Lean Production on Chili Pepper Supply Chain Using Value Stream Mapping

Implementation of a Lean Model for Carrying out Value Stream Mapping in a Manufacturing Industry

Value Stream Mapping technique involves flowcharting the steps, activities, material flows, communications, and other process elements that are involved with a process or transformation. In this respect, Value stream mapping helps an organization to identify the non-value-adding elements in a targeted process and brings a product or a group of products that use the same resources through the ma...

Integrating Work Environment Considerations Into Lean and Value Stream Mapping

Lean supply chain: learning from the Toyota Production System

How did Toyota achieve its success? It all started with the first President of Toyota Motor Corporation, Kiichiro Toyoda, who set up the company's objective “to use small lot size with cheaper vehicles to compete with the cost of American motor companies by continuously reducing cost through waste elimination”. The second president, Eiji Toyoda, went further to improve Toyota's manufacturing pr...

Lean and agile supply chain

With the real-time access to the Internet and search engines like Google and with the increased global competition, customers have more power than ever before. They demand innovative product features, greater speed, more product variety, dependable performance and quality at a best in class and at a competitive price. Furthermore, today’s discerning consumers expect fulfilment of demand almost ...

Using Lean Value Stream Mapping to Align the Work Streams of Two Companies

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a tool used in lean operations. Existing cases show how it has been used to launch a Lean organization or trigger large improvements, but there is little information on its use in merging the work streams of two discrete companies. This paper will discuss this approach.