This paper presents a production planning model for managing the pig herd production system operating as a Pig Supply Chain (PSC). The model is formulated as a multiperiod …
This paper focuses on vertically integrated pig companies based on multi-farm systems. The aim is to address tactical decisions to plan production, increase flexibility, improve …
AL Solano‐Blanco, JE González… - International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the poultry industry, the meat market requires a careful coordination of the broiler chicken supply chain comprising breeders, hatcheries, farms, slaughterhouses, wholesale, and retail …
LM Plà-Aragonès - EURO Working Group on DSS: A Tour of the DSS …, 2021 - Springer
The evolution of the pig industry over time has shown a concentration of production to maintain profit levels and the rise of new organisational structures like pig supply chains …
Pig farmers depend on the income they get from the delivering of fattened pigs to the abattoir. Pigs are fattened in batches and all-in-all-out management strategy is common in …
This article aims to resolve a particular production planning and workforce assignment problem. Many production lines may have different production capacities while producing …
A Kambli, RG McGarvey - Information Processing in Agriculture, 2021 - Elsevier
For small farmers wishing to sell their products under the “local agriculture” marketing concept, connecting with consumers can be challenging. One approach to mitigating this …
Modern pig production in a vertically integrated company is a highly specialised and industrialised activity, requiring increasingly complex and critical decision-making. The …
This paper presents a bi-objective model for optimizing pig deliveries to the abattoir accounting for total revenue and CO 2 emissions. Fattening farms house the most important …