The production of corn seeds involves a complex agro-industrial production chain whose main agents must offer products of high quality and low price to stay competitive in the market. This work proposes a linear optimization model to support decisions in the tactical planning of production, storing and transportation of corn seeds, designed to minimize production, logistics and tax costs and to satisfy crop planning, plant capacity and client demand constraints. In order to verify the consistency of the model and validate the approach, the model was implemented in the GAMS modeling language and applied to solve different scenarios of an example based on realistic data of a company. The results showed the importance of considering tax costs in the production and logistics aggregate planning of corn seeds.
Corn seeds; production and logistics planning; linear optimization; tributary planning; ICMS
