Logistics System Model Development on Supply Chain Management of Tomato Commodities for Structured Market

Abstract

The tomato is one of the horticulture commodities of high economic-value in Indonesia. However, looking at the characteristics of the products which are perishable due to biological process that continues after the product is harvested, demands high quality, and continuous supply requires agribusiness to implement efficient and responsive logistics management strategies. Packing house Katata farmer groups is one of logistics services unit located at Pangalengan who seeks to increase the quality and continuity of product produced by farmer members, distributed to structurized market. The purpose of this research is to develop optimum logistic system model in packing house which manage tw tomato produced by local farmer to be sold in structurized market. Research has been conducted using a discrete event simulation approach which is simulated with a change of status from a simulation model occur at points of discrete time caused by the case. The result of the research indicated that the current logistic activity has not been optimum yet. There were four models of logistics system proposed, the selected model was model 4. Average utilities of model 4 achieved 71.64% with lower logistics cost than the actual model. Logistics systems which is scalable, have an effective performance and cost efficient were the optimum logistic system for packing house Katata farmer groups. The system can provide positive effect on the accuracy of the decision that affect on farmer productivity, logistic achievements and logistic expenses.