Towards improving public procurement process through lean principles: A case of the agricultural engineering division, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Namibia
Public administration is one of the major contracting bodies for Namibia's agricultural industry. This study makes a critical analysis of Namibia's public procurement process, based on a case study carried out at the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry. The research was done in three phase: direct discussion with the head of department and staff, document analysis and semi structure interviews with stakeholders. A detailed study was carried out on a single procurement of a farm machine in order to value stream map the public procurement process. Value stream mapping enabled the optimisation of the entire public procurement by reducing the number of sequential sub processes from 19 steps in 48 weeks to 12 steps in 26 weeks and restructure the whole process.
2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)