Reducing Food Waste Through Lean and Sustainable Operations: A Case Study From the Poultry Industry

Kazançoğlu, Yiğit; Ekinci, Esra; Ozen, Yesim Deniz Ozkan; Özbiltekin-Pala, Melisa

doi:10.1590/s0034-759020210503

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“…These data bring a huge concern, considering the need to rethink the forms of production and consumption due to the limitation of natural resources. According to [49], food waste is increasing worldwide, requiring urgent and necessary actions to mitigate this practice. In addition, challenges regarding food demand, due to the increase in the population on the planet, become increasingly urgent, putting a brake on food waste.…”

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Management Food Waste in Municipality Schools: An Analysis from a Circular Economy Perspective

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Background: Food waste is a situation that triggers certain controversy, considering that there is still a significant number of people who do not have access to healthy and nutritious food every day. The management of food leftovers from school lunches depends on the creation of measurement mechanisms. Thus, current characteristics of schools should be identified in order to mitigate and better manage these leftovers. This study addresses this gap, that is, it seeks to understand how food waste management is carried out in schools from a circular economy perspective. Methods: Focusing on the management of school lunches in municipal schools, this study aims to build an inductive interpretive theory in order to understand how schools promote food waste management. Results: Loss estimates and their monetization were identified and explained, and alternatives for waste recovery using the ReSOLVE framework were proposed. Conclusions: Therefore, it was assumed that the perspective of circularity is a possible and viable way to manage food waste in school lunches. Stakeholder engagement and awareness raising become necessary premises for success in the food circularity journey.

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Management Food Waste in Municipality Schools: An Analysis from a Circular Economy Perspective

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“…In the agro-industry, there is a need for global agriculture to increase its productivity by at least 60% by 2050 to meet food demand (Benyam et al, 2021). An alternative to soften this scenario would be to reduce food waste; once, approximate data indicate that 30-50% of food production is wasted for several reasons (Kazancoglu et al, 2021). Estimates point out that 28% are lost at the end of the production process, 22% are during management and storage, 17% are in the distribution market (wholesale) and 28% in final consumers (The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation-Embrapa, 2022).…”

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Lean 4.0 in the value co‐creation in agro‐industrial services: An agenda for future studies for the efficient resource use

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Over the last few years, the Lean 4.0 concept has emerged and gained prominence on the world stage for waste and efficient natural resources management, once including the Lean thinking philosophy for management and technologies from Industry 4.0 for supporting and sharing data and information among the actors in the supply chain. This new management technic allows reorganizes the business process and stimulates the circular supply chain based on intelligent services and sharing data, information and know‐how among the actors in production systems. However, it is not clear in the current literature that the opportunities are linked to the relationship between Lean 4.0 and the efficient use of resources in the agro‐industrial environment. Based on the exposure, this paper intends to show an agenda for future research linked to Lean 4.0 in the value co‐creation in agro‐industrial services. We identified five topics for future research that are related to Lean 4.0 for efficient resource use.

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“…They conducted a case study in poultry farms to present tools and techniques. Furthermore, Kazancoglu et al (2021) applied lean thinking by using value stream mapping (VSM) to eliminate food waste caused in the poultry sector. On the other hand, Real-Dominguez et al (2021) proposed a model that integrates two important lean tools, 5S and total productive maintenance (TPM), for productivity improvement in a poultry processing plant.…”

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“…They conducted a case study in poultry farms to present tools and techniques. Furthermore, Kazancoglu et al. (2021) applied lean thinking by using value stream mapping (VSM) to eliminate food waste caused in the poultry sector.…”

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A solution approach proposal with a lean perspective for the poultry sector with WRM and BWM integration

Kiran,

Ozkan-Ozen,

Ozturkoglu

2023

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PurposeThis study aims to analyze lean wastes for the poultry sector in Turkey and link lean tools to this study, focusing on identifying each lean waste that affects poultry production and proposing solutions for preventing these lean wastes in the sector. The proposed solutions aim to improve processes by suggesting different lean tools and their applications for the poultry sector.Design/methodology/approachThe study consists of two different applications. First, the waste relationship matrix (WRM) was created to reveal the relationship between seven lean wastes and their importance order. Then, after determining lean tools for eliminating lean wastes, the optimum weight ranking and consistency ratio of the most suitable lean tools were calculated for these wastes and ranked with the best-worst method (BWM).FindingsResults showed that overproduction is the most critical waste that impacts other wastes, followed by defect waste. Due to the nature of the sector, these wastes not only result in economic loss for the company but also in food waste and loss and issues related to animal welfare. Furthermore, the Kaizen approach and 5S implementation are the methods to eliminate these wastes. Detailed discussion on the link between lean tools and lean wastes is provided for the poultry sector.Originality/valueThis is the first study that theoretically and empirically identifies the potential lean waste affecting the poultry sector and provides lean tools for eliminating these wastes. Sector-specific explanations and discussions are presented in the study to show the applicability of lean approaches in the poultry sector to eliminate waste. In addition, this study is the first to integrate the WRM and BWM.

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Reducing Food Waste Through Lean and Sustainable Operations: A Case Study From the Poultry Industry

Cited by 7 publications

References 55 publications

Management Food Waste in Municipality Schools: An Analysis from a Circular Economy Perspective

Management Food Waste in Municipality Schools: An Analysis from a Circular Economy Perspective

Lean 4.0 in the value co‐creation in agro‐industrial services: An agenda for future studies for the efficient resource use

A solution approach proposal with a lean perspective for the poultry sector with WRM and BWM integration

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