Cardiff Business School Food Process Innovation Unit

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• Cardiff Business School Food Process
  Innovation Unit

David Simons, David Taylor, Kate Bailey,Alex Kiff
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Key Themes
Humanitarian Aid
Key Themes
Lean Value Chains
Future Food Security
Sustainable Development
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Lean Thinking Philosphy

• The lean term was coined in 1990 by Jim Womack
  and Dan Jones The Machine that Changed the
  World
• It has evolved from the Toyota Production System
  which changed Toyota from a small domestic
  producer to one of the worlds most efficient
  producers in only 20 years
• Lean focuses on maximising consumer value while
  eliminating waste
• Key component of Lean thinking is lead-time
  reduction
• Lean operates both at a shop floor and
  strategic level developed as a set of overall
  guiding principles for business and supply chain
  management

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Future Food Supply
Changes in global production patterns
Competition over natural resources
Consumer behaviour
Increasing global demand
Climate change
Increasing trade
Technological innovation
Pressures for change
UK Food supply network
New structure New behaviours
Transition phase

• Joint project with Chatham House
• Use of scenarios to examine the effects of
  global influences on the UK food supply system

Research Theme Contact baileyk2_at_cardiff.ac.uk
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Sustainable Development .

• Business Focus
• Looking for synergies between economic,
  environmental and social pillars not the
  problems!
• Regulation is in silos transport, industry,
  domestic
• Supply Chain is a process- Evaluate Benefits and
  Costs along product path

Research Theme Contact simonsdw_at_cardiff.ac.uk
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Food Value Chain Analysis
Value adding

• 5 of time in the chain is spent on activities
  the consumer wants to pay for
• Lean focuses on eliminating the other 95

• FPIU have facilitated 33 Value Chains
• Biggest Programme ever
• Several companies report millions gains

Non-value adding
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Lean Value Chains
Value Chain Analysis
Team Build Lean Familiarisation Construct big
picture map
Month 1
Continuous Improvement within each facility Small
Events with tangible benefits
Develop Lean Capability
Month 2-6
Future State
Develop Future State Map KPIs, and Actions
Month 7
Monitor KPIs and implement value chain
wide Action plans
Value Chain Implementation
Month 8-12
Company wide training Further processes and
products
Embed
Month 13 -24
Research Theme Contact simonsdw_at_cardiff.ac.uk
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Humanitarian Aid

• The Need
• Humanitarian disasters increasing
• HA supply chains increasingly recognised as
  inefficient
• The Aims
• To apply lean principles and value chain
  improvement techniques to humanitarian supply
  chains
• To reduce the cost of HA chains, increase the
  efficiency and ensure more aid reaches the
  beneficiaries

Research Theme Contact taylordh_at_cardiff.ac.uk
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• Cardiff Business School Food Process
  Innovation Unit

• Aberconway Building
• Colum Drive
• Cardiff CF10 3EU
• Tel [phone]
• http//www.cardiff.ac.uk/carbs/lom/FPIU