• DocumentCode
    3272687
  • Title

    Application of postponement concept into service process improvement

  • Author

    Chen, Jue ; Tang, Daijian

  • Author_Institution
    Contemporary Bus. & Trade Res. Center, Zhejiang Gongshang Univ., Hangzhou, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    28-30 June 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    The paper applied the postponement approach into service process reengineering by conducting a case study in a restaurant. It justified the effectiveness of postponement method for service BPR in dealing with the feature of customer contact in service process. And it also identified the role of modularization in postponement for service BPR project and the way modularization is applied. The paper then summarized the factors that affected the postponement point and revealed how they put influences on the postponement process. Finally future research direction was proposed.
  • Keywords
    customer services; customer contact; customer service process; postponement approach; postponement concept; service process reengineering; Business process re-engineering; Cities and towns; Costs; Delay; Educational institutions; History; Logistics; Manufacturing industries; Supply chains; Velocity measurement; BPR; Modularization; Postponement; system reengineering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 2010 7th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6485-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSSSM.2010.5530157
  • Filename
    5530157