Title: Optimal planning of oil palm fruit harvest

Authors: Tatiana Gonzalez-Negrete; Rafael Guillermo García-Cáceres; John Wilmer Escobar-Velásquez

Addresses: Department of Industrial Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia ' School of Industrial Engineering, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia – UPTC, Sogamoso, Colombia ' Department of Accounting and Finance, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Abstract: The present paper deals with operational planning in the upstream link of the oil palm supply chain. A MIP mathematical model is proposed in order to optimise fruit lifting and transportation activities within plantations, seeking to improve the coordination of human resources and available equipment. The proposed stochastic bi-objective model was optimally solved under the ε-constraint solution procedure, with a good performance in terms of computation time.

Keywords: operative planning of the supply chain; mathematical programming; oil palm; inbound logistics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2024.143060

International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2024 Vol.49 No.3, pp.311 - 340

Received: 12 Oct 2021
Accepted: 09 Apr 2022
Published online: 03 Dec 2024 *

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