Optimización de Procesos mediante Value Stream Mapping en Empresas Dedicadas a la Crianza y Producción de Pollos de Engorde

This case study shows how a company in the poultry sector manages to optimize one of its main processes through the application of lean manufacturing methodologies. The guiding research focused specifically on the chicken management process of one of the company's existing progenies, evaluating critical factors that will influence the effectiveness of the application of a key tool among lean methodologies: the identification and implementation of value stream maps. Broadly speaking, the main premise seeks to direct the reader on how, under a focus on the system constraints, the company adequately adjusted its VSM, dissected its process and equitably and efficiently distributed its poultry houses to significantly reduce the emerging times between its different operations or process steps and optimize the flow in turn in these. This document is of a quantitative, qualitative and comparative analytical nature, from a descriptive methodological perspective of a case study type. It describes the technical problem of the oppressive stagnation in the production lines in fattening farms, relates the theoretical component together with the operation sequence discussed during the field work, establishes the object of the research and makes a comparative study of the continuous process of the target company versus its competitors. Among the contributions to the literature, it synthesizes the characteristic way of life of breeding farms in Colombia, emphasizing mainly the management and application of work scheduling to their productions through operational cycles that may well lead them to live two stages of their development with different scenarios.