Citation :

Christian Gabriel Noronha-Linares, Benjamin Misael Valencia-Santa-Cruz, Richard Nicholas Meza-Ortiz, 2025. "Enhancing Delivery Performance through Lean Logistics: Lessons from a Paint Manufacturing SME in Peru" ESP International Journal of Science, Humanities & Management Studies(ESP-IJSHMS)  Volume 3, Issue 1: 35-45.

Abstract :

Like other emerging industries, the production of paint within emerging economies is plagued by unrelenting production, resource, and scheduling difficulties. Previous research has focused on undoing a small and medium-sized enterprise’s (SME’s) resource productivity waste through Lean Logistics; They, however, failed to demonstrate this empirically. My work closes these gaps through the application of a Lean Logistics framework in a Peruvian SME focused on process standardization coupled with a streamlined inventory system. Primary efforts centered on the development of standardized work instructions for order forecasting and employing the EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) model for inventory management. The model produced significant results by improving OTD (On Time Delivery) from 50.75% to 68.67%, increasing production capacity by 30.21%, and decreasing stockout-related downtime by 64%. These results confirm the model's claims on production flow optimization and supply chain reliability enhancement while underscoring the need to broaden Lean Logistics study focus to resource-scarce manufacturing settings.

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Keywords :

Lean Logistics, Production Optimization, Paint Manufacturing, SMEs, Inventory Management.