8 Forms of Wastes In Lean Thinking
1.1 Definition the waste
In the supply chain, any link that does not add value to the customer is a waste. Waste only adds to time and cost.
The above definition of the 8 waste of Lean should be looked at as something that is directional and should always be kept in mind while taking up a Lean optimization project. These are also called Non-Value Added activities, many specialists think 95 percent of the time is spent on these Non-Value Added activities.
All the first seven waste can be discovered easily, the last waste usually show in the first 7 forms, and something looked from different ways, you can get different result, such as the finish goods inventory is waste from inventory waste way, but if cancel it may lead to waiting waste happen. What we can do to this 8 forms waste just to find the balance quantity to reduce the total waste.
