JTRF Volume 56 No. 3, Fall 2017Bringing in the Sheaves: Changes in Canada’s Grain Supply Chain Through the Post Canadian Wheat Board Era

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek G. Brewin ◽  
James F. Nolan ◽  
Richard S. Gray ◽  
Troy G. Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Relative Stability ◽  
Rail Transportation ◽  
Handling System ◽  
Grain Handling ◽  
Canadian Wheat Board

Vast distances in the Canadian grain handling system means that the supply chain is highly reliant on rail transportation. After years of relative stability, the grain supply chain has recently undergone many signifi cant changes, including deregulation in grain handling. However, the consequences emerging from some of these changes were unexpected. In this paper, we explore the evolving behavior of participants in the increasingly liberalized Canadian grain handling supply chain. The changes seem to be creating new winners and losers in the system. To this end, we fi nd that while current railroad regulations in Canada have led to effi ciencies, deregulation of grain handling seems to have generated gains for grain companies at the expense of farmers.

scholarly journals Traceable Air Baggage Handling System Based on RFID Tags in the Airport

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ting Zhang ◽  
Yuanxin Ouyang ◽  
Yang He
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Object Identification ◽  
Rfid Tags ◽  
Handling System ◽  
International Airport ◽  
Management Efficiency ◽  
Baggage Handling

The RFID is not only a feasible, novel, and cost-effective candidate for daily object identification but it is also considered as a significant tool to provide traceable visibility along different stages of the aviation supply chain. In the air baggage handing application, the RFID tags are used to enhance the ability for baggage tracking, dispatching and conveyance so as to improve the management efficiency and the users’ satisfaction. We surveyed current related work and introduce the IATA RP1740c protocol used for the standard to recognize the baggage tags. One distributed aviation baggage traceable application is designed based on the RFID networks. We describe the RFID-based baggage tracking experiment in the BCIA (Beijing Capital International Airport). In this experiment the tags are sealed in the printed baggage label and the RFID readers are fixed in the certain interested positions of the BHS in the Terminal 2. We measure the accurate recognition rate and monitor the baggage’s real-time situation on the monitor’s screen. Through the analysis of the measured results within two months we emphasize the advantage of the adoption of RFID tags in this high noisy BHS environment. The economical benefits achieved by the extensive deployment of RFID in the baggage handing system are also outlined.

scholarly journals An Optimal Redesign Approach for Optimal Global Supply Chain Redesign: Brazilian Soybean Grain Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Juan José Uchuya Lopéz ◽  
Raad Yahya Qassim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Rail Transportation ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Inland Waterways

Brazil and the United States are the leading soybean grain producing and exporting countries in the world. Although crop production cost is significantly lower in Brazil than in the United States due to more advanced crop production technology, this competitive advantage vanishes in view of the higher logistics costs in Brazil than in the United States, in view of the dominance of road transportation in Brazil, whilst river and rail transportation are prevalent in the United States. In order to regain its competitive advantage, there is a clear need for a redesign of the inland supply chain in Brazil through the use and expansion of existent inland waterways and rail networks. In this paper, an optimal supply chain redesign methodology is presented to achieve the aforesaid objective, with a focus on Mato Grosso which is the largest producer and exporting state in Brazil. This methodology is in fact applicable to multiply echelon global supply chains in general.

19. The Grain-Handling System

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Everitt ◽  
Donna Shimamura Everitt ◽  
Susan L. Laskin
Keyword(s):  
Handling System ◽  
Grain Handling

scholarly journals Assessment of Orange (Citrus Sinensis) Supply Chain Activities in Kano State

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Lawan ◽  
Aliyu I Muhammad ◽  
Nura A Sale ◽  
Rabi K Ahmad ◽  
Zahraddeen Usman
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Citrus Sinensis ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Handling System ◽  
Agricultural Equipment ◽  
Mode Of Transportation ◽  
Manual Handling

The study focused on the handling system of orange in Yanlemo Market of Kano State. A field study was conducted with structural questionnaires that targeted the orange supplies, traders and agricultural equipment suppliers/fabricators. Result obtained reveals that the orange handling activity is dominated by male traders. Average of 2 to 5 bags of oranges are usually handled by about 53.3% of the respondents, while 8.3% handle more than 10 bags of the oranges daily. Dan Tivi was found to be the commonest orange variety in the study area. Some other varieties established in the study area are; Dan Nassarawa, Dan Ondo and Dan Delta representing about 8.3, 1.7 and 1.7% of the varieties handled in the study area respectively. The mode of transportation, sorting, and washing was found to be manual with a lot of challenges. The predominant manual handling of the orange established in the study area could be amongst the major reasons for the high losses usually recorded by the traders on a daily basis. Thus, useful suggestions that could be employed by researchers and policymakers to provide improvements in the supply chain activities to prevent such losses are presented.  Keywords— Orange, Assessment, Supply Chain, Handling

scholarly journals A GRAIN HANDLING SYSTEM FOR EXPERIMENTAL PLOTS

1971 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-80
Author(s):  
D. G. Faris ◽  
H. Lock
Keyword(s):  
Handling System ◽  
Grain Handling ◽  
Experimental Plots

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scholarly journals Outcome-Driven Supply Chain Perspectives on Dry Ports

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alena Khaslavskaya ◽  
Violeta Roso
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Rail Transportation ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Dry Ports

The hinterland leg of maritime containerized transport as a part of supply chain has been increasingly pressured by larger volumes, as well as by a need to fulfill sustainability requirements that are expressed by social opinion and formal regulations. There is a potential to relieve this pressure through integration of a dry port, as a seaport’s inland interface, in the supply chain. Therefore, this paper aims to explain how a supply chain can benefit or enhance its outcomes of cost, responsiveness, security, environmental performance, resilience, and innovation, by the integration of a dry port. The data for this case study is collected through interviews and site visits from the privately owned Skaraborg dry port, Sweden; and the study is limited to the actors of the transport system involved in the development and operations of the dry port integrated setup. The results show that the six supply chain outcomes (cost, responsiveness, security, environmental performance, resilience, and innovation) are perceived by the actors as being desirable, and can be enhanced by the integration of a dry port in the supply chains. In particular, the enhancement of the supply chain outcomes can be achieved due to intermodality and reliability of rail transportation and customization of services associated with the dry port integrated setup, and by increasing the capacity of transportation system.

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