O lean manufacturing aplicado em uma empresa do setor de hortifrúti do Estado da Bahia

Abstract

With the new challenges of modern organizations, their survival depends on their ability to make continuous improvements. One of these tools used as a form of strategy to optimize your processes is Lean Manufacturing or Lean Manufacturing. Lean Manufactururing can be applied to any company, but no theoretical reference has been found on the application in hortifruti company. In this case study Lean Manufacturing was applied to a hortifruti distributor, a real organization, with all its virtues, defects and peculiarities, aiming to improve its management system. In order to carry out this work, we used the combination of the methodological procedures of exploratory research techniques and case study with the purpose of elucidating and facilitating the understanding of the theme. The first step of this work was to identify the variables in order to describe the Lean culture and diagnose the organization, thus constructing the study instrument. And the second step was to carry out the survey of the data to prove that despite all the challenges it is possible to implement such culture in a company of the distribution branch of hortifrutis.