Abstract:
Nowadays, poultry transportation from farm to slaughter house of the case study company presents lot of problems. Increasing of maintenance cost and forfeit of delay delivery are examples. Raise of the cost is from less sticky on maintenance timetable. As a result, the company faces amount of loss and forfeit by 291,000 baht during the first quarter of 2006. This research proposes to enhance the transporting performance as well as to provide on-time delivery and reduce mistakes of transportation tasks. Database and customized program are developed so that every truck is allocated for nearly the same distance within a month, including advance maintenance-notifying and quickly report cost for each of them. The adoption of the program in the case company shows that 1) sum of the difference between allocated distance for each truck and average distance is decreasing. From January to March 2006, the number of Chonburi2 and Nakornratchasrima branches reduces by 79.9%, 74.80%, 73.46% and 51.35%, 11.1%, 3.84% respectively. 2) Number of delay delivery in January 2006 is lower than December 2005. Branches of Chonburi1, Chonburi2, Saraburi and Nakornratchasrima decreases from 3.8% to 1.0%, 3.4% to 1.9%, 2.2% to 1.1%, and 2.8% to 1.4% respectively. 3) The program brings more efficient maintenance system to the organization due to precise premonition arrangement.