SLIDE 1 By Sara Verónica Rodríguez Sánchez
University Autonomous of Nuevo Leon, Mexico
San Francisco, CA, November 4th, 2014
A MILP model for planning at operative level in a meat packing plant
3RD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN
Víctor Albornoz, Matías Gripe
University Federico Santa María, Chile
SLIDE 2 OUTLINE
- Introduction about pork production
- The pork supply chain structure
- Planning production in a meat packing plant
- Challenges and Opportunities
- Conclusions
SLIDE 3 IS MEAT PRODUCTION AN ISSUE?
In 2012, around 304 million tonnes of meat were produced worldwide. For 2014, FAO forecasts an increase to 311.8 million tonnes.
Year Population (Billions)
EXPECTATIONS OF WORLD POPULATION GROWTH ANUAL MEAT CONSUMPTION (PER CAPITA)
Kg Per capita USA Brazil China Word Developing countries Year
Nowadays we are approximate 7 thousand of millions of people
Source FAOSTAT
SLIDE 4 WHAT WE NEED?
Mor More agricu ricultur ltural al lan land? d?
But the agricultural land is being devoted to build houses.
Bio-energy PR PRODU ODUCTIVITY CTIVITY
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TECHNOLOGY
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations had point out TECHNOLOGY is the cornerstone to increase productivity.
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TECHNOLOGY
Here is where OR Researchers could play an important role
By developing Decision Support Systems
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TECHNOLOGY
My job is to provide tools to help you to get more money for your company with the resourses you already have.
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TECHNOLOGY
and moreover how to change your assets to be more productive
SLIDE 9 PORK INDUSTRY EVOLUTION
FAMILIAR INDUSTRIAL
- Pork is the most widely produced meat worldwide.
- In many countries the number of pig farms is being reduced, while the herd size
- f the remaining ones is increasing.
SLIDE 10 CHANGES IN THE MANAGEMENT
2 to 5 animals per week 100 to 10000 animals per day Before Now
Size of Operations Decision Making is more complex
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- Habits and practices are changing.
CONSUMER EVOLUTION
EU REGULATIONS
- Animal welfare.
- Safety
- Traceability
- Sustainable
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ADOPTION OF CAPITAL INTENSIVE SYSTEMS
Climate control Automatic feeding systems Animal identification devices PDA Software
Pig production has been evolving towards a progressive concentration in larger and more specialized and efficient production units
SLIDE 13 PORK SUPPLY CHAIN
The competition today is more between supply chains than individual firms.
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THE PSC MANAGEMENT
The chain manager now must make decisions on pig production agents considering the integration and coordination of the whole supply chain at different time horizons (Stadler, 2005).
SLIDE 15 PORK PRODUCTION IN A MP PLANT
- Kjærsgaard, N., 2008. Optimization of the Raw Material Use at Danish Slaughterhouses. Technical University of
- Denmark. PhD Thesis.
FARMS SLAUGHTER AREA PACKING AREA
Lairage area Equalization room Processing Lines
A meat packing plant is the facility where the processing and packing
SLIDE 16 DIFERENT PORK PRODUCTS
- Multiproduct.
- Process planning for product disassembly.
SLIDE 17 DIFERRENT CUTTING PATTERNS
- $ reward
- $ cost
- Set of products
SLIDE 18 PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
Yield kg Cutting Patterns Demand kg The mayor difficulty is to balance the benefits of selling products from one part of the carcass when there are no demand from other parts or the carcass Carcass Demand
SLIDE 19 MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION
- OBJECTIVE FUNCTION is oriented to maximize the net profit.
- The net profit is obtained through the difference between the incomes
from selling the products yielded by the cutting patterns, minus the
- perational costs incurred. These operational costs involve inventory,
freezing costs, unsatisfied- demand penalties and labor costs to perform the cutting-patterns.
SLIDE 20 MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION
CONSTRAINTS
- Bounds for carcasses to be processed. The number of carcasses to
process in each period needs to be bounded (upper and lower limits), given by the animal availability from suppliers according to different types of carcasses.
SLIDE 21 MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION
CONSTRAINTS
- Cutting patterns balance. Carcasses are partitioned into sections and for
each section a different cutting pattern can be applied. This constraint ensures a balance between cutting patterns and the number
- f carcasses processed. Equality is forced because the infeasibility to let
unprocessed raw material, due to perishability issues.
SLIDE 22 MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION
CONSTRAINTS
- Cutting pattern yield. Different cutting patterns can be applied on the
carcass to make different products. A cutting pattern is therefore defined by a combination of a set of products and their respective yields. The following constraint calculates the total amount of product i, retrieved from all the cutting patterns applied in each period.
SLIDE 23 MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION
CONSTRAINTS It is recognized that the pork industry works with perishable products subject to spoilage. In order to extend the life of the product, it undergoes to a freezing process. Thereby, a product can be sold in two presentations, fresh and frozen. A product is considered fresh if it is sold within 4 days after
- elaboration. On the other hand, frozen products can be kept this way for
almost 2 years. However, the profit of selling frozen products decays considerably.
