Table Of Contents hide 1 A value stream map makes it easier to visualize the process that must be utilized to get value to the end customer. 2 A Snapshot of Your Business, a Look to the Future 3 VSM: What to Expect 4 What Can You Get Out of VSM? 5 Contact Incito Consulting Group 6 Want to learn more? Schedule a consultation. A value stream map makes it easier to visualize the process that must be utilized to get value to the end customer. Functional teams within your organization can visualize their group’s work and information flow so everyone can see it and have access to it. In turn, they can understand and improve the process flow for creating a particular product or service. In essence, a value stream map is basically a visual tool used to display all necessary steps in a process, and easily quantifies the time and effort that must be taken at every step. It shows the flow of both information and materials as they progress through the process. If you’re intrigued and want to learn more about value stream mapping as a leader within your organization, Enterprise Value Stream Mapping Workshops are critical tools that can help you achieve your goals. Within such a workshop, you can learn to effectively lead an Enterprise Value Stream Mapping session and complete a Current and Future State map so that you can design, schedule, and customize exactly what the customer wants when they want it. A Snapshot of Your Business, a Look to the Future At its core, Enterprise Value Stream Mapping takes a snapshot of your entire business, providing a holistic view, if you will, of the defining value as determined by the customer. This allows you to meet their needs at specific price points and at a specific times while still delivering optimal value. These maps are valuable in that they can identify all actions necessary to bring a specific good or service through key tasks while pinpointing crucial areas that must flow well. Put another way, value stream mapping (VSM) is a business management tool that outlines the steps necessary to take your project from inception to customer delivery, according to Forbes. You can wield this tool to breathe new life into established processes throughout your enterprise – revisiting processes that perhaps haven’t been working so well for you lately. With a visual aid such as this map, you can gain a better understanding of the flow of information as well as document procedures from beginning to end. Process improvement is what you’re after. This eye-opening process will show you just how much your current processes and methods waste time, duplicate effort and cause you to spend unnecessarily. VSM: What to Expect We can’t speak to any other workshops, but with Incito’s Enterprise Value Stream Mapping Workshop, you will learn how to: Conduct key performance indicator validation against future state value stream map Clearly define enterprise value stream managers and their specific roles. Conduct value stream mapping through the selection of key processes working in reverse. Identify the existing state of performance against your ideal performance requirements. Define and assess waste opportunities. Utilize a P.I.C.K. chart to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities designed to improve not only your competitive advantage but your financial performance as well. Develop a master schedule roadmap and milestones to ensure a stable future state. Determine sources of unevenness, overburdening and overall waste in order to establish process flow. Measure the current use of lean process methodologies and tools in relation to 5S. Prepare a future state map and gap analysis. What Can You Get Out of VSM? Value stream mapping (VSM) helps with: Visualizing and recognizing limiting factors in an organization. Illustrating and analyzing the flow of materials and the information needed to process them. Highlighting problems, losses and inefficiencies. Showing interaction between various functions within the manufacturing process along with related functions such as scheduling, production planning, and materials management. Monitoring and continuously improving lean processes. Developing and implementing countermeasures visually so as to facilitate culture change. Focusing direction on continuous improvement for the lean process transformation teams, front-line supervisors and upper managers. The benefits of value stream mapping are many, most notably as they help identify problems within a process sequence while addressing long-term solutions for output that is profitable and sustainable. Contact Incito Consulting Group To learn more about what to expect from Incito’s Enterprise Value Stream Mapping Workshop, please contact us at 866-697-LEAN or send us a message online. Want to learn more? Schedule a consultation. About how Incito can help transform your business and tackle your most important strategic challenges.
