Estimating inventory stocks for greenhouse heating needs

Abstract

Paper deals with the problem of supply logistic for greenhouse energy purposes. It is an attempt to estimate the proper supplies of coal, to reduce the costs of warehouse management in the analyzed horticultural enterprise. The analysis includes estimation of the object's heat demands of the, an optimal order quantity and calculation of costs of maintaining inventory. The research object is a greenhouse complex (10 ha) with tomatoes cultivation. We calculated that, the proposed inventory shaping method, to determine the order quantity of energy raw material for the needs of the greenhouse, would reduce inventory financing costs by 33.5%.