Standardizing and Improving the Container Flow

 12/12/2019
Productivity
By Dr. Alin Posteucă

In every manufacturing company there is a flow of container transport to the work places (tour and return). But often there are numerous losses & waste associated with delays and/ or non-compliant supplies of containers. The annual costs associated with these types of losses & waste, together with the annual lost profit opportunities are high and hidden. Not long ago, I made such a calculation at a section of a company and the total annual loss was over € 5 million (lower operating profit).

The specific causes of these losses & waste differ from one company to another. However, the standardization and improvement of leadtime of a container flow synchronized to production takt time must be a continuous concern to tend to the state of Just-In-Time (JIT). This standardization must take into account several elements such as: production plan, production capacity, warehouse capacity, domestic transport capacity, container capacity, supermarket capacity, the need for items on each shift, distances, speeds, stopping points, leveling box/ kanban box, set-up etc.

So, what are the main challenges of standardizing and improving the container flow?

Source: Alin Posteucă on LinkedIn

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Strategic productivity and profitability consultant and researcher, Alin Posteucă, Ph.D., Ph.D. is transforming the way companies approach their strategic transformation. With over 20 years of management consulting experience, Posteucă has created effective concepts such as Strategic Kaizen, Takt Profit, KAIZENshiro Budgets and Costing. His research on production flow has led to innovative breakthroughs in strategic and operational productivity improvement.

Posteucă's investigation into typologies of losses and waste has identified feasible improvements that can achieve the ideal state of production flow, known as Synchronous Profitable Operations (SPO). His Takt Profit model allows the optimization of production planning, transforming profit per minute into objectives for strategic improvements achieved through Strategic Kaizen projects.

Posteucă's research has led to increased effectiveness in strategic improvements and has set the stage for future productivity in the world of manufacturing technology. He is laureate of the Romanian Academy of the "Traian Vuia" Prize, the highest scientific prize in Romania.