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Spatial Organization of Marketing Facilities in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Oilseeds in Sudan
Author(s) -
Baldwin E. Dean,
Babiker Babiker I.,
Larson Donald W.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.29
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1574-0862
pISSN - 0169-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-0862.1987.tb00021.x
Subject(s) - marketing , relevance (law) , developing country , transshipment (information security) , destinations , business , distribution (mathematics) , agribusiness , economics , tourism , agriculture , operations research , economic growth , geography , engineering , mathematics , mathematical analysis , archaeology , political science , law
Little attention has been devoted to the study of spatial organization of marketing facilities in developing countries, even though such studies would be most useful for a wide range of marketing problems. The results of such studies could be valuable to private and public decision‐makers in developing countries whose policies and decisions determine the number, size and location of marketing facilities. The spatial organization model developed in this paper for application to the oilseeds industry in Sudan demonstrates the relevance of this research technique for developing country studies of marketing facilities. A linear programming transshipment model is utilized to determine the optimal spatial organization of oilseeds in Sudan when the costs of oilseed assembly, processing and distribution of oil and cake to final destinations are considered simultaneously. The optimal spatial organization of oilseed processing plants was determined for six alternative solutions. Model results indicate that the optimal organization of processing plants would be obtained with fewer and larger plants, resulting in lower transportation costs .