Application of Lean Concept to Logistics Management of Warehouse in Oil and Gas Industry, Songkhla Province
Keywords:
Warehouse, Lean, WasteAbstract
The objective of this research reduce the total waste from the production process by studying and analysing the inventory operation process including receiving of goods, stocking of goods, checking inventory until distributing to offshore operations base.
The research was conducted from collecting information from warehouse management process in order to understand all the working flow and be able to analyse any gap of waste in the working process. The researcher applied the lean concept and flow charts in order to identify the waste in the current working process.
The result shown that there are three problems in waste management of inbound and outbound logistic activities including receiving, counting, picking and dispatch. The researcher and representative sample conducted brainstorming session to analyse information of waste management actions in inventory for developing warehouse management production process through setting policy and measure. The results as following; 1) Receiving process 10.97% decrease of waste process from duplicate activities, 57% decrease of waste process from waiting activities, 90% decrease of waste process from transportation and 93% decrease of waste process from overproduction. 2) Counting process 43% decrease of waste process from duplicate activities and 75% decrease of waste process from overproduction. 3) Picking process: there is not defect of wrong picking goods.
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