Designing the distribution network in a cassava supply chain in Thailand

Timaboot, Witchayut; Suthikarnnarunai, Nanthi

doi:10.33844/mbr.2017.60436

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“…Several studies have been conducted in multimodal transportation of cassava products in Thailand. Timaboot and Suthikarnnarunai [8], for example, presented a concept of designing the new distribution network of cassava supply chain in Thailand using rail as a major mode of transportation. Uabharadorn [9], on the other hand, discussed key areas of multimodal transport and logistics services, such as demand of freight transport, logistics costs, modal shift, effect of transport costs on trade, and the government policy and action plans towards the development of multimodal transport and logistics services and the areas of improvement.…”

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Feasibility Study of Multimodal Transportation of Cassava Products in Thailand: System Dynamics Modeling

Chinda

2022

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Thailand is one of the world’s top export countries, sharing 72% of the global shipment, mainly in the agricultural and industrial products. Being a major logistics hub in ASEAN, Thai government has initiated several projects to support the transportation of people and goods. Road transportation is a major mode of goods transportation in Thailand. However, it incurs the highest logistics cost compared with water and rail modes. The use of multimode transportation is, therefore, considered to lower the logistics cost and reduce the environmental problems. This study examines the feasibility of multimodal transportation of cassava products in the long-term utilizing the system dynamics modeling approach. Six saving elements, including 1) saving in labor cost, 2) saving in fuel cost, 3) saving in carbon dioxide tax, 4) saving in truck rental cost, 5) saving in reimbursement cost, and 6) saving in accident cost, and four cost elements, including 1) handling cost, 2) tariff cost, 3) product return cost, and 4) product damaged cost, are considered in the dynamics model. The simulation results reveal that at the initial years, the net cash flow is negative due to high investments in double track system. Once the project continues, the savings increase. It is found that the project is feasible when it is continued for 10 years at the internal rate of return of 13.69%. The sensitivity analysis results also show that the saving in truck rental cost and the product damaged cost are two key elements in the multimodal transportation, as they highly affect the internal rate of return of the project. The developed dynamics model of multimodal transportation of cassava products can be used as a guideline for transportation companies and government to plan for their multimodal transportation to reduce logistic costs and achieve benefits in the long term.

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Chinda

2022

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“…Research on applying goal planning is very diverse and present in many fields, but there are very few studies on the cassava industry proposed a set of environmental indicators used in cleaner production assessment and applied a mathematical planning model for pollution reduction for the manufacturing plant [43,44]. The study conducted by [45] provides a model to optimize transporting costs of cassava to processing facilities. In addition, the transport issue is also integrated in the studies of Takeshima and Winter-Nelson [44]; [43] calculated the transportation costs in the total purchasing cost for optimization.…”

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Application of Linear Programming for cassava starch production optimization in Vietnam within a Circular Economy framework toward Zero emission

Giau¹,

Thanh²,

Luu³

et al. 2022

Environmental Engineering Research

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Cassava starch production is a key industrial production of Tay Ninh province, Vietnam. However, this production chain has also caused many negative impacts on the environment. This study applied the principles of circular economy to analyze the waste streams via linear programming method for cassava starch circular production chain towards zero waste emission. The results show that the cassava starch indutry can achieve the goals of zero electricity, zero waste, and zero fossil energy by re-planning the production chain. The chain’s output products are 517.5 tons of bio-oil/year, 206.7 thousand tons of biochar/year, 190.0 thousand tons of dry pulp/year, 10 million m<sup>3</sup>/year of liquid fertilizer. In order to increase further the value of the chain in the circular economy, future research needs to study the feasibility of a solution to reuse wastewater to produce microalgae, as well as evaluate the effectiveness of these methods. The optimization method applied in this study can also be extended to similar agricultural chains properties such as rice processing, sugar cane, etc.

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“…However, the logistics cost of road transportation is higher than rail and ship modes. Moreover, Thailand confronts road transportation limitations including maximum acceptable weight, traffic congestion and high fuel prices [5]. Dealing with these problems, the multimodal connection from roads to container yards (CY) and ports is expected to decrease logistics cost, and increase various opportunities to trade with neighbouring countries [6].…”

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“…In general, block rubber has a low price and low value [5]. The most effective transportation mode for block rubber is the mode that can carry them in large volume [5] which is the characteristics of multimodal transportation. According to Tanachodrungsatis [10], multimodal transportation is suited with products that can be transported in a heavy bulk and products that have low value, the low selling price per unit, and not perishable.…”

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Key Factors Influencing Multimodal Transportation of Natural Block Rubber in Thailand

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Thailand is the world's largest natural rubbers exporter. The major type of natural rubbers exported is block rubber. Currently, the transportation of natural rubbers in Thailand depends mainly on truck mode because of the convenience and extensive network of roads. However, Thailand confronts road transportation limitations including maximum acceptable weight, traffic congestion and high fuel prices. Dealing with these problems, the multimodal connection from roads to container yards (CY) and ports is expected to decrease logistics cost, and increase various opportunities to trade with neighbouring countries. This paper, thus, aims at examining key factors influencing the use of multimodal transportation utilizing the exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The principal components analysis (PCA) method, together with the eigenvalue over 1, factor loading of 0.40, and varimax rotation method, extracted five key factors with a total of 20 associated attributes, which are the Multimodal Operation, Service Operation, Multimodal Service Provider, Market Consideration, and Road Constraints factors. The result also pinpoints the capacity of container yard (CY) or port, accessibility to container yard (CY) or port, documentation process, logistics cost, adequacy of a multimode service provider, and law enforcement on truck driving hours, as crucial attributes in planning for multimodal transportation. This paper can be used as a guideline for a feasibility study of multimodal transportation of natural block rubber in Thailand.

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Designing the distribution network in a cassava supply chain in Thailand

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Feasibility Study of Multimodal Transportation of Cassava Products in Thailand: System Dynamics Modeling

Feasibility Study of Multimodal Transportation of Cassava Products in Thailand: System Dynamics Modeling

Application of Linear Programming for cassava starch production optimization in Vietnam within a Circular Economy framework toward Zero emission

Key Factors Influencing Multimodal Transportation of Natural Block Rubber in Thailand

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