Otimização da logística de suprimentos para uma empresa produtora de sementes

Abstract

This technical report has the objective of applying the Operational Research to Corn Supply’s logistics originating from various fields of production areas, called origins, directed to various processing units of the company, the destinations. These last ones lead to a selection and preparation of seeds for or planting and commercialized together with rural producers. For the development of this study, the following are considered: the forecast of the production volume of each production area, the processing capacity of the destinations and the road transport costs between each source-destination pair. The mathematical model is an adaptation of the Transport Problem - according to the Linear Programming literature. The problem has 25 origins and 6 destinations, whose objective is to minimize the total cost of the distribution network between origins and destinations and was solved with the use of the GAMS Modeling Language. The comparison between the optimal result obtained with the operations carried out in the last year would provide a 57% reduction in the cost of the supply logistics network, or that it demonstrates that the application of the optimization model of logistical operations brings significant financial benefits to the business group.