(The Performance Improvement of Service Industry Supply Chain: A Case Study of Hotel in Sukhothai Province)
Keywords:
Value stream mapping, Supply chain management, ECRS technique, Why why analysisAbstract
Abstract
Hotel’s service industry has an important role toward economy and basic structures of transportation and tourism. Due to recent in competitive condition, hotel businesses must adapt and change in order to satisfy market’s needs by using internal resources of the organization to create usefulness and high efficiency. This study applied VSM technique to analyze and compare waste in Logistic management and hotel supply chain of two hotels as case studies in Sukhothai province, which were independent hotel and chain hotel along with applying Why Why Analysis and ECRS technique to improve efficiency by doing fieldwork to collect data, observing, and interviewing. The results after improving Hotels’ Logistics’ efficiency found that; case study 1 could reduce two NVA activities, which saved 7.15 minutes and was counted as 3.94% decrease, and one NNVA activity, which saved 5.10 minutes and was counted as 1.37% increase. This caused VA activity to increase for 1.37%; case study 2 could reduce two NVA activities and saved 5.20 minutes, which was counted as 0.31% decrease. This caused NNVA and VA activities to increase for 0.32% and 0.01% accordingly.
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