Application of Lean Manufacturing Tools in the Food and Beverage Industries

Lopes, Rui Borges; Freitas, Filipa; Sousa, Inês Pereira de

doi:10.4067/s0718-27242015000300013

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“…The key benefit revealed to be decreasing the inventory level. Improving the supply chain flexibility, eliminating wastes and reducing the cycle times are added benefits to include and these finding also align with the literature (Bruce et al, 2004;Achanga et al, 2006;Womack et al, 2007;Cudney and Elord, 2011;Borges Lopes et al, 2015). Interestingly, the drivers related to providing great customer satisfaction and increasing the profits were ranked low, in agreement to the understanding of basic lean depicted in previous section.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Similarly, Ugochukwu et al (2012) pointed out that lean is a management approach that attempt to organize the human activities to deliver more added values to customers while eliminating waste inside and afar organizations value chain. It is an approach to monitor and control the waste inadvertently generated by a specific process to accomplish cost lessening, quality and proficiency optimization with less exertion (Borges Lopes et al, 2015). By reviewing the preceding literature, it can be concluded that there are alternate perspectives on the emergence of the lean concept.…”

Section: Literature Review the Lean Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lean Philosophy: A step towards improving the management of hotel supply chain

Kamar¹

2018

International Journal of Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality

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Effective hotel supply chain management has burgeoned as a potentially valuable means for achieving competitive advantage and improving organizational performance. Competition between hotels has recently expanded to include competition between supply chains. Major businesses around the world have realized the value that lean management philosophy can bring to their supply chains. Lean is a systematic approach that is presently argued to be adopted to optimize the entire supply chain management by eliminating wasteful activities (time, effort and materials), increasing product flow efficiency, reducing inventories, and enhancing customer fulfillment and satisfaction. The aim of the current study is twofold. Firstly, it aims to assess the current level of awareness about lean management within the hotel sector in Egypt, as a point of reference to evaluate the readiness of this sector to implement the lean concept in the management of their supply chains. Secondly, it further attempts to propose a framework to facilitate the implementation of lean in the management of hotel supply chain. A quantitative methodological approach of a questionnaire has been conducted with senior managers in five-star and four-star hotels in Egypt. Findings indicated that hotels in Egypt are somewhat aware of the terms like, for example, lean management, lean thinking, or lean principles, though more emphasis is needed on how to effectively implement lean tools in the management of hotel supply chains. Lean awareness status differed between five-star and four-star sub-segments. Overall, the results indicated that the hotel sector in Egypt has an adequate level of readiness to implement lean supply chain management (LSCM). It was shown that hotels already have in place certain practices that support this philosophy. Finally, a four-phase framework for effective LSCM implementation has been proposed. Keywords Lean management, lean thinking, supply chain management, hotel sector, Egypt.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Literature Review the Lean Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lean Philosophy: A step towards improving the management of hotel supply chain

Kamar¹

2018

International Journal of Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality

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“…As mentioned by [30], the company has sought to innovate its production process by adopting the industrial management technique Lean Manufacturing. For such, this knowledge transfer has been efficiently established with the assistance of the LKT team, made up of collaborators from two Federal Higher Education Institutions and the company in this study.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The benefits brought forth by implanting this industrial management technique, according to [4], are reduction of production costs, of lead time and improvement of production flow. Additionally, [30] stress that this technique has been shown as a good example of innovation in enterprises and one of its supports is the continuous improvement. However, so as to explore Lean, firstly, a current Value Stream Mapping (VSM) must be carried out in the production process aiming to show the wastes inherent to the process and then point out improvement opportunities in the future state or expected state VSM [12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lean Practices Transfer in Developed Countries

Almeida

Silva

Kovaleski

et al. 2019

Int J Innov Educ Res

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Although Lean knowledge is widely spread worldwide bringing forth benefits to organizations, observable in the literature is that small-sized enterprises in developed countries do not usually apply this industrial management technique. Therefore, this article has sought to demonstrate that Lean Knowledge Transfer, through the university-enterprise cooperation, may reach expressive results in a wires and cables company. To achieve that, a product family largely impacting the production process has been selected in that company. Next, the tool Value Stream Mapping (VSM) has been used to visualize the current state and, in partnership with the company’s managers, idealize a future state of the process. With that, wastes have been found in the production process and Lean tools have been pointed out to reach improvements proposed in the future state. The results have shown a significant reduction in wastes of: movement of operators (50 and 40% in distances traveled), inventories (44 and 22% of copper), lead time (60 and 53% of the time) and the number of operators (39% in total). Thus, the conclusion is that these results corroborate the literature, where one may apply Lean knowledge transfer in different-sized enterprises so as to seek the reduction of wastes and improve the production process efficiently with the cooperation of universities.

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“…The overall performance of this line was found to be below the target, hence the need for improvement was necessary to achieved this, is by making a study of the process analysis in order to consider every part of the production line as well as analyzing the data to detect the possible failures of the production line. Rui et al [2] applied lean manufacturing techniques in a food and beverage industries to improve their productivity by sensitizing the employees on the importance of lean concepts and the implementation. The employees were informed and trained on the 5S methodology on several work stations.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%