Optimization of sustainability, selling price, and minimum cost transportation in supply chain management of free-range meat chicken in pasuruan regency, Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to analyze the sustainability of supply of free-range meat chicken in Pasuruan Regency, Indonesia and to obtain an optimization model of selling price and transportation costs of the free-range meat chicken. Artificial neural networks was used to analyse the sustainability of free-range meat chicken supply while linear programming was used to optimize the selling price. In addition, Vogel’s approximation was used to obtain the minimum total cost of transportation. The outcome of the analysis showed that the availability of free-range meat chicken in 2022 was estimated around 40, 016.67 tons with a selling price of IDR 28,100/kg. The minimum overall transportation cost was IDR 3,807,000/quintal.