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Value-stream mapping, also known as material- and information-flow mapping, [1] is a lean [2]-management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state for the series of events that take a product or service from the beginning of the specific process until it reaches the customer.
Value-stream-mapping software is a type of software that helps prepare and/or analyze value stream maps. The software typically helps design maps through utilizing a series of symbols representing activity and information/material flow, and as a supplement to manual calculations [ 1 ]
A value stream always begins and ends with a customer. Value stream is usually aligned with company processes. Value streams are artifacts within business architecture that allow a business to specify the value proposition derived by an external (e.g., customer) or internal stakeholder from an organization. A value stream depicts the ...
The Value Stream: Identify the value stream for each product providing that value and challenge all of the wasted steps (generally nine out of ten) currently necessary to provide it; Flow: Make the product flow continuously through the remaining value-added steps; Pull: Introduce pull between all steps where continuous flow is possible
The value chain framework quickly made its way to the forefront of management thought as a powerful analysis tool for strategic planning. The simpler concept of value stream mapping, a cross-functional process which was developed over the next decade, [15] had some success in the early 1990s. [16]
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) – Value stream mapping refers to the development of a high-level visual representation of a process flow that is involved in delivering a product or service (called a "value stream") to customers. VSM events, which are typically 3–4 days, focus on identifying the sources of non-value added activity and ...
Business process mapping refers to activities involved in defining what a business entity does, who is responsible, to what standard a business process should be completed, and how the success of a business process can be determined. The main purpose behind business process mapping is to assist organizations in becoming more effective.
Quality filter mapping is part of the value stream mapping [1] toolkit and is used to analyse processes/functions with respect to quality. The results of a quality filter map shows how much waste is being generated within an organisation at each stage of the process. Three types of quality [2] are measured as part of the model: