@inproceedings{036cc236bba04409ba2f2836ccd5353f,
title = "Towards improving public procurement process through lean principles: A case of the agricultural engineering division, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Namibia",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Lean principles, Namibia, public procurement process",
author = "F. Ndinamwene and M. Mutingi and C. Mbohwa and H. Mapfaira",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 2016 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2016 ; Conference date: 04-12-2016 Through 07-12-2016",
year = "2016",
month = dec,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798196",
language = "English",
series = "IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "1841--1845",
booktitle = "2016 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2016",
address = "United States",
}