Lean Manufacturing was developed by Toyota Motor company to address their specific needs in a restricted market in times of economic trouble. These concepts have been studied and proven to be transferrable and applicable to a wide variety of industries. This paper aims to integrate a set of metrics that have been proposed by different authors in such a way that they are consistent with the different stages and elements of Lean Manufacturing implementations. To achieve this, two frameworks for Lean implementations are presented and then the main factors for success are used as the basis to propose metrics that measure the advance in these factors. A tabular display of the impact of “Lean activities” on the metrics is presented, proposing that many a priori assumptions about the benefits on many different levels of improvement should be accurate. Finally, some ideas for future research and extension of the applications proposed on this paper are presented as closing points.
Se presenta una metodología para la gestión de los riesgos operacionales en una compañía proveedora de servicios logísticos, particularmente para los servicios de transporte y almacenamiento. Según informes nacionales e internacionales, estos servicios son los que más se subcontratan en la actualidad. La metodología desarrollada utiliza una lista de chequeo para la identificación de los riesgos, y la matriz de probabilidad e impacto, además del análisis jerárquico difuso (fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, AHP) para la priorización de los mismos. La metodología ha sido validada en una empresa 3PL colombiana (servicios de logística tercerizados) encontrándose que los riesgos más relevantes son delitos como robos y actos terroristas. También aparecen otros problemas tales como las huelgas y los defectos técnicos en el transporte terrestre de las mercancías y el robo de la mercancía, desastres naturales y deterioro en el almacenamiento. Esta metodología le permite a la organización emprender acciones para minimizar los riesgos que mayor impacto tienen en los resultados globales de la organización.
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