Usaha Mikro, Kecil, dan Menengah (UMKM) terbukti memiliki kemampuan untuk merespon krisis keuangan. Hal ini membuktikan bahwa UMKM merupakan bagian penting dari perekonomian suatu negara. Kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat bertujuan mempelajari bagaimana bahan baku dikelola dalam rantai pasok industri kerajinan tas yang berada di wilayah Kabupaten Serang Provinsi Banten, serta memberikan pen...

An ex-Toyota internal consultant has expressed an opinion that companies are achieving only 10% of their potential for process improvement. In the consultant’s words, “most manufacturing seems to be focused on achieving a 35–40 percent productivity gain over three to five years, when they should actually be focusing on a 400 percent improvement.” Many manufacturing companies have exhausted gain...

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a value-based improvement approach that eliminates losses and processing time maximizes value added time, contributing to enhanced performance effectiveness. In this context, paper introduces VSM as different method for restaurant industry an overall perception output flow through differentiating wastes, improving cycle reduction assessing the final service. For pu...

Market positioning, i.e., the competitiveness of European shipyards, depends a lot on measures continuously improving business processes, therefore meeting criteria environmental protection and sustainable energy. Lean management enables ongoing improvements all system processes by recognizing removing unnecessary costs same, those activities which do not contribute to added value for customer....