Applying Value Stream Mapping to reduce food losses and wastes in supply chains: A systematic review

Steur, Hans De; Wesana, Joshua; Dora, Manoj; Pearce, Darian; Gellynck, Xavier

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2016.08.025

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“…Analytical tools already exist for examining the various dimensions of food value chains and work is underway to develop metrics and methods that provide a more holistic assessment by integrating different disciplines and models. [45][46][47] This remains an important area for future research.…”

Section: Consumption-oriented Approachmentioning

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Analyzing food value chains for nutrition goals

Morgan

Hawkes

Dangour

et al. 2018

Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition

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First proposed in 2010, the use of "value chain analysis" to identify opportunities for targeted nutrition interventions in food systems is still an emerging method. This review explores and summarizes the application of value chain analysis to nutrition and from this provides five insights into how to more effectively conduct value chain analysis for nutrition: 1) use a consumer perspective to inform selection of foods and chains; 2) consider the research question, available resources, and the type of chain; 3) situate consumer research at the center of the analysis; 4) assess economic trade-offs; and 5) pay attention to governance and stakeholders' capacity for and incentives to change.

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Section: Consumption-oriented Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing food value chains for nutrition goals

Morgan

Hawkes

Dangour

et al. 2018

Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition

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“…Supply chain challenges in the consumer goods sector were addressed in [62] and [63] to improve two particular processes in the wine and agri-food industry, respectively. The success of value stream mapping is, for example, also demonstrated in product development phases [64], logistical system design [65], software development [66], and service industries [67], so that the universality of this lean technique is worthy of note.…”

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Value Stream Analysis in Military Logistics: The Improvement in Order Processing Procedure

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Military logistics is a complex process where response times, demand uncertainty, wide variety of material references, and cost-effectiveness are decisive for combat capability. The demanding flexibility can only be achieved by improving supply chain management (SCM) to minimize lead times. To cope with these requirements, lean thinking can be extended to military organizations. This research justifies and proposes the use of lean methodologies to improve logistics processes with the case study of a military unit. In particular, the article presents the results obtained using value stream mapping (VSM) and value stream design (VSD) tools to improve the order processing lead time of spare items. The procedure starts with an order generation from a military unit that requests the material and ends before transportation to the final destination. The whole project was structured, considering the define-measure-analyze-improve-control (DMAIC) problem-solving methodology. The results show that the future state map might increase added-value activities from 44% to 70%. After implementation, it was demonstrated that the methodology applied reduced the lead-time average and deviation up to 69.6% and 61.9%, respectively.Appl. Sci. 2020, 10, 106 2 of 17 in the supply chain reliability by synchronizing each element internally and externally, forecasting the demand and managing inventories and assets efficiently.To minimize response times and to assure the required flexibility avoided wastes, the lean philosophy can be extended to supply chain management in military organizations. For example, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has been working intensively together with service providers and supporting contractors to introduce and apply lean principles into their organizations to optimize internal lead times [7]. The origin of lean philosophy is generally attributed to the practices developed from the TPS or Toyota Production System [8,9], pioneered by Taiichi Ohno [10] and Shigeo Shingo [11]. Their lean principles related to philosophy, processes, people, partners, and problem-solving allow organizations the implementation of lean thinking at different levels. Moreover, TPS has influenced not only manufacturing concepts but also supply chain management ones [12][13][14]. The concept of lean supply is described in [15,16] as an operating attitude that needs to be changed in relation to suppliers so that the effect of associated costs to non-perfect processes will not be limited to the location of the execution. This approach targets long-term customer satisfaction. Thus, supply chain optimization is possible according to the three main TPS goals: best quality, lowest cost, and shortest lead-time, which are achieved by continuous improvement and increasing operations' added value.This work evaluates the use of lean methodologies and their application to military logistics functions, focusing on supply chain management processes for spare parts. We present a case study to improve military material order processing pr...

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“…Algunas se centran en el análisis en varios sectores (predominando la manufactura) (Makwana & Patange, 2019;Romero & Arce, 2017;Shou et al, 2017;Singh et al, 2011). Otras se centran en sectores concretos diferentes del sanitario (De Steur et al, 2016) y no son específicas de VSM sino de producción ajustada en general (Rafique et al, 2019;Syltevik et al, 2018), o generalistas de producción ajustada pero del sector sanitario (Gitlow et al, 2013;Poksinska, 2010). También hemos localizado revisiones centradas en el sector farmacéutico (Heinzen et al, 2015).…”

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Protocol: Value Stream Maping in Healthcare. A systematic literature review

Marín-García

Vidal-Carreras

Sabater

et al. 2019

Work. pap. oper. manag.

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Until 2016, very few works had investigated the use of the VSM. With this research, we will discover if the situation has changed in the last 3 years. In the lean manufacturing context, different techniques that help the continuous improvement process can be used () that aims to promote research transparency and replication. The concepts investigated in it are defined (VSM and health services sector), a research niche is justified, and the search and codification procedure of the systematic literature review is established. Although there are different versions of the VSM (Dinis-WPOM, Vol 10 Nº2 (36-54) 37 specialists, hospitals, referral centers for rare diseases, and geriatric or disability care). We wish to explore the use in organizations of any country worldwide whose ownership is public, private or a nonprofit foundation. We will focus on patient health services. We will not include the pharmaceutical industry or the operation of governmental or nongovernmental public health structures (e.g. ministries, the Red Cross or similar). Different literature reviews on the VSM have been published. Some focus on analyzing several sectors, predominantly manufacturing. Previous research seems to indicate that the VSM allows the transparency of the process to improve by making it much more understandable for the agents involved in it (Shou et al., 2017;Vidal-Carreras et al., 2015); reduce process times (lead times) (Shou et al., 2017) and inventories (Shou et al., 2017). However, these results come mostly from repetitive manufacturing contexts (linked to the automotive or consumer electronics sectors, or their auxiliary industries), and normally from Anglo-Saxon countries. There do not seem to be enough publications in order to generalize these results to all kinds of contexts. Some publications reveal that the barriers from using such tools can overcome facilitators in public service contexts (Marin-Garcia et al., 2018b). Very few reviews have focused specifically on the VSM and the health services sector (Nowak et al., 2017;Vidal-Carreras et al., 2015). Both conclude that there is not enough material to provide evidence for and a conclusive answer to our research questions. The systematic review that we propose in this protocol intends to answer (in a future publication) the following questions: 1) what is the VSM research gap that applies to the health services sector that currently exists?; 2) is the VSM being used in hospitals or other health centers?; 3) what VSM version is common in health sector publications?; 4) collect examples of the VSM in hospitals/heath centers; 5) how was the VSM used in the hospitals/health centers that have applied it?; 6) what problems and/or difficulties have arisen while drawing the VSM or after drawing it? Different programs will be used for the bibliometric analysis (see details in Marin-Garcia and Alfalla-Luque (2019)). First, the R Bibliometrix package (Aria & Cuccurullo, 2017;Garfield, 2004;Wulff Barreiro, 2007) and also the suitability of SciMAT (Cobo et al., 2012;Santana & Lo...

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Applying Value Stream Mapping to reduce food losses and wastes in supply chains: A systematic review

Cited by 123 publications

References 83 publications

Analyzing food value chains for nutrition goals

Analyzing food value chains for nutrition goals

Value Stream Analysis in Military Logistics: The Improvement in Order Processing Procedure

Protocol: Value Stream Maping in Healthcare. A systematic literature review

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