Improving pharmaceutical warehouse supply chain lead time – From production to cross-docking
Bottlenecks and wastes are prevalent issues in warehouses, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry with large stock volumes. Value stream mapping (VSM) is a powerful lean instrument to detect value-adding and process efficient feasibilities in a production chain. It has the ability to connect al...
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| description | Bottlenecks and wastes are prevalent issues in warehouses, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry with large stock volumes. Value stream mapping (VSM) is a powerful lean instrument to detect value-adding and process efficient feasibilities in a production chain. It has the ability to connect all the stakeholders in the chain and manage customer demand. Optimum information and material flow are needed in a pharmaceutical warehouse supply chain without backlogs to avoid the supply chain lead time build-up. In this study, a pharmaceutical warehouse has been studied by dividing it into two major segments and the VSMs for both present state and future state were drawn to find out possible feasibility of lean implementation to improve the warehouse operations. There was a 20.22 % increase in the value-added time and 23.17 % decrease in the non-value added time based on the lean proposals and assumptions in the future state. But still, more quantifiable methods are needed to dynamically visualize the proposed lean tools in the supply chain. |
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| spelling | ump-375292023-08-23T07:13:18Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/37529/ Improving pharmaceutical warehouse supply chain lead time – From production to cross-docking Ahmed Zainul, Abideen Fazeeda, Mohamad HD Industries. Land use. Labor HD28 Management. Industrial Management T Technology (General) Bottlenecks and wastes are prevalent issues in warehouses, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry with large stock volumes. Value stream mapping (VSM) is a powerful lean instrument to detect value-adding and process efficient feasibilities in a production chain. It has the ability to connect all the stakeholders in the chain and manage customer demand. Optimum information and material flow are needed in a pharmaceutical warehouse supply chain without backlogs to avoid the supply chain lead time build-up. In this study, a pharmaceutical warehouse has been studied by dividing it into two major segments and the VSMs for both present state and future state were drawn to find out possible feasibility of lean implementation to improve the warehouse operations. There was a 20.22 % increase in the value-added time and 23.17 % decrease in the non-value added time based on the lean proposals and assumptions in the future state. But still, more quantifiable methods are needed to dynamically visualize the proposed lean tools in the supply chain. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2019-11 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/37529/1/Improving%20pharmaceutical%20warehouse%20supply%20chain%20lead%20time%20-%20From%20production%20to%20cross-docking.pdf pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/37529/2/Improving%20pharmaceutical%20warehouse%20supply%20chain%20lead%20time.pdf Ahmed Zainul, Abideen and Fazeeda, Mohamad (2019) Improving pharmaceutical warehouse supply chain lead time – From production to cross-docking. In: 2019 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technologies, CSUDET 2019; , 7-9 November 2019 , Penang. pp. 63-68. (9214732). ISBN 978-172813276-1 (Published) https://doi.org/10.1109/CSUDET47057.2019.9214732 |
| spellingShingle | HD Industries. Land use. Labor HD28 Management. Industrial Management T Technology (General) Ahmed Zainul, Abideen Fazeeda, Mohamad Improving pharmaceutical warehouse supply chain lead time – From production to cross-docking |
| title | Improving pharmaceutical warehouse supply chain lead time – From production to cross-docking |
| title_full | Improving pharmaceutical warehouse supply chain lead time – From production to cross-docking |
| title_fullStr | Improving pharmaceutical warehouse supply chain lead time – From production to cross-docking |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving pharmaceutical warehouse supply chain lead time – From production to cross-docking |
| title_short | Improving pharmaceutical warehouse supply chain lead time – From production to cross-docking |
| title_sort | improving pharmaceutical warehouse supply chain lead time – from production to cross-docking |
| topic | HD Industries. Land use. Labor HD28 Management. Industrial Management T Technology (General) |
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