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Logistic processes are a challenge to collective organizations of rural producers. The lack of technological support in those processes is an obstacle for the maintenance of the small producers in the distribution channels. A research theme is the adaptation of some logistic models normally adequate for urban reality to the context of small rural organizations. This adaptation seems pertinent, since some particularities of this kind of organization can be associated to complex problems related to the supply chain. In the case presented in this work, the first stage in the development of the system consisted in defining the main problems related to the inefficiency of the collection and distribution processes. Costs concerning the logistics processes were also measured. In this paper we propose the reasoning elements regarding a routing system and methods for cost estimation adapted to small rural organizations.
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Ferneda, E., Mello, B.A., Diniz, J.A.S., Figueiredo, A. (2010). Reasoning Elements for a Vehicle Routing System. In: Setchi, R., Jordanov, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15393-8_21
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