Ledtidsreducering genom värdeflödeskartläggning : Fallstudie på Humm Kombucha

Sammanfattning: Organizations striving to grow competitive in the market must today achieve or maintain high productivity, produce the right products, in the right quantity at the right time with high delivery precision to cope with it. By applying effective improvement tools, organizations can reduce lead times, thus achieving higher productivity and quality, which in the long run contributes to lead-time reduction and cost savings. Shorter lead times are today an efficiently competitive weapon, where organizations that hold this can respond faster to market demand and increase customer satisfaction. Over the years, there have been many improvement tools that manufacturing industries can use to reduce lead times. At present, there are few completed and published studies on the use of enhancement tools in just breweries. The purpose is to investigate whether breweries which are a process industry can embrace manufacturing industries' improvement tools and achieve its effects that contribute to lead-time reduction.The methodology that has been the basis for this study is an explanatory case study. Based on this methodology, an approach has naturally arisen, which is a deductive approach. In order to answer the purpose and questions, interviews were conducted which consisted of qualitative semi structured questions, observations in production and measurements of each process step at Humm Kombucha in Gavle. Based on the secondary literature study, improvement tools have been developed that have been successfully used to reduce lead times in manufacturing industries The conclusion that can be established is that breweries can embrace improvement tools and their effects adapted to manufacturing industries. The study has developed improvement suggestions and improvement tools that Humm Kombucha can use in production to eliminate bottlenecks, which in turn reduces lead times.