Supply Chains: Planning the Transportation of Animals among Facilities

Pig supply chains conform differently depending on country; however, the industrial production of pig meat has led to an increasing specialization agents taking part in chain production. Nowadays, pigs are rarely produced one single farm, existence specialized farms devoted breeding, rearing, and fattening being more common since this organization provides sanitary advantages against disease outbreaks. Management strategies such as batch management sow add complexity management. Pigs have be transferred from facility they growing sent abattoir soon reach commercial weight. All these stages involve either independent farmers or integrated some operating with contracts cooperation agreements. This study presented challenge using a stochastic model for planning transportation animals among facilities over time. The optimal schedule transfers between farms, occupancy rate, trucks involved. integrality several variables was relaxed, further analysis performed view inspecting behavior achieving practical decision support. We demonstrated that we can achieve good enough results few minutes and, so, use is feasible.