In article the organization of system of planning at the building enterprises of a railway transport in modern conditions is considered.

Tactical planning of resources in hospitals concerns elective patient admission planning and the intermediate term allocation of resource capacities. Its main objectives are to achieve equitable access for patients, to meet production targets/to serve the strategically agreed number of patients,...

Tactical crew capacity planning problem in railways involves finding the minimum number of crews in a region required to operate a predetermined set of train duties satisfying the strict day-off requirement for crew. For the single-region problem, we develop two solution approaches based on a...

We present a stochastic tactical planning model for the production and distribution of fresh agricultural products. The model incorporates the uncertainties encountered in the fresh produce industry when developing growing and distribution plans due to the variability of weather and demand. The...

The paper aims to highlight the strategic planning role and place in bank marketing, define the concepts of strategic planning and marketing planning and the tactical planning, marketing plan and marketing program. <p>In this context, the author emphasize the strategic marketing planning process...</p>

Utilizing the automatic assembly machines effectively is critical for electronics assembly operations. This paper develops an optimization model and methodology to assign product families to parallel placement machines in a high mix, low volume environment. Unlike strategic and operational...

In a challenging market, companies¡¯ ability to act faster is considered a basic advantage. From a value chain aspect, when a company cannot change its internal production processes and the external supply streams according to the demand requirements, this may lead to sales reduction or stock...

Better-aligned operational and strategic plans and a better balance of supply and demand bring tangible benefits to firms. However, functional departments in firms often operate without vertical and horizontal alignment. The outcomes are delays and amplification of the information flow,...

A challenge for car manufacturers is to adjust rapidly and efficiently the production capacities with a volatile market demand and despite distant suppliers. In this paper, we consider a sales and operations planning problem based on the actual situation of Renault, a French global automobile...

Asset utilization is a major mid-term lever to increase shareholder value creation. Since rough-cut planning of capacity (dis-)investments is performed at the long-term level, detailed timing of adjustments remains for the mid-term level. In combination with capacity control measures, capacity...