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Value Stream
Mapping
(VSM)
A business,
factory or warehouse can be
enormously complex. Only visuals can convey enough information to
understand the pieces,
relationships, hidden waste, and
what drives the cost base.
Value Stream
Mapping
brings visualization and a deep
understanding and major
breakthroughs in productivity and
other performance. It leads to
consensus on systemic problems and
remedies. While finished charts
communicate information about a
situation, the real value is the
mapping itself. This is where
insights grow, paradigms shift and
consensus builds.
What is
Value
Stream Mapping?
Value Stream
Mapping charts trace the
sequence of events for a business,
department or process. The most
useful VSM charts are quite
detailed, this is important because
most waste and unnecessary cost is
at a micro- level.
Will
Value Stream
Mapping work
in your business?
Value Stream
Mapping exercises can
be applied to any business that is process
driven, we specialise in:-
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Manufacturing
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B2B
Service Providers - 3pl and
Distributors
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Logistics
- Warehouse & Transport
Operations.
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End to
End Supply Chain Processes
Why the need
for
Value Stream Mapping?
The
reasons for this are simple: Many
businesses are managed as a series
of departmental groups rather than
as a total business process and
therefore there is little
understanding of the effect that a
process has on other upstream or
downstream departments & processes.
How the Value
Stream is mapped ?
Supply Chain
Logistics Consulting Ltd have taken
the best practice value stream
mapping techniques and developed
them into a unique process by
process, cost reduction assessment
review, coupled with process to
process modelling.
Deciding
on the
area of the business to be Value
Stream Mapped?
Examples can be:-
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The Total
Supply Chain - Your Suppliers
- Your Business - Your
Customers
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Your Business
- All departments in the end to
end supply chain of your
products or services.
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Departmental
Groups within your Business -
Sales - Planning - Manufacturing
- Logistics
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Departmental
- Manufacturing or Logistics
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Processes
within a single department -
Production Cell or Warehouse
Operation or Transport
Here is an example of our VSM unique
process:-
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We agree with
the client the area of the
business where the process
improvement - cost reduction
value stream mapping exercise
will take place.
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We then walk
and talk the total process from
end to end looking at each
individual process and the work
inputs and outputs being
achieved.
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Once we have
collected all the information
about the processes we start to
build the
value stream map with:-
Process names and sequences of
work, followed by the process
activities and flows.
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We then use
our manufacturing / logistics
experience & skills to identify
the issues & concerns that are
driving unnecessary cost &
resource, and enter these into
the issues and concerns area of
the VSM Map.
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We then
solutions design, process
improvements that will remove
unnecessary costs and resources. We then enter the process
improvement requirement into the
process improvement area of the
VSM Map.
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The VSM
chart is now complete, you can scroll
through the Value Stream Map
from process to process in a
logical sequence and see
everything you need to know
about and how to improve the
processes and remove the
unnecessary cost & resources.
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Once the process
improvement actions are agreed the
Value Stream Map can be modified to
show the end to end processes with
the process improvements in place,
this then becomes your target
condition or future state process
map.
Supply Chain
Logistics Consulting Ltd also has the
ability to introduce data behind the Value Stream Map
work activity flows and processes, so that a model can be
built that will run a real time
simulation of the process to process
flows. We achieve this by
adding - resources, timings, Input
and output volumes for each
and every process in the Value
Stream Mapping Chart.
How can you
benefit from Value Stream Mapping?
Value Stream
Mapping focuses on the design of the
business processes. To be
competitive you must eliminate
wasteful interruptions to process flows,
reducing your process lead times
to a minimum.
Your business will benefit in a
number of ways:
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A greater
understanding of business cost
drivers and how to reduce the
costs.
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A clear
picture of business processes
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A
reduction in process lead-times
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An increase
in value added contribution
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It's only
when you go to finite detail
that you realise what's actually
going on
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