The design of spatial based decision support model in crude palm oil industry development

Abstract

Industrial development should consider the location of spatial entities and their interactions. As with other Agro-Industries, the spatial interaction from oil palm plantations to palm oil mills is a complex problem. The complexity is caused by spread of the location of palm plantations and mills, current and potential transportation network, capacity constraint of each oil factory, perishable characteristics of the product, limited of port and port capacity and supply fluctuation from plantations to the factories due to the plant age as well. This research will give solution which has not yet discussed in the earlier publications by providing an alignment of strategic decision with operational decisions using GIS technology and spatial analysis that can represent the system associated with the space effectively. Decision support model was designed to integrate GIS, spatial multicriteria decision model, shortest path algorithm, transportation model, and financial model as well to determine the optimal configuration of spatial entities in CPO industry. IKG2012 model which has built have the capability to accomodate supply fluctuation from plants to factories due to their productivity and the quality requirement related to distribution time from plants to the factories. Loading and unloading capacity, Port’s tank capacity and barge type are considered as constraints in this system. The results of this study will be useful in developing the logistics infrastructure network for this commodity as well.. The selection of development strategy in CPO agroindustry and improvement of transportation infrastructures will improve the performance of National CPO industry significantly.