Health care is a rapidly evolving industry with new technologies constantly entering the marketplace. Supply for quality care has to continuously catch up to demand. The United States’ primary care system is at a crossroads, ...

Outsourcing logistics has established itself in the area of the LSP (Logistics Service Provider), which offers a range of services to its customers. In this line, transportation is characterized as one of the most important ...

The actual study aimed to investigate the Rural Extension services, provided for settled families in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, especially the services offered from 2009, when contracts were set up for Social and ...

In the past 10 years, a movement has developed within service research to learn from and with the poor to obtain better service from each other, their communities, corporations, governments, and non-governmental organizations. ...

This work presents an innovative approach to business design, known as Business Engineering, and its application to service offerings design in general and health services in particular. Such an approach is characterized ...

The implementation of Advanced Planning Systems (APS) software may offers to Supply Chain Management (SCM) planning and optimization functionalities to industrial processes. A complete assessment of APS implementation ...