An Application of Zoning Designated Policy to Locate the Fresh Fruit Bunch Collectors in the Oil Palm Supply Chain: Southern Thailand Case Study

1st International Conference on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

工业技术（总论）;机械制造

Nootim, Phonnapha^1 ; Kongkaew, Wanatchapong^1 ; Sirivongpaisal, Nikorn^1 ; Auckaraaree, Kanya^2

Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand^1

Department of Agro-Industrial Management, Faculty of Agro-Industry, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand^2

关键词: Fresh fruits;    Microsoft excel;    Oil palm;    Set covering problem;    Set-covering model;    Southern Thailand;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/505/1/012121/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/505/1/012121

学科分类：工业工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This research aims to conduct the zoning designated policy to find the appropriate number of oil palm collector (called ramp), which is the main player to collect and distribute the fresh fruit bunch in upstream of oil palm supply chain. The set covering problem is applied together with the consideration on the distance between ramps. In this paper, the distance on 3 kilometres is implemented on set covering model and it is solved by the premium solver platform in Microsoft Excel. As a result, it showed that the number of appropriate ramps is at 110 ramps, instead of 452 ramps found in present.