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Sadia
Miguel Taube-Netto
and
0092-2102/96/2601/0038$01.25
SADIA
duction to around 40 countries. Sadia is
Chicken Production
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TAUBE-NETTO
Number of
Plant Integrated (
Concordia
1,204
1,267
1,119
Chapec?
Dois Vizinhos
Toledo
Francisco Beltrao
Am?rico Brasiliense
Agroavicola
Total
1,061
644
414
350
6,059
309
64 1.714
31 2.309
62 1.715
68 1.802
31 2.301
29 2.007
24 2.100
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SADIA
Live Weight Ranges (kg)
Products
W
h
1.400
1.900
2.400
2.900
WB1
WB2
WB3
0.900
WB4
WB5
WB6
WB7
WB8
BR1
BR2
BR3
BR4
e
a
s
BR5
BR6
BR7
BR8
BR9
LG1
L
e
LG2
LG3
LG4
LG5
LG6
T
h
i
TG1
TG2
TG3
TG4
TG5
Figure 1: Various live weight ranges are needed for certain Sadia products. Within their
ranges, the products can be further classified in narrower ranges. Some products are packed in
boxes of a standard weight, which causes an additional effort of combining products of differ
ent weights to make up a box with the least variation from the standard.
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4.000 y
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60
Age (days)
each plant.
Grandparents, Breeders and Broilers
The process of producing chicks to be
distributed to the integrated growers be
gins with the purchase of chicks from spe
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of 15 percent of ML to 85 percent of FL.
weight.
Processing
Integrated Planning
The processes involved in growing
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TAUBE-NETTO
broiler chickens have been described by
capacities.
This module permits what-if investment
analysis; for instance, planners can evalu
Production Planning.
The PIPA system seeks to optimize deci
questions as these:
?How many grandparent chicks should
Sadia purchase and when?
?When should Sadia discard and replace
markets.
current flocks of grandparents and parents? each site and product demand over time.
chicks at a particular grower? (This is a key form this dynamic planning and control.
The first of the two tactical modules,
ture demand.)
firmed demand.)
and weekly?
?How can it match flocks with slaughter
ing and production capacity every day?
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SADIA
PIPA SYSTEM
Integrated
Global
Planning
Statistical
Support
Site
Planning
Chick
Planning
Feed
Formulation
Flock
Plant
Planning & Control
Shift
ular grower
from which it can be produced
and bywith the support
Planning
and Control
modul
yield coefficients relating its
final weight
to
ule
also
determines
the
indivi
carcass weight (or parts weight).
slaughtered
every day base
Following the productionbe
guidelines,
the
rent
estimated performance o
second tactical module, Site
Planning,
ously housed.
The Plant Plan
determines housing, slaughtering,
and
Control
takes this slau
production schedules for each
site module
based
schedule
its consequent d
on the current status of flocks
and and
daily
weight
distribution
into accou
slaughtering capacities, the
estimated
de
mining
the
site's
mand for families of products,
the
prices
ofproduction s
the costs,
next seven
to 15 days, ba
products, and feed and chick
aiming
firmed
at maximizing a site's margin.
At demand.
this
more
formal description of
point, the main decision is A
how
many
and
plant
planning and contro
chicks will be housed every
day
to provide
Using distribution
representative growth
the proper amount and weight
of flocks
of birds for the followinggroups
months.
Sadia at different c
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TAUBE-NETTO
of growth, specified by sex and lineage, the distribution will determine the best pro
every day.
Sadia begins matching birds and pro
cessing during a production shift by sched
mitments.
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of the module includes schedules for the
Implementation
An early module developed by UniSoma dence of flock growth with market condi
for determining housing and processing
ity considerations.
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some of these needs.
planning module.
The modules of the PIPA system make
Benefits
Table 2: Large linear program sizes typically occur in modules of the PIPA system.
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The ratio is defined as the quotient of
the total feed consumption and the weight
period.
million.
(appendix).
We found that the mean decrease in the
ter opportunities.
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TAUBE-NETTO
a consequence of fast moves programmed
was observed.
profitability.
Final Comments
decision chain.
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The treatment of the quantitative aspects Acknowledgments
of planning, via mathematics and statistics,
I thank Sadia Concordia SA for accept
complements other initiatives by Sadia, as
ing the challenge of putting together its
in the reengineering of its administrative
and automation.
tuations of ingredients.
contributions.
freezing tunnels.
APPENDIX
flexible goals."
Feed-to-Live-Weight Conversion
Improvement
The feed-to-live-weight conversion fac
tor (ratio) is one of the most relevant
performance indicators for the poultry in
dustry. It is a quotient that expresses the
relationship between the quantity of feed
consumed by a chicken or flock and its
weight. Naturally, for birds of identical
weight, a low ratio is better.
This indicator is very useful for assessing
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TAUBE-NETTO
the benefit of the Flock Planning and Con
trol module and its predecessors, as all of
them optimally select the flocks to be col
lected to execute the specified production
plan.
being observed.
The effect of processing age can be fil
tered out if one repeats the exercise de
scribed above, constraining the comparison
to flocks processed at identical ages. Such
Plant
Period
Concordia
before
after
Chapec?
before
Dois Vizinhos
before
Toledo
before
Am?rico
before
after
after
after
after
Standard
Number of Months
Observed
21
45
23
39
27
36
33
33
33
24
Mean
Deviation
2.00
1.94
2.12
2.03
2.00
1.91
1.97
1.96
2.17
2.09
0.033
0.036
0.049
0.050
0.045
0.049
0.028
0.039
0.074
Table 3: The feed-to-live-weight conversion factor (ratio) improved at five of the seven plants
with the installation of the PIPA system.
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0.069
SADIA
Jan May Sept Jan May Sept Jan May Sept Jan May Sept Jan May Sept Jan May Sept
Period
Figure 4: The feed conversion rate decreased after the implementation of the PIPA system at
References
California.
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