Modeling Lean and Agile Approaches: A Western Canadian Forest Company Case Study
department or school: Forestry, Faculty of
department or school: Non UBC
data provider: DSpace
identifier citation: Forests 9 (9): 529 (2018)
creator: Vergara, Francisco P.
creator: Palma, Cristian D.
creator: Nelson, John
issued: 2019-06-18T22:12:55Z
issued: 2018-08-31
description: In the forest supply chain of the coast of British Columbia, the material flows are directed toward the push production of commodity products. This industry has not adopted lean and agile principles due to unclear economic impacts on the supply chain in changing market conditions. We tested the ability of lean and agile principles to improve performance in the coastal integrated forest industry. Mixed integer programming formulations were subject to over–under production capacity, and over–under demand fulfillment penalties to emulate agile, lean, and hybrid manufacturing environments, when solving the planning problem. Assuming that the coastal integrated forest industry performs as a hybrid environment, the profit results of each manufacturing environment were judged. The results show that, opportunities for profit improvement were 11% for adopting an agile environment when demand was stable with low variation and large batches of production. However, profit improvement was non-existent when the same demand attributes apply but with high variation. The opportunities for profit improvement were 12% when an agile environment or lean environment was adopted when demand was stable with low variation and small batches of production. However, opportunities for profit improvements of 15% existed for adopting an agile environment when demand was unstable with high variation and small batches of production.
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note: ArticleModeling Lean and Agile Approaches: A WesternCanadian Forest Company Case StudyFrancisco P. Vergara 1,*, Cristian D. Palma 2 ID and John Nelson 31 Faculty of Engineering, Department of Wood Engineering, Universidad del Bío-Bío,Concepcion 4030000, Chile2 Facultad de Ingeniería, Centro de Investigación en Sustentabilidad y Gestión Estratégica de Recursos,Universidad del Desarrollo, Concepcion 4030000, Chile; cristianpalma@ingenieros.udd.cl3 Forestry Faculty, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4, Canada; john.nelson@ubc.ca* Correspondence: fvergara@ubiobio.cl; Tel.: +56-41-311-1370Received: 17 August 2018; Accepted: 24 August 2018; Published: 31 August 2018Abstract: In the forest supply chain of the coast of British Columbia, the material flows aredirected toward the push production of commodity products. This industry has not adopted leanand agile principles due to unclear economic impacts on the supply chain in changing marketconditions. We tested the ability of lean and agile principles to improve performance in the coastalintegrated forest industry. Mixed integer programming formulations were subject to over–underproduction capacity, and over–under demand fulfillment penalties to emulate agile, lean, and hybridmanufacturing environments, when solving the planning problem. Assuming that the coastalintegrated forest industry performs as a hybrid environment, the profit results of each manufacturingenvironment were judged. The results show that, opportunities for profit improvement were 11%for adopting an agile environment when demand was stable with low variation and large batchesof production. However, profit improvement was non-existent when the same demand attributesapply but with high variation. The opportunities for profit improvement were 12% when an agileenvironment or lean environment was adopted when demand was stable with low variation and smallbatches of production. However, opportunities for profit improvements of 15% existed fo…
has type: Article
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0379478
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/f9090529
rights: CC BY 4.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
scholar level: Faculty
subject: Forest-to-lumber
subject: Supply chain
subject: Planning
subject: Lean
subject: Agile
subject: Hybrid
subject: Mathematical programming
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/70701