Supply Management of Cullet Glass Bottle Processing Plant for Recycling

Abstract

          Independent study on supply management of glass cullet production focuses on the factory business of purchasing glass bottles and broken glass and study with a large operator in Ban Thumsub-district, Mueang district, Khon Kaen province which bought glass scrap and glass bottles from the sellers who collected and separated the color of the glass. This sample factory will be processed through the production process by the machine that was digested and sorted the contaminants until only the glass cullet were left to be the product, then sold to industrial operators to be melted and molded into packaging and recycled again. The purpose of this study was to find way for reducing time of receiving process that did not have value added during the work of the receiving department by benchmarking the best competency of the time spent in the trading process, used the least time to be a guideline to determine the standard time for posting the products of this sample factory. The study results showed that the problem of managing the processing time in receiving process was long or 50% of the total processing time.

          The results of the study on the guidelines for management of processing time to meet the set objectives by reducing the time for posting the products to 50% according to the conceptual framework to achieve the goals were found that the guideline can reduce the time by an average of 55% of the total processing time.