Industriellen Verfahrenstechnik Wirtschaft u. Management