Logistics and supply chain management of rice in the northeastern area of Thailand

Abstract

This research has applied the rice supply chain and has analyzed the logistics cost through Supply Chain Operation Reference Model (SCOR model) and the Activity Based Costing for measuring the quality of logistic management and rice supply chain. The purpose is to analyze the problems and suggest the solution to manage the logistics and rice supply chain in the Northeastern area of Thailand. The result shows that there are many groups of rice supply chain thus; paddy’s manufacturing group included farmers, the procurement of paddy included middleman, Groups of farmers, and central market, the manufacturer of rice included rice mills and agricultural cooperatives, and rice’s dealer group included exporters, Yong, wholesaler or retailer. There are so many differences that happened in logistics costs in each rice supply chain. But the highest value of each logistics costs was transportation costs. So we should focus on the transportation management for increasing the whole effectiveness of the logistics process and rice supply chain.