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Step by Step Guide: An Example
• Step 1 - Select your sponsor and set
expectations
– appoint someone who is responsible to make
decisions, arbitrate solutions, and plan the
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project.
– Thesponsor usually selects the processes
that will be mapped and will usually have a
firm grasp of what achievement is being
targeted.
Step by Step Guide: An Example
• Step 2 - Select your team
–You should ensure that each area or
stakeholder of the process is represented e.g.
Sales, Purchasing, Warehouse etc.
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Step by Step Guide: An Example
• Step 3 -Select process to be mapped
– ValueStream Mapping is suitable for most
businesses and can be used in
Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain and
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some Service orientated Organizations.
Step by Step Guide: An Example
• Step 4 -Collect data and produce current
state map
– process times, inventory or materials
information, customer (or demand)
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requirements.
– the future state maps will be developed using
informationcaptured here so it’s imperative
you have a correct understanding of the
business.
Step by Step Guide: An Example
• Step 5 - Critique Current state
– challenge the current thinking, encourageyour team to make suggestions, look for
areas of waste.
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Step by Step Guide: An Example
• Step 6 - Map Future State
– compile a future state map based on the
current state map and the critiques30
Step by Step Guide: An Example
• Step 7 - Create Action Plan and deploy
– taking the Future State map consider an
action plan that could be implemented to
change the current process to thefuture state.
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Step by Step Guide: An Example
• Step 8 - Measure benefits
– check to ensure that the benefits expected
have been obtained – review each change
made and analyze benefits
32Some Mapping Tips (1)
• Always collect current-state information
while walking the actual pathways of
material and information flows yourself
• Begin with a quick walk along the entire
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