Category: Keivan Zokaei

Saving Two Fully Laden Jumbo Jets Worth of Material at Greencore

Three case studies were put together by S A Partners and Keivan Zokaei at the Greencore Food to Go Manton Wood factory in the UK, which is the world’s largest and most sophisticated sandwich manufacturing facility. They produced more than three million sandwiches every week for supermarkets, convenience stores, garage forecourts and coffee shop chains.
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Lean and Green Improvement for the Whole Supply Chain

A large retail business was looking to reduce its environmental impact throughout the entire supply chain (from raw material production to product manufacturing to distribution and sales throughout the UK), and reached out to S A Partners and Keivan Zokaei for assistance, using their Lean and Green approach. They selected a single Stock Keeping Unit
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Saving the equivalent of 4.5 million bottles of milk at Arla Foods

Arla Foods UK supplies a full range of fresh dairy products to the major retailers and foodservice customers, such as Cravendale, Anchor, Lurpak and Tickler. The intervention team led by Keivan Zokaei began by looking at waste at a very high level through the creation of a mass balance (or system boundary map) of all
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Is Lean Green? Is This The Right Question?

In an article written in the Lean Management Journal in March 2010 (Issue 3, March/April), author Keivan Zokaei discusses how companies are making the connection between their Lean and continuous improvement and the sustainability movement driven by their customers, owners and employees. He makes the following statements: You can read the entire article at https://web.archive.org/web/20160815134541/http://leanandgreenbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Is-Lean-Green.pdf