Integrating Service Strategy in the Manufacturing Company

Résumé du livre

This text aims to provide industrial companies with directions for turning after-sales service to competitive advantage. The text focuses on the increasing realization of the importance of after-sales service which comes with a need to include service within overall corporate strategy. Customer-supplier relationships as well as performance criteria should be defined, and strategies agreed, if full competitive advantage is to be gained. The author introduces the service mix as a competitive tool of very real practical use.