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Excerpt from Marketing New England Poultry: Effects of Firm Size and Production Density on Assembly Costs
This report presents a synthetic analysis of space relationships de signed to determine the net effects on assembly costs of change in I) firm size, 2) supply density, and 3) transport distance. All other possible variables such as production and assembly technology, and bird type were kept constant.
Capacity of firms is specified in terms of pound live birds hauled per day. Numbers of men and trucks required by any firm vary in this analysis to achieve the least cost combination for any assembly opera tion. Density is specified as the quantity of broilers produced in some two dimensional portion as the supply area (square mile) over some period of time (year). Three density levels: and pounds of live broilers per square mile per year are considered in this study.
The synthetic model assumes a ?at plane surrounding a center in a circular pattern with poultry located evenly over it. The model consists of a set of six such planes for each density level, one plane for each size of firm. In the analysis of the model the six planes are superimposed concentrically resulting in a single surface made up of six bands. Each band is the supply area added when moving from a smaller to a larger alternative firm size. Within each band poultry for any one day's pickup is assumed to be concentrated at an impound point so there is no travel between farms by pickup crew.
The sizes and numbers of crew-truck complements to achieve min imum labor imput for each plant size (at each density level) are deter mined from assembly matrices. These matrices handle all possible com himations of crew sizes (from three to ten men) and truck numbers. The diagonal of each lists various complements to be considered in as sembling poultry in each supply band when the appropriate supply bands are handled separately by each firm. The upper right-hand half of each matrix lists the complements when considering combining assembly in two or more supply hands by any firm. The lower left-hand portion of each matrix is not applicable.
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