Strategic Planning

The integration of Lithuania into the European Union requires serious preparation, determining possible changes in agrarian sector and rural development and their consequences, ensuring the necessary information supply to finding and substantiation of rational strategic solutions. The paper analyzes trends of systematic analysis of the agrarian sector of the region, tools for the search of solutions, reveals the possibilities of modelling methods and information technologies application in determining the sustainable development strategy. The suggested methodic of integrated modelling of agricultural production processes in regional and farm level is introduced. The scheme of agrarian production system and some functional dependencies are presented. The problems that are expected to be solved in future are formulated.

This work concerns the strategic planning of a freight railway terminal where the transfer of cargo units between road and rail is supposed to be automatic and real- ized horizontally. More specifically, the considered termi nal is an innovative platform where containers or swap bodies are loaded/unloaded on/from the train horizontally by means of shuttles which move on a track parallel to the train one. The main objective of the paper is the optimal definition of the termin al layout, in terms of physical structural elements and number of handling resources, in order to minimize the overall costs of cargo handling systems and taking into account a maximum stopping time limit for trains at the terminal.

This work concerns the strategic planning of a freight railway terminal where the transfer of cargo units between road and rail is supposed to be automatic and real- ized horizontally. More specifically, the considered termi nal is an innovative platform where containers or swap bodies are loaded/unloaded on/from the train horizontally by means of shuttles which move on a track

In both the scientific and the professional communities, the need to integrate transport and land use policies to achieve more sustainable mobility patterns is widely recognized. Three challenges to attaining integrated strategies are identified. The first challenge is to find a common language and concepts that stimulate communication between disciplines. The second challenge is to create more explicit links between

It is difficult to prove a direct causal link between the spatial patterns of economic activities and the quality of the transport system. But it seems obvious that the transport system creates conditions, which enable economic activities to interact with each other. The concept of potential accessibility – or what and how can be reached from a given point in

... used to redirect institutions. Part 3, "Reorganizing Management Support for Planning," includes seven essays on various management and analytic functions that can help reshape institutions. Part 4, "Renewing Institutions and ...

During the past 10 years, financial pressures on health service providers have led toa quest for more efficient service delivery and many consequential changes to theorganisation and utilisation of staff. This study investigated the organisationalresponses to such pressures by four major South Australian hospitals and the level ofinvolvement of hospital human resource staff in the staffing issues associated withstrategic planning. With one exception, there was little contribution from qualifiedhuman resource professionals to staffing decisions involving medical and nursingpersonnel and little value was placed on their potential input by other professionalgroups. If, as suggested by writers on strategic human resource management, humanresource practice is moving toward a more strategic approach, then there is a largecredibility gap for human resource staff to overcome within the South Australianhealth service.

The Emergency Department (ED) of a modern hospital is a highly complex system that gives rise to numerous managerial challenges. It spans the full spectrum of operational, clinical, and financial perspectives, over varying horizons: operational—a few hours or days ahead; tactical—weeks or a few months ahead; and strategic, which involves planning on monthly and yearly scales. Simulation offers a natural

As of 2004 intensive preparatory activities for the accession of the Republic of Croatia into the European Union have started. Significant changes have been taking place in legislation, institutional and administrative respect. The so called “silent reform“ is changing the appearance and the way of work of state administration. Institutions acquire the rules and way of work of the European

Semiconductor manufacturing requires many process steps performed by highly unreliable equipment. Such unreliability causes the means and variances of its cycle times to be generally larger than those of other industries. In addition, it makes the yields uncertain. While making the order quotation and calculating production plan, the safety stock must be used to guard against the uncertainty of the manufacturing processes to increase the on-time-delivery ratio and to provide better customer services. The randomness of cycle times and yields are the two major sources of the output uncertainty. Formerly, Hung [1991] proposed a method capable of obtaining the output lot distribution at a particular time on the planning horizon. The distribution could be obtained by using the production rate and the cycle time distribution which are readily available from the manufacturing database. However, the method does not adequately consider the yield uncertainty. While extending that method, this paper employs a simple variance calculation formula to incorporate the yield uncertainty when computing the variance of total good die output. After calculating this variance for a particular product at a particular time, the necessary safety stock for that die type at that time can be obtained