DETERMINATION OF DOLOG’S IDEAL WAREHOUSE BASED ON MINIMUM LOGISTICS COST
ABSTRACT: Most of indonesian
societies consume rice as staple food and therefore need the amount of rice
that meet the demand within the infinite time. Food warehouse is needed in
order to maintain supplies. Rice warehouse should be located in the strategic
location so that it is easy to reach and to avoid the stagnation of supply. In
addition, that can also be useful for financing streamline because it can
minimize the logistics costs. Dolog as a unit of the agency Bulog is
responsible to maintain the stability and availability of basic foodstuffs in
the region of Indonesia and to participate in the procurement and supply of
basic foodstuffs especially rice. To carry out its duties, Dolog also must have
an ideal rice warehouse which its capacity should meet the demand of the rice
according to the market supplied. The result of cluster method used in this
research suggests that there are three ideal warehouse locations to supply main
markets in Bandung. If the three ideal warehouse locations are compared with
the existing warehouse, proposed warehouse location donates saving about IDR
45,032,203 per year or approximately IDR 125,000 per day. So there are two
solutions can be taken by Dolog that the first is open new warehouses and the
second is using the old warehouse and adding the shortage storage capacity by
opening additional warehouse at ± 6,000 tons.
Author: ERIANA ASTUTY
Journal Code: jptindustrigg140009
