(5) Standardization of the operations at the farm. For example, to reduce the variance in performance between poor and skilled stockman.
Historic records on this farm showed that the skilled stockman achieved piglet mortality rate four time lower than the poor stockman.
It was endeavored to standardize the skilled stockman’s operations for training of the new staff.
In order to understand the extent to which the key projects deliver the consumer value,
a “sanity check” against the supply chain KPI’s was carried out (Figure 3).
This approach is similar to the house-of-quality function of the QFD method (Akao, 1990).