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    Internal Supply Chain Improvement Via Production Modeling For Large Scale Poultry Farms
    (Addis Ababa University, 2016-06) Selamawit, Fekade; Gulelat, Gatew (PhD); Yared, Lemma (Mr.) Co-Advisor
    Broiler meat processing farms are generally recognized as one of the main factor of economic growth for the development of one country. These farms contribute to job opportunities, food safety, directly or indirectly protects environment and it creates a major window of opportunity for most developing countries. Ethiopia is one of the few African countries with a significantly large population of chicken, estimated at 56.87 million and poultry production is widespread and almost every rural family owns chicken. Currently, with the rapid development of the country, people who live in cities use processed broiler meat. However, there is a shortfall of 56.7% of the demand in Addis Ababa. One of the reasons for the uncovered demand is that, there are few large scale poultry farms. Moreover these farms cannot produce to their full capacity because of not knowing how to use their resources effectively, information gap, poor inventory management system and knowledge gap. These means the farms have inefficient working system on the key drivers of internal supply chain. This study covers how to improve internal supply chain of large scale poultry farms via production modeling to increase productivity. With this objective, in order to propose a model for broiler meat processing farms, the study analyzed the problems being faced by this sector. The study is done based on intensive interviews, questionnaires, focused group discussion and secondary data. According to the collected data most of the farms produce less than 50% of their capacity, do not have effective flock projection or planning method, have poor inventory management system, are disintegrated and unorganized, almost all farms use un modernized farming system. So, to improve internal supply chain the study developed an excel flock projection data base and simulation model which allow for analysis of the processes and calculations of effective use of each resource, easily determine and quantify the required facility, enable communicattion horizontally and vertically throughout the internal supply chain.