Goat Meat Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement using a Simulation Technique
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A problem regarding goat meat is the lack of work integration among the supply chain members, resulting in a long time between farmers and slaughterhouses. Therefore, the researchers developed a discrete-event simulation (DES) in the meat goat supply chain operation. This study aims to (1) investigate the goat meat supply chain’s operational process and (2) improve the case study’s goat meat supply chain through the collaborative idea of simulation modeling. There are 23 farmers, 2 goat collectors, and 1 slaughterhouse in the case study on the supply chain for goat meat. This study improved the supply chain by facilitating information exchange among supply chain participants in order to enhance workflows, resulting in a lower processing time by 2,895.88 minutes or 5.15% of the total processing time (it is regarded as one cycle and includes the time from farming to the completion of the slaughtering operation), with lower cost by baht, or 2,407.87 baht or 3.16% of the total cost. Moreover, an experiment in improving the meat goat supply chain was conducted under the situation that could occur in the future, i.e., a 15% higher oil price. The results of the experiment conformed to the normal situation. To clarify, supply chain improvement using collaboration among its members could reduce the processing time and costs. This enables business owners to react to consumers’ product needs faster. Thus, among the meat goat supply chain members, collaboration should be applied in the supply chain for more efficiency and higher profits.
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