Supply Chain Network Design For Argicultural Product Order Allocation Problem: A Case Study Of Betrimex Company In Ben Tre Province

Abstract

With the tradition of agriculture, Vietnam has long been regarded the land of many special tropical fruits. However, the supply chains for such fruits are now facing with various problems which lead to considerable diminishing in the profit. In this thesis, taking the Coconut in Vietnam as a case study, the fruit is now facing with the problems of big fluctuate demand, collecting operation and ineffectively working logistics network. Many techniques such as: demand analysis and forecasting, products design, logistics network design, facilities planning, and so on will be used to solve the current difficulties. After the study, it is realized that the cooperative should take into consideration the result of proposed logistic network and order allocation for collecting and pre-processing. However, due to lacking of practical and limitation of time, the marketing research and some other aspects are not covered and need to be considered in further study.