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    Green lean practices towards increasing operation value of manufacturing company
    (Penerbit UTHM, 2020)
    Ahmad Nur Aizat Ahmad
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    Md Fauzi Ahmad
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    Norhadilah Abdul Hamid
    ;
    Yunos Ngadiman
    ;
    Mohamed Ismail Pakir
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    Gusman Nawanir
    ;
    Adnan Bakri
    ;
    Mustaqqim Abdul Rahim
    Nowadays, manufacturing industries are rapidly developing. However the constraints faced by today's producers are how to produce their products quickly through low costs while at the same time, the reduction of waste disposal in the environment. The high waste of time in the manufacturing industry is often attributed to the wastage that occurred in the company’s operations. Lean manufacturing is linked for improving the standard working. It is one of the production strategies that drive the industry towards a more efficient production of goods and services. Meanwhile, green manufacturing has been adopted as a requirement to achieve a minimal negative impact on the environment. The green lean is a concept to make sure system more efficient, reduce unwanted product releases and minimize the environmental impact. So, the main objective of this research is to reduce cycle time in manufacturing company by adopting green lean elements. This research focuses on furniture manufacturing and conducted a structural interview question, observation and time study method. To refine those time operation problems, the company had implemented the new green lean practices into the operation department. The results after implement these methods totally show an improved progress. The paper would help the manufacturer to organize and improve their company performance. In conclusion, this research is about to identify and reduce the time waste to improve the operation value of the manufacturing company while at the same time it would reduce the environmental impact in future.
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    Improving the warehouse operation by implementing lean warehousing
    (AIP Publishing Ltd., 2023)
    Ahmad Nur Aizat Ahmad
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    Md Fauzi Ahmad
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    Norhadilah Abdul Hamid
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    Lee Tee Chuan
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    Mohd Kamarul Irwan Abdul Rahim
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    Gusman Nawanir
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    Adnan Bakri
    ;
    Mustaqqim Abdul Rahim
    The growing interest of customers towards online shopping have given a good impact to the e-commerce platform nowadays especially during this pandemic which have a strict limitation of movement among citizen in Malaysia. However, some issue regarding the courier services have arisen regarding the poor service quality that customers received recently and some issue related to warehouse operation arises in certain situation such as product delay, product defects, and short space for inventory placement which create lower productivity and service performance. In order to overcome this situation, this study identified the implementation of lean warehousing in improving service productivity performance in courier company. This research will be focusing on the courier services company that available in Malaysia Delivery Express X is selected as it is one of the courier services that frequently used by customers as a platform to delivers their parcels. This research been conducted using qualitative method which the data been collected by interviewing the respondent and the data gathered is analyzed using Arena Simulation Software. The finding shows what is the best alternative used to improve the service productivity performance of courier service. From this research, the courier service industry can make use of the finding for future purposes and future researcher can explore more about the lean warehousing in courier service industry. Its shows the reduction of time from the research is 8.2% improvement.