Contents of Content
Introduction 1
Background Report 2
Waste Types 3
Overproduction 3
Inventory:. 3
Transportation: 4
Waiting: 4
Defects:. 5
Motion:. 5
Over processing:. 5
Waste Elimination strategy and Competitive Positioning 6
Business Policy for Lean Management 7
Just-In-Case 8
Waiting. 9
Transporting 9
Inappropriate Processing 10
Unnecessary Inventory 10
Weaknesses 10
Suggestion/Proposals 11
Reference 12
Introduction
Expansive stronghold similar to Toyota, Walmart and in addition numerous hospitality and commercial enterprises like hospitals (Ogyakrom Trauma Accident Hospital) have adopted thinking and process to effectively derived and implemented new tools and methodologies for the service industry (Marr What's more Parry, 2004).
In today’s ever increasing cutting edge competition in the service industry especially within health care delivery providers, going ‘Lean’ is one of the surest ways to maximize customer value while minimizing waste). Hospital (Womack & Jones, 1996) that practices lean management understands customer value and focuses its key processes on continuous improvement. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste.
The objective of this report is to clearly identify and suggest ways of eliminating the seven categories of waste that have engulf the Ogyakrom Trauma Accident Hospital operation in order to make them achieve competitive advantage within the hospitality industry.
Issues
Eliminating waste along the entire value streams, instead of at isolated points, creates processes that need less human effort, less space, less capital, and less time to make products and services at far less costs and with much fewer defects, compared with traditional business systems. Companies are able to respond to changing customer desires with high variety, high quality, low cost, and with very fast throughput times. Also, information management...