warranty as a kind of service contract today plays a role key in business and legal transactions. in this paper, we present a manufacturer, an agent and a customer's model under different service contracts suggestions. the manufacturer's profit is maximized by determining sale price, warranty period and warranty price. in addition we obtain optimal maintenance cost or repair cost for ...

In any business to customer (B2C) or business to business (B2B) type of environment, a customer is the ultimate goal and objective. More often than not, it can be quite an issue. This perhaps due to the fact that organizations sometimes do not really understand of what actually goes on in a customer’s mind. As such, this predicament has provided as a challenge task to most business conglomerate...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which brand experience affects brand credit, brand attitude, and customer-based brand equity. by five-point likert scale, the data will be collected through questionnaire filled by 385 students in islamic azad university-firouzkouh branch using samsung, apple, nokia, sony, sony ericsson, and lg cell phones. lisrel is used to test researc...

This paper considers a customer order scheduling (COS) problem in which each customer requests a variety of products processed in a two-machine flow shop. A sequence-independent attached setup for each machine is needed before processing each product lot. We assume that customer orders are satisfied by the job-based processing approach in which the same products from different customer orders f...

  The unprecedented growth of competition in the banking technology has raised the importance of retaining current customers and acquires new customers so that is important analyzing Customer behavior, which is base on bank databases. Analyzing bank databases for analyzing customer behavior is difficult since bank databases are multi-dimensional, comprised of monthly account records and daily t...

studying about the customer segmentation and begetting customer ranking plan diverts more attention in recent years. in this regard, this study tries on providing a methodology for segmenting customers based on their value driver parameters which extracted from transaction data and then ranks customers with regard to their customer lifetime value (clv) score. discovering hidden pattern between ...

The main objective of the paper is to investigate customer treatment, financial efficiency and supporting customer services with modern banking technology in financial institutions. The customer orientation and business performance of financial institutions targets customer services to maintain long term mutual relationships. The findings of the study has direct practical relevance for the bank...