Value Stream Mapping
Whenever there is a product for a customer, there is a value stream. The challenge lies in seeing it.
Many of our industry-leading clients have uncovered their greatest potential improvements through value stream mapping. Even "state-of-the-art" processes can hide waste in movement, poor communication, and unneeded inventory. Value stream mapping enables our clients to find the waste in every process, identify areas where processes are too complex or just flat-out counterproductive. Value Stream Mapping focuses your attention on the main thing, the Product or more simply...
What The Customer Wants!
The benefits of Value Stream Mapping include:
- It helps you visualize more than just the single-process level, you can actually see the flow
- It establishes priorities for improvement efforts
- It helps you to see waste and the source of that waste
- It is focused on no cost or expenseable improvements
- It provides a common language to talk about the processes
- It is based on objective information
- It forms the basis of an implementation plan
- It shows the link between information flow and material flow, no other tool does this
TAG's experienced facilitators will lead your team to develop Value Stream Maps for your facility using the following approach:
- Develop Commitment to Value and Use of the Value Stream Mapping
- Create a Product Family matrix
- Identify Value Stream Mapping Integrated Team
- Facilitate Development of "Current' State Map - How things actually are!
- Facilitate Development of "Future' State Map - How things should be!
- Provide Focus, Direction, Tools, & Methods to Value Stream Mapping Teams
- Ensure Value Stream Mapping Applications are based on Facts and Data not Supposition
- Develop the Value Stream Plan tied to business objectives
- Presentation by Value Stream Team to Management Group
- Conduct Value Stream Reviews "Walking the Flow" on the floor
TAG's Value Stream Mapping Deliverables:
- Development of a Value Stream Team & Approach
- Identification of Key Value Streams
- A Plan for Value Stream Mapping
- For Selected Value Stream:
- "Current State" Value Stream Map
- "Future State" Value Stream Map
- Prioritized List of Opportunities within the Value Stream
- Annual Improvement Plan by Value Stream
- Establish the true method for Continuous Improvement
Contact TAG today to learn more about getting started with this valuable tool in your organization