Judul: Analisis Strategi Peningkatan Daya Saing Sayuran Organik
Abstrak: The high public awareness of healthy lifestyles these days, making the Indonesian people tend to eat healthy food like organic food. Organic vegetables is trusted to provide better benefits for the body than vegetables which pesticide used. Public awareness about health will increase the demand for organic vegetables. This phenomenon brings competition between producers of organic vegetables for market control. Analysis tool used is a Porter diamond models and five forces model of Porter to look at external factors and factors of competitiveness of organic vegetables. Another analysis tool is Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to determine best strategy. The highest of factor analysis are capital resources, natural resources and environmental resources, infrastructure and power supplier by score 3.60 while the lowest value is the influence of a replacement product by score 2,00. Highest priority that can be chosen as an alternative strategy is building a positive image in the industry with a score of 0,409.
Keyword: porter five forces., organic vegetables, diamond model, competitivenes, analytical hierarchy process (AHP)

Judul: Strategi Persiapan Pengembangan Rantai Pasok Sayuran Organik Bernilai Tambah Tinggi Berbasis Petani di Kecamatan Pangalengan, Kabupaten Bandung
Abstrak: Healthy lifesyle with the slogan “Back to Nature” has become a new trend of the society. Directorate of Processing and Marketing, Ministry of Agriculture in Indonesia has initiated the program "Go Organic 2010" to improve the quality of life and the natural environment of Indonesia and to encourage the development of organic farming and sustainable competitiveness. Supply Chain Management (SCM) has represented overall management of agricultural activities which involved of processing, distribution, marketing, until the desired product to consumer. Stages of study included: (1) Identify the characteristics of the vegetables, the supply chain actors, and descriptive analysis of the environmental conditions in Pangalengan; (2) Identify internal and external factors; (3) The formulation of the strategy with the matrix Strengths, Weakneses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT); (4) Selection of priority strategy. The data was collected through purposive sampling technique which involving 10 respondents and 3 experts. The data used was primary and secondary data by direct interviews, questionnaires and literature study. Selection of strategic alternatives conducted using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) with Expert Choice of AHP software. The result showed that the supply chain actors of vegetables in Pangalengan were seed suppliers, farmers, traders/collectors, the company, the seller/exporter, foreign markets, traditional market and retail/supermarket. Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) and External Factor Evaluation (EFE) analysis showed that the average total score of IFE and EFE were 2.260 and 2.790. The score represented that the ability of the farmer in utilized the strengths and the opportunities then in covered the weaknesses and the threats were on the average. The study showed that the safety of vegetables to consumer (score 0.336) was the main strength and the main weakness organic farming in Pangalengan was limited of financial (score 0.127). Futhermore, supporting of government was the major opportunity (score 0.127) and the major threat was uncertain of climate and weather which affected in production (score 0.144). Based on the formulation of strategic, the study obtained 7 (seven) strategy. The first and the second priority strategic related of the marketing, were expanding market/distribution to bussines partnerships (score 0.205) and researching of development in the organic vegetable‟s market (score 0.180). The third alternative strategic was supporting of government (score 0.157) which retaled to supervision strategy. Moreover, the fourth and the fifth alternatives related to strategy of financial, were monitoring and overseeing prices (0.156) then strengthening of financial aspects (score 0.114). The sixth and the seventh alternatives related to production management strategy, were planning a better farming (0.107) and improving the quality, quantity and continuity of production (score 0.081).
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Judul: Approximation of the Median of Poisson Distribution Using the Relation of Poisson-Gamma Distribution
Abstrak: A major drawback of median is that median cannot usually be defined in closed form, even in the cases where their distribution functions are known. This study gives an approximation of the closed form for the median of the Poisson distribution by using the relation of Poisson-Gamma distribution. The approximation uses elementary techniques based on the monotonicity of certain sequences involving tail probabilities of the Poisson distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. Furthermore, a closed form expression for the mean absolute deviation 􀜧|􀜰􀰒 􀵆 􀜯􀝁􀝀􁈺􀜰􀰒􁈻| is also studied. The median is relevant because of the fact that it minimizes the mean absolute deviation of a Poisson random variable (􀜰􀰒􁈻 by considering median as central tendency.
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