A decision support system for cost determination in grain storage facility operations

Engenharia Agrícola

Domingos S. M. Valente¹  Daniel M. De Queiroz¹  Paulo C. Corrêa¹  Luis C. Da Silva¹  Sônia M. L. R. Do Vale¹ 

[1] ,UFV DEA Viçosa MG

关键词: costs;    modeling;    software;    custos;    modelagem;    programa computacional;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-69162011000400012

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Many research works have being carried out on analyzing grain storage facility costs; however a few of them had taken into account the analysis of factors associated to all pre-processing and storage steps. The objective of this work was to develop a decision support system for determining the grain storage facility costs and utilization fees in grain storage facilities. The data of a CONAB storage facility located in Ponta Grossa - PR, Brazil, was used as input of the system developed to analyze its specific characteristics, such as amount of product received and stored throughout the year, hourly capacity of drying, cleaning, and receiving, and dispatch. By applying the decision support system, it was observed that the reception and expedition costs were exponentially reduced as the turnover rate of the storage increased. The cleaning and drying costs increased linearly with grain initial moisture. The storage cost increased exponentially as the occupancy rate of the storage facility decreased.

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