Multicriteria decision model to choose the most suitable transportation system: a study of the soybean production flow in Mato Grosso do Sul state

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Danilo Medeiros de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Mendes dos Reis, João Gilberto, Vendrametto, Oduvaldo, Lopes, Antônio Carlos Vaz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Produção Online
• Texto Completo: https://www.producaoonline.org.br/rpo/article/view/2206
• topic: Logistics. Transportation System. Grains Production. Mato Grosso do Sul; Analytic Hierarchy Process.; Logística. Modais de Transportes. Produção de Grãos. Mato Grosso do Sul. Análise Hierárquica do Processo.

Brazil is one of the most important players in the world grain production. The Mato Grosso do Sul state (MS), for instance, holds the third place in corn production and fifth place in soybean production. However, its major challenge is establishing a logistic system for grain transportation. The purpose of this paper is to present a multicriteria decision model to choose the most optimal transportation system for the grains produced in MS. To perform this research, we interviewed 15 transport, commercial, and government specialists involved with state transportation systems. Moreover, we established the multicriteria decision model using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to determine the transportation system that presents the best relationship between cost and benefits of physical attributes of transport such as velocity, reliability, capacity, availability, and frequency. Our results showed that road freight is the best option for MS, despite road transportation systems having a higher cost, owing to the benefits created by this kind of system.