Combine project management and economic order quantity: Is it valuable on food industry?

Abstract

The agricultural processing industry often face conditions, as delivery delays raw materials from agricultural land, poor post-harvest handling and distribution network that is affected by distance and time, no standard pattern selection of agriculture and there is no a way of storing a decent raw materials produce. This phenomenon led to the resulting end products, decreased taste or may not be utilized, so some people will be harmed, namely suppliers, producers and consumers. The main study should be noteworthy in ensuring, the availability of agricultural raw materials, which became supply the agriculture processing industries is determine the activity, which can be delayed and critical activity, which can be solved with the project management approach. Further activities that could be put on delayed and critical would be affect, on an effort to provide a decent amount of raw materials both in the amount of volume and the time provision, which can be guaranteed by the approach of economic order quantity. This paper seeks to approach a state of the art, of combining project management and economic order quantity, in order to ensure the smooth distribution of farmers to manufacturers, as well as the appropriateness of the amount of fulfillment of demand from producers to consumers.