Hog Case Study

Module 3 - Session 12: Integrated Logistics I HOG CASE

-In this case study, you will design a system to haul live hogs from farms to a slaughter plant.

-The case study requires an analysis of the movement of approximately 50,000 hogs per week (2.5 million per year) from locations that are between 30 minutes to 3.5 hours from the plant. The catchment area of the plant is broken into 14 sub-areas, with total volumes and transit times specified for each area.

-Your templates will identify a typical week's and a typical day's shipping pattern from the 14 sub-areas to the plant. You must also plan for a truck fleet consisting of 3 different truck sizes that will accomplish the required transportation task. See the industry spec sheet below.

-you must also determine the maximum inventory of live hogs that will occur in a typical day's operation, and from that, make a judgment as to the number of pens required to hold the hogs for slaughter.

Keep the following questions in mind as you work through the material:

1. Is it better to have an in-house fleet, or to hire trucks?

2. Could the suppliers provide transportation? If so, what would the implications be?

3. Since the data required for accurately determining an optimum number of holding pens is not directly available from the problem, how would you determine this number? (Model? Data Collection?)

-The plant slaughters 2.5 million hogs annually, at a steady rate over 50 weeks (50,000 hogs per week).

-The hogs are trucked into Brandon from all over Manitoba, and parts of Saskatchewan. The closest farms are approximately a half hour away from the plant, and the farthest are 3.5 hours away from the plant.

-With loading and unloading time, it takes between 1.5 and 4.5 hours to collect, transport and unload the hogs into holding pens at the slaughter plant.

-14 subareas which lie at different distances from the plant. The areas are:

A. Brandon local

B. Brandon regional

C. Portage...