Identification Material Distribution Process to Improve Material Handling Performance Using Risk Matrix Analysis (Case Study at Paper Manufacturing)

Abstract

Material handling activities within a company have a very important role, especially in warehousing activities ranging from the process of receiving goods, storing goods to product distribution. To reduce the waste that occurs in material handling, a lean manufacturing approach is used with the Value Stream Mapping (VSM) method for mapping the flow of material handling activities and the flow of information on material handling activities. Waste that occurs in the material handling work process in the printing sheets area includes waiting, excess processing, and transportation. With Root Cause Analysis and Risk Matrix, it is known that the most influential root causes of waste are inadequate human resources, material handling tools in preparing goods and process break quantity from standard pallets, and distribution of areas far from the printing sheets warehouse area. Recommendations for improvement proposals offered are, providing additional material handlers, material handling tools for activities within one department by considering distance and time, reducing break quantity requests and temporary locations for receiving printing sheets in the production area, as well as collaborating with suppliers to arrange the arrival schedule of printing sheets material by communicating and updating regularly with the forwarder if the frequency of delays is too frequent. So that if it is repaired and applied it will improve the performance of the material handling.

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“…In addition to this, it is important to maintain an established order in the warehouses, in order to reduce the picking time of the products, so it is necessary to perform a good inventory control (Camacho-Obregón et al, 2022) and (Abad-Morán et al, 2021). Because of this, the Lean Warehousing tool is used in conjunction with the 5'S and ABC tools (Camacho-Obregón et al, 2022) and (Sugito et al, 2021).…”

“…SMEs face the great challenge of optimizing and innovating their business processes so that they can gain business advantages in a highly competitive market (Aversano et al, 2016), (Castellano Lendínez, 2019 and (Viriyasitavat & Hoonsopon, 2019). BPM uses design tools, techniques and management methods to identify, analyze, execute and nurture processes, increasing the service level of SMEs (Figueroa-Rivera et al, 2022), (Sugito et al, 2021), (Castro et al, 2019) and (Villacrez-Zelada et al, 2022). In addition, to ensure a good optimization of processes, the digitization of inventories is used to automate them in a technological way (Molnár et al, 2021), (Castro et al, 2019) and (Viriyasitavat & Hoonsopon, 2019).…”

“…The commercial performance of a company is measured according to the level of service. In the case of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this is directly associated with adequate inventory and warehouse management (Sugito et al, 2021). In a company in the commercial sector in Peru, which had a service level of 81.98%, generating unearned income of 98,780 soles, this was due to the shortage of materials, long cycle times and stock rupture (Pyroh et al, 2021).…”