Design supply chain for aggricultural products of VietNam a case study: Supply chain design for tangerine in Dong Thap province

Abstract

The tangerines fruit in Lai Vung, Dong Thap province of Vietnam is famous for its sweet taste, bright and beautiful color. But the supply chain for this fruit has problem for the past few years which result in price dropping and the farmers no longer want to plan this fruit anymore. This thesis will use the production analysis and forecasting, product design, supply chain network, facilities planning and other optimization tools such as CPLEX to design the new supply chain network for tangerines fruit in order to solve the problem that this fruit is now facing. The data of this thesis was collected from the Department of agricultural and rural development in Lai Vung, Dong Thap Province. The output of this thesis should be taken into consideration by the local authority to implement and improves the current situation of tangerines. Due to difficulties in collecting data, the marketing research and others issues that this thesis could not cover all up and needed more research in further study. Keywords: supply chain network design, facilities planning, forecasting, CPLEX, product design.