Linear programming model for production costminimization at a rice crop products manufacturer

Companies in general must establish processes that generate profitabil-ity at lower costs. Manufacturing of rice crop protection products requires majorinvestments and resource planning, including infrastructure, raw materials, tech-nology, human resources, tests and trials, among others, which represents a majorchallenge. This paper proposes a methodology that aims to minimize productioncosts taking different factors into consideration. The first section identifies anddescribes the variables required for modeling. In the second section a linear pro-gramming model is formulated to determine the optimal function in terms of costreduction. Lastly, the model was applied at a real company, producing satisfactoryresults in terms of an improved production plan and an 11% cost reduction, whileenabling viewing the variables with greatest impact, such as storage and shift pro-gramming, with cost reductions of 68% and 44%, respectively. The purpose is toassist companies in this industry in applying mathematical programming modelsto solve problems and enable better resource planning to improve profitability

• Autores: Coronado-Hernández, Jairo R.; Olarte Jiménez, Leonardo J; Herrera Fontalvo, Zulmeira; Cómbita Niño, Johana
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2021
• Institución: Corporación Universidad de la Costa
• Repositorio: REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/9230
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/11323/9230; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86702-7_29; https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
• Palabra clave: Lineal programming; Rice crop; Production; Cost reduction; Production planning
• Rights: embargoedAccess
• License: © 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG