Waste Identification and Elimination Using Lean Methods in Receiving Process: A Case Study at PT IPC Container Terminal

Lean is a management philosophy and methodology used to improve quality and reduce waste. This paper aims to identify and eliminate waste using lean methods at PT IPC Container Terminal. Tanjung Priok Port. Current Value Stream Mapping (VSM) of receiving process was developed to shows all processes and activities, It is identified there are 6 processes with total of 37 activities in receiving process of Tanjung Priok Port. Based on the results of Value Stream Mapping (VSM), a questionnaire of Value-Added Assessment (VAA) is developed to classify activities into Value Added (VA), Non-Value Added (NVA), or Necessary Non-Value Added (NNVA). Then the results of VAA was analyzed using 7 waste of analysis. The results of this paper show that it is identified there are 9 activities of Non-value Added, and 3 activities of Necessary Non-Value Added (NNVA).