An identification of warehouse location in Thailand
Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics
ISSN: 1355-5855
Article publication date: 11 June 2018
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this research is to identify a province in Thailand where total transportation cost for shipping grocery goods from this province to customers in all other provinces is the lowest.
Design/methodology/approach
Transportation distances among provinces, freight rate and the number of population in each province were gathered. Total transportation cost was computed by taking distance, tapering freight rate and population including that in original province into account.
Findings
Based on pre-set assumptions, it reveals that Saraburi province has the lowest total transportation cost.
Research limitations/implications
This research emphasizes only transportation cost. For future research, other monetary and non-monetary factors such as land, labor, investment incentive, local government regulation should be considered together.
Practical implications
This is an industry-based research especially for retail and fast-moving consumer goods businesses.
Originality/value
This practitioner paper is one of the first to identify population, freight rate and distance-based warehouse location which can be determined as a location for Thailand’s logistics hub, particularly for retail or fast-moving consumer goods business in Thailand.
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Acknowledgements
This paper is revised and expanded version of Vanichchinchai, A. and Apirakkhit, S. (2016). “A distance and population-based Location for Thailand’s Logistics Hub” in the 7th International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management 2016 Proceedings of the International Conference in Phuket, Thailand, 18-21 December 2016, Mahidol University and Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, pp. 71-77. The authors would like to thank the editor and anonymous referees for their constructive reviews, and thank Dr Anna Fraszczyk and Dr Detcharat Sumrit for language editing and valuable comments.
Citation
Vanichchinchai, A. and Apirakkhit, S. (2018), "An identification of warehouse location in Thailand", Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Vol. 30 No. 3, pp. 749-758. https://doi.org/10.1108/APJML-10-2017-0229
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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