This study proposes a plan for separate production at a field batch plant and logistics operation to introduce a management system for a ready-mixed concrete batch plant capable of sharing information about the location of ready-mixed concrete product...
This study proposes a plan for separate production at a field batch plant and logistics operation to introduce a management system for a ready-mixed concrete batch plant capable of sharing information about the location of ready-mixed concrete production, the quality of ready- mixed concrete, the size of a construction site, and the transportation environment of ready-mixed concrete via an ERP system or in real time and to flexibly apply it according to analysis results. The study developed a logistics rationalization plan by improving the empty transfer rates of vehicles including cargo trucks, such as dump trucks, that would have a certain percentage of materials including aggregate and cement supplied from a field batch plant at a construction site along with the production of a fixed batch plant, make ready-mixed concrete at a field batch plant, supply it to the construction site, and to gain a return after material procurement costs, ready-mixed concrete quality, transportation costs of ready-mixed concrete, and the delivery of ready-mixed concrete. The analysis results demonstrate that logistics operation based on separate production at a field batch plant proposed in the study saved logistics costs considerably more than the production of ready-mixed concrete at the old field batch plant.