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| Research Title |
Cocoa Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of Cocoa
Farmer Community Enterprise in Nan Province of Thailand |
| Date of Distribution |
15 September 2023 |
| Conference |
| Title of the Conference |
15th GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES |
| Organiser |
Global Academy of Training & Research (GATR) Enterprise Malaysia |
| Conference Place |
NOVOTEL BANGKOK PLATINUM PRATUNAM, BANGKOK, THAILAND |
| Province/State |
BANGKOK |
| Conference Date |
14 September 2023 |
| To |
15 September 2023 |
| Proceeding Paper |
| Volume |
15 |
| Issue |
1 |
| Page |
135 |
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| Abstract |
The cocoa supply chain is new to Thailand as it has been planted recently. Cocoa planting in
some areas of the country, North and East regions. It has a small number of farmers, but they are
major cocoa producers for cocoa manufacturing in the country. The cocoa supply chain in
Thailand includes farmers, collectors, community enterprises, manufacturing, and exporters. The
farmers are upstream in the cocoa supply chain. They have less negotiation power in the chain,
causing limited distribution channels. The farmer sells cocoa beans through collectors or maybe
intermediaries. Selling prices depend on cocoa pricing in the world market. Therefore, they need
help increasing selling prices. However, another way to improve their revenue from cocoa
planting is the increasing efficiency of their operations. This paper aims to study the waste in the
cocoa supply chain. The area of study is Nan province in Thailand. The farmers of community
enterprises in the Nan province of North Thailand, collectors, and manufacturers were selected
as the sample frame. Farmers' data was collected through the questionnaire, and 66 community
enterprise members were selected with purposive sampling. One collector and one manufacturer
were interviewed through semi-structured interviews. Finally, a value stream mapping tool was
used to analyze the manufacturing process. The value stream mapping analysis results found as
follows. The value added activity (VA) count for 42.42% of all activities, taking 89.70% of all
time in one cocoa’s value chain cycle. However, as a result, it found that the number of
necessary but non-value added (NNVA) for 48.48% and using time was 3.12% of the total time.
non-value-added (NVA) activities in 9.09% of all activities. Therefore, dropping out of NVA
activities and reducing the time of NNVA activities will increase the cycle speed of cocoa’s
supply chain. |
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| Peer Review Status |
มีผู้ประเมินอิสระ |
| Level of Conference |
นานาชาติ |
| Type of Proceeding |
Abstract |
| Type of Presentation |
Oral |
| Part of thesis |
true |
| Presentation awarding |
false |
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