Supporting Harvest Planning Decisions in the Tomato Industry
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Abstract
Tomato is a raw material that easily deteriorates once harvested and loaded on trucks, losing juice and flesh. Therefore, the reduction of trucks’ waiting times in the receiving area of a processing plant can allow reducing tomato waste. In this article, we develop a model that aims to keep a continuous flow of fresh tomato to a paste processing plant and to decrease trucks’ waiting times in the plant receiving area. The model is used in a real case of a tomato paste company. The obtained solutions present a better allocation of the harvest shifts, allowing more uniform truck arrivals to the plant during the day. Therefore, trucks waiting times are reduced, decreasing raw material deterioration.
Details
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems |
Pages | 353-359 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2017 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Externally published | Yes |
External IDs
Scopus | 85049154008 |
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