Lean performance evaluation of dairy cow farming processes with mathematical model development

Abstract

Management sciences, especially controlling, are undergoing extensive changes. Various mathematical-statistical and IT solutions help organizations develop their systems and extract relevant information from data structures, thereby supporting effective decision-making and organizational operations. Agriculture is a special sector, but management functions apply here too, and modern tools and methods support the implementation of efficient operations. Dairy farming is a particularly important sector in agriculture, where controlling systems are developed in response to special requirements. The controlling activity of the sector is significantly influenced by the development of digitalization, which has resulted in the monitoring of processes and organizational performance evaluation becoming more extensive and detailed. Lean management is also an excellent method for increasing the efficiency of processes and organizational performance in the agricultural sector, which can be used to optimize processes, identify unnecessary activities and ensure appropriate task control. In this way, controlling systems must take into account the importance of lean management and contribute to the performance evaluation of organizational lean. In our study, we develop a lean performance evaluation model through an extended case study, which is suitable for evaluating the lean performance of the examined dairy farm. We used a fuzzy triangular function to evaluate the performance of enterprises, which represents the value of the given parameter with a triangular distribution. With dynamically growing and usable data, the model is able to provide continuous feedback on organizational lean operation and possible intervention points.