- Fresh and frozen balance. This constraint determines the amount of
product to be frozen and the ones to keep fresh to be sold in the next periods.
SLIDE 24 MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION
CONSTRAINTS
- Fresh product to be sold. As mentioned, fresh products are not allowed
to be kept for more than 4 days. Constraint 7 calculates the total amount of fresh products that can be sold in a period t, but were produced in previous periods.
- Frozen product to be sold. Fresh products need to stay at least 2 days
in the freezing tunnel, to be considered frozen. The following constraint balance the inventory of frozen products at each period.
SLIDE 25 MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION
CONSTRAINTS
- Demand of frozen products. Ensures that the requested level of each
frozen product is addressed, allowing the existence of unsatisfied-demand in the case the raw materials are insufficient.
- Demand of fresh products. Ensures that the requested level of each
fresh product is addressed, allowing the existence of unsatisfied-demand in the case the raw materials are insufficient.
SLIDE 26 MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION
CONSTRAINTS
- Labor capacity.
- Wharehouse capacity for fresh products.
- Wharehouse capacity for frozen products.
- Freezing tunnel capacity.
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CASE OF STUDY
We are working with data from different companies
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SUCCESS CASE
SLIDE 29 OUTPUT
- Moreover. The model gives the ability to ask ‘what if? questions such as
- What is the effect on profit as further cutting patterns and extra products
become available?
SLIDE 30 OPTIMAL MARKETING OF PIGS
- The fattened pig ready for slaughtering is the output from several productive
and reproductive biological processes .
Fattening farm
SLIDE 31 OPTIMAL MARKETING OF PIGS
- The fattening is the last biological process before the pig is marketed as a live
animal, and sent it to the slaughterhouse to be processed as a meat.
Fattening farm
SLIDE 32 OPTIMAL MARKETING OF PIGS
- As pigs reach marketable weights near the end of the finishing phase, a pork
producer must devise a marketing strategy to determine when to sell pigs, which and how many pigs to sell.
Sl Slaughterhouse se
Rearing farms Fattening farm
11 a a 17 17 wee eeks ks Marketable le weigh ight 15 15 to to 35 kg kg
SLIDE 33 OPTIMAL MARKETING OF PIGS
- The major complexity faced in this problem is in managing the biological
variance; owing to it, pigs reach optimal conditions for slaughter at different times of the fattening period.
Sl Slaughterhouse se
Rearing farms Fattening farm
11 a a 17 17 wee eeks ks Marketable le weigh ight 15 15 to to 35 kg kg
SLIDE 34 CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
FATTENING FARM 6 FATTENING FARM 1 FATTENING FARM 2 FATTENING FARM 3 MEAT PACKING PLANT FATTENING FARM 4 FATTENING FARM 5
SLAUGHTERING/PROCESSING
Figure 1. The structure of the pork supply chain considering two levels, fattening farms and the meat packing plant.
SLIDE 35 CONCLUSIONS
- Adoption of OR methods in the PSC progress slowly like in other industries of
the primary sector. It may benefit of the development of user-friendly DSSs in a narrow collaboration with the industry.
- Traditionally, judgement based on experience had been the basis for the
production planning. However recent changes have driven to a more complex business planning enviroment, and thereby made the development of more formal planning methos necessary.
- The new competitive strategy in pig farming is no longer based on individual
farms units, but rather integrated into a supply chain.
tools has the potential to increase profits through a better undertanding and new insights for their marketing strategy and production
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REFERENCES
Rodríguez, S.V., Plà, L.M., Faulin, J., New Oportunities in Operations Research to improve pork supply chain efficiency, 2014. Annals of Operations Research, 219, 5- 13. Pla, L.M., Rodriguez, S.V., Rebillas, V. 2013. A mixed integer linear programming model for optimal delivery of fattened pigs to the abattoir. Journal of Applied Operations Research, 5(4), 164-175.
SLIDE 39 REFERENCES
- Plà, L.M., (1997) Review of mathematical models for sow
herd management. Livestock Science, 106, 107-119. Rodriguez, S. V., Albornoz, V., & Plà, L. M. (2009). A two stage stochastic programming model for scheduling replacements in sow farms. TOP, 17(1), 171–179.
SLIDE 40 THE SOW REPLACEMENT PROBLEM
- The piglet production capacity
SLIDE 41 THE SOW REPLACEMENT PROBLEM
- The piglet production capacity
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SET AND INDEXES
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SET AND INDEXES
SLIDE 44 REFERENCE
- Whitaker, D. and Cammell, S. 1990. A partitioned Cutting-Stock Problem
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pork products. MSc Thesis. Reykjavík University.
- Kjærsgaard, N., 2008. Optimization of the Raw Material Use at Danish
- Slaughterhouses. Technical University of Denmark. PhD Thesis.
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University of Science and Technology.
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