milk procurement route optimisation using gis in a farmers’ dairy organisation

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers’ dairy organisation

Darsh WorahDy. ManagerNDDB, Ananddkworah@nddb.coop

Subir MitraSr. ManagerNDDB, Anandsubir@nddb.coop

Mena PaghadarDy. ManagerNDDB, Anandmenap@nddb.coop

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Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

FarmersMilk in vessels Dairy Co-op

Society (DCS)Milk in cans

through vehicles

Dairy plant Chilling Centre

Through trucks

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

• A typical milk union in Maharashtra

•138 pick up points

•Milk collected in two shifts

•Routing is manually planned

•Farthest point first

Present case study

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

•Tata 407 = 44 cans

•Mahindra max = 40 cans

•Minidor = 20 cans

•Rickshaw = 8 cans

* each can of 40 lit capacity.

Vehicle types and their carrying capacity

•All vehicles - Start from Dairy plant - Come back to Dairy plant

• Dairy co-operative Society – Source points

• Dairy Plant – Sink point

•Volumes change : Summer and Winter

•Medium sized union – 800 source points, 4-6 Chilling centers/Dairy plants

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

Milk procurement transportation from villages

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

• Efficient transport system

• Minimise transportation cost

• Validating current routes

• Scope of improvement

• Quicker planning

Our objective…

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

•Time

•Vehicle Capacity

•Time windows

•Transportation rate

Business constraints

Data Used:•GPS locations of DCS•Road Network

Analysis:Vehicle Routing problem using ArcGIS Network Analyst

Optimised Routes:11 Routes covering 138 DCS

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

Methodology

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

Pick up points – DCS

Dairy plant

Vehicle type, Capacity, Max Order count, Max travelling Distance

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

Dairy plant and DCS locations

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

Existing Routes

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

Optimised Routes

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

Optimised and Existing routes

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

Existing route details

Route Name

Vehical type Trip distance (km) Trip cost

1 TATA 407 119 657

2 MAX 207 91 521

3 TATA 407 108 596

4 TATA 407 156 874

5 TATA 407 114 645

6 TATA 407 141 835

7 TATA 407 143 847

8 RIKSHAW 24 112

9 Max Mah 102 574

10 TATA 407 114 612

11 TATA 207 100 588

12 Max Mah 173 862

13 MINI DOR 60 358

  TOTAL 1445 8080

Route Name

Vehical type Trip distance (km) Trip Cost

1 Max Mah 145 722

2 Max Mah 130 732

3 Max 207 130 744

4 Tata 407 83 458

5 Tata 407 117 646

6 Tata 407 101 566

7 Tata 407 62 351

8 Tata 407 146 864

9 Tata 407 148 876

10 Tata 407 149 800

11 Tata 407 139 817

   Total 1351 7576

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

Optimised route details

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

EXISTING ROUTES:

No of Routes : 13

Total length : 1445 km / Shift

Cost of transportation : 0.75 Rs/lit

Annual transportation cost : 59 lakh

OPTIMISED ROUTES:

No of Routes : 11

Total length: 1350 km/shift

Cost of transportation: 0.70 Rs/lit

Annual transportation cost : 55.3 lakh

Annual savings of Rs. 3.7 lakh

6 % savings on annual basis

Results

• GIS Technology for Farmers’ organisation

• Initial hand holding and training required

• Better road network – Better optimisation

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation

Conclusion

Milk procurement route optimisation using GIS in a farmers' dairy organisation