<b>Improvement of the supply chain for the sugar cane exportation process employing discrete events simulation techniques</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascitechnol.v35i4.17468

Autores

  • Maria Alejandra Guerrero Hernandez Universidade Nove de Julho / Programa de Pos-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção
  • André Felipe Henriques Librantz Universidade Nove de Julho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascitechnol.v35i4.17468

Palavras-chave:

simulation, sea port, logistics, transport

Resumo

Current paper proposes a reduction on all logistic costs involved in the sugar cane exportation process for an important medium-size cargo harbor in South America. The strategy consisted in studying and improving the efficiency of the logistics transportation flow of merchandise between the sugar cane mills and the cargo ports by employing discrete events simulation as a methodology and the ProModel software as a simulation platform. The simulated scenarios show 89% reductions in additional costs for inventory management; 50% of the resources used for loading the containers; and an 11.4% increment in the efficiency of operations. In addition, the new planning strategy was also evaluated with either a positive or negative variation of the demand. It should be underscored that the improved scenarios (out of those simulated) do not involve investments in facilities or in machinery purchasing.

 

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Biografia do Autor

Maria Alejandra Guerrero Hernandez, Universidade Nove de Julho / Programa de Pos-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção

Programa de Pos-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção

André Felipe Henriques Librantz, Universidade Nove de Julho

Industrial Engineering Post Graduation Program

Publicado

2013-05-23

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Guerrero Hernandez, M. A., & Henriques Librantz, A. F. (2013). <b>Improvement of the supply chain for the sugar cane exportation process employing discrete events simulation techniques</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascitechnol.v35i4.17468. Acta Scientiarum. Technology, 35(4), 637–643. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascitechnol.v35i4.17468

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Ciência da Computação

 

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