Grain export elevators: An economies of size analysis

Dagher, Magid A.; Robbins, Lynn W.

doi:10.1002/1520-6297(198722)3:2<169::aid-agr2720030204>3.0.co;2-v

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“…Table 2 illustrates the suggested capacities and corresponding estimated investment costs for collection facilities and biorefineries. Investment costs and capacities for collection facilities come from work by Dagher and Robbins (1987). Proposed capacities for biorefineries are based on discussions with experts and practitioners from the biofuel industry.…”

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An Excel-Based Decision Support System for Supply Chain Design and Management of Biofuels

Acharya

Jones

Ekşioğlu

et al. 2014

International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems

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This article presents a Decision Support System (DSS) to aid managers with supply chain (SC) design and logistics management of biomass-for-biofuel production. These tools play a very important role in efficiently managing biomass-for-biofuel SCs and have the potential to reduce the cost of biofuels. The proposed model coordinates the long-term decisions of designing a SC with the medium term decisions of logistics management. This system has the ability to (a) identify locations and capacities for biorefineries, given the availability of biomass and costs; (b) estimate the minimum cost of delivering biofuels, which include transportation, investment, and processing costs; and (c) perform sensitivity analyses with respect to a number of parameters. Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is used to create the interface of the DSS, and Excel's CPLEX Add-In is used to solve the mathematical models.

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