This report is designed to assist
NationaliTeas in becoming a more
sustainable company and to assist in becoming B Corp Certified the listing
below will help this organization to get a head start on this initiative.
Lean Manufacturing
:
The steps suggested could be removed with little
disruption to processing. Step B under farming is (Picked leaves are
weighted and grouped in to 50 lb. bag). Eliminating weighing bags at the
farm will speed up processing and the weight will be dispersed when the
leaves go through processing.
Step A and I under processing should also be eliminated., (Bags of tea are
reweighed at the processing facility and poor-quality leaves are thrown
away). The leaves are weighed in the last step at the farm and do not need
to be weighed again. It is costly to continue to weigh products that will be
oxidized and lose most of its water content before the final process is
complete. In step I there are two previous steps of evaluating the leaves and
throwing away poor-quality leaves and this step should be removed.
The final step to be evaluated for removal is in packaging and shipping step
C (Tea leaves are weighted). The leaves have already been weighed in
processing and again when they enter shipping. It is an unnecessary step to
keep weighing the leaves after they have completed processing multiple
times.
Sustainability
: When evaluating the sustainability of this process there are
several areas that
NationaliTeas could improve upon. One such process is
that when the tea leaves are damaged or in poor quality instead of disposing
of the unused not perfect tea leaves, they could be recycled as fertilizers.
Recycling the leaves would reduce waste for the entity of the company.
Recycling would reduce the cost of disposal and add quality to the nutrient
