Livestock supply chain logistics

Livestock Supply Chain Logistics
Lessons learned from Oceania
Jean-Paul Thull FCILT
Thull & Associates
TAURANGA – New Zealand

Overview
 Stakeholders (from the farm to the plate)
 Complexity of livestock movements (U-tube)
 Learning elements
 Where to from here?
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Stakeholders
 Livestock
 Farmers
 Stock Agent (private companies, meat processors)
 Sale Yards
 Meat processing plants (domestic, export)
 Road transport - trucking companies (dispatcher, driver)
 Maritime transport
 Regulating authorities (disease control, animal welfare, cultural aspects)
 Consumer
 International Markets
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Livestock
 Animal behaviour
 dog vs. cat
 cattle
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Farmer
 Farmer’s livelihood depend
 on day-to-day availability of basic needs rather than average income
 assessment of short- and longer-term risks and
 related coping mechanisms are crucial human-welfare issues.
 Components of risk that make farmers vulnerable include:
 environmental: droughts, flood, pests;
 market: price changes, loss of markets;
 political: civil strife, insecurity;
 social: marginalisation of groups or individuals;
 health: diseases that prevent earning a livelihood.
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Farmer
 Careful handling of livestock
 Animal welfare & health (diseases)
 Personal hygiene
 Animal nutrition (food, access to water)
 Awareness of supply chain from farm to the plate
 Communication with relevant parties
 Taking responsibility at early stage
 Quality of meat influencing prices at consumer level
 Consumer demanding quality
 Cost benefit analysis (housing stock vs. grazing all over the
land)
 Farmer as entrepreneur
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Farmer
Farmer as entrepreneur
 Regional co-ops
 Joint partnerships to
educate stakeholders to
avoid international
exploitation
 Using government
subsidies to rural
development benefitting
bottom-up approach long
-term
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Stock agent  private company (eg. PGG in New Zealand)
sales through saleyards
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Stock agent
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farmer becomes a
direct contractor
to produce to
specific standards
 meat processing plant

Sale Yards (best practice bottom right)
 Role of sale yards as meeting/socialising places
 Dramatic reduction of sale yards across NZ & AUS
 cost saving through direct sales from farm to meat processor
 Reduced stress on animals
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Sale yards in Kupang area
(Timor)
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Meat processing plants
 Domestic
 International market
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Meat processing plants
 Kupang (local abattoir)
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Road transport
 Regulations depend on country
 Europe differs from NZ/AUS
 NZ differs from AUS
 Communications between parties
 Ideal transport/handling mode
 Preparation for transport
 Type of vehicles
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Road transport Australia
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Road Transport
ex. Kupang
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Maritime Transport
 Domestic shipping
bottom Lombok (Ind)
top right Bass Strait (AUS)
bottom right Strait Shipping (NZ)
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Maritime
Transport
 Domestic shipping
right Broome (AUS)
ship Go Lesath
left NL
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Maritime Transport
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Maritime Transport
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Regulatory
Authorities
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Consumer
 We tell the NZ story
“including environment
and animal welfare
aspects – and highlight our
food safety systems, as
well as the health and
wellbeing attributes of
NZ beef.”
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International Markets
Beef exports OECD & FAS data
reliance of data 
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Complexity of livestock movements (U-tube)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQRZeiOQvaw
• 10minutes
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Where To From Here for BNTEC?
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Where To From Here?
 Complexity of cultures and leadership
 Complexity of data – Understanding data
 Willingness to move towards better practice
 Draft proposal to move forward
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Performance & People
Cultures emphasis emphasis atmosphere
Performance People
1. Autocratic Culture + - poor work environment
2. Laissez Faire Culture - - lack of directions
3. Paternalistic Culture - + warm, friendly
4. High Performance Culture + + encouragement to strive
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Complexity of data
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Data difficult to extract from
spreadsheets
Meat yield [kg] more relevant
than numbers
Breeding vs. slaughtering
programmes
Feasibility of proposals in
relation to culture & natural
resources
Graphs by Thull

Understanding Data
 Funding (changes required?
 Culture agriculture
 Ownership (often in wrong
places > efficiencies
required
 Including future
infrastructure
developments
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Willingness To Move Towards Better Practice
 Multi-disciplinary approach
 Identify number of smaller projects with tangibles within a larger concept
 Setting up data collection enabling to collect on one platform in similar way
 Providing local government with this task by taking one LG agency as one test
example to learn best way of collecting data, led by a consortium of dedicated
experts not looking at maximising profits but serving the purpose
 Setting budget to perform the task
 Step by step process to keep costs under control
 Small team
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Draft Proposal (1)
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Draft Proposal (2)
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Draft Proposal (3)
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Thank you for listening 
Questions?
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