Value Stream Mapping
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Value Stream Mapping - Excel Template

Easily draw a value stream map
using the value stream mapping symbols
known as "the language of Lean"
Video: How to use Excel to create drawings
without the expense and learning curve of Visio

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Value Stream Management - Power Tool

Unhide pre-programmed lean value steam analysis metrics as needed - to answer questions about how your proposed changes are expected to affect performance measures

v7 now makes it truly easy to start with a simple drawing, and then unhide pro-programmed Lean metrics as needed

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Supply Chain Value Stream Map

Anyone who has attempted to manage a value stream map beyond their own 4 walls knows that the math and charts are different. 

Learn more - Supply Chain Mapping

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With one glance - a Supervisor can see that each Learner has learned what they need to know to be a more valuable team member.

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Product Family Matrix

The first step of value stream mapping is to identify your product families - (products and services sharing similar processes)

You will then create one value stream map per product family, and then (optionally) use scenarios to show different numbers for different products - all on one drawing!

Which is a vast time savings over entry-level value stream mapping software that requires you to maintain (and try to keep in sync) dozens of drawings that are almost identical

VSM Product Family Matrix

Process Steps List

Regardless of whether you are doing Lean Manufacturing,  Lean Office, or Lean Healthcare, the second step is to walk the gemba (where the work is done) and write down a list of the process steps that you observe

Value Stream Analysis - fast and easy

Take your value stream map to another level

Import old state comparison data with a click of a button.
Analyze multiple scenarios on a single drawing.
Insert unlimited rows of user data -
with all the calculation power of Excel. 

Even if you already have dozens of legacy maps drawn with less capable software - you can still use the Systems2win Power Tool to answer the value stream analysis questions that your management team is becoming more and more savvy about asking

Value Stream Team Roles

Define performance evaluation criteria for each Value Stream team role

Rather than starting with a blank page - you can start with industry best practices - and then personalize for your team.

Value Stream Plan

To manage your lean value stream with clearly-defined objectives, goals, measures, responsibilities, and deadlines.

The ideal way to hold people accountable for results

• Training found in the template            Download free trial
  • Pop-up help when you click any row or column header
  • Right-click help for every shape
  • Step-by-step instructions on the Help worksheet
  • Several ways to add your own user-defined help

• Value Stream Mapping video
  • Quick Start for trial templates (5 min video)
  • Introduction to value stream mapping basic concepts (7 mins)
  • How to use Excel as a Drawing Tool (13 mins)
  • Using the Hide/Unhide Rows button (1 min)
  • Scenarios (2 mins)

   

• Videos for VSM Power Tool (that has pre-programmed lean metrics)
• Units of Measure (5 mins)
• Process & Cycle Time (5 mins)
• Lead Time (3 mins)
• Add or Remove a Process (1 min)
• VSM as a Dashboard (6 mins)

 

• Additional training relevant to this template
  • Value Stream Mapping online training
  • Value stream mapping symbols
  • Lean Office and Lean Healthcare
  • Special features for multiple languages
  • Training & Demos home page

What is Value Stream Mapping? The Value Stream Map is a special type of flow chart to depict and improve the flow of "the thing being processed" and the information needed to process it. Use this popular Lean tool to design your production environments for continuous flow - as free as possible from various forms of waste. Introduction to Value Stream Mapping basic concepts (7 min intro to value stream mapping training video)

Value Stream Map templates bundle

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on order page

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Training videos

New value stream mapping features

Released June, 2009

New button to Add Columns for an unlimited number of processes.

Four tiers of simultaneous processes are now supported.

Each process can now have its own Inventory Unit of Measure
For example, a process might make wheels instead of cars,
and therefore have its own metrics (such as Takt Time, Cycle Time, Process Lead Time...) measured in wheels instead of cars. And yet all bottom-line Time Sum Line metrics are converted into a common unit of measure.

Lean Metrics now take into consideration Work Time Available that might be unique for each process.
For example one process might work 6 days a week while all the others work 5 days. And another process might work an extra shift one day a week...

New metrics and on-line training for Lean Office
including drop-down data lists, and training for how to easily handle Quote to Cash analysis.

Value Stream Team Roles
New template to clarify roles & responsibilities.

More & better on-line training
Much of our online training has been updated, so it is now even easier for your people to "really get it".

Released December, 2008

Hide / Unhide Rows button - to quickly unhide the rows containing the Lean metrics you need to answer a question - and then quickly re-hide them so that your value stream map looks uncluttered and simple.

VSM Power Tool is now both more powerful and easier to use -
You start out with most metrics hidden - making it easy to start with an uncluttered drawing  - and yet all of those Lean metrics are always only a click away as soon as you're ready to start analyzing, improving, and controlling your value stream.

New Lean metrics - to calculate:

• Pitch - the pace that "the thing being processed" flows through the value stream
• Rolled First Pass Yield - the product of all % Complete and Accurate
• Activity Ratio and Value % of Time - often embarrassingly small numbers that dramatically illustrate how much room there is for improvement
• Staffing - how many full time employees will be required?
• Number of Steps, and Value Add Steps

Printable step by step instructions - to walk you through the entire process from step 1 through never-ending continuous improvement

Process Steps List and Analysis - to collect and organize your initial data gathered from walking the gemba (work area)

Value Stream Plan - to assign responsibilities and deadlines

Import Old State Comparison Data - with the click of a button

Supply Chain Value Stream Mapping - an entirely new template with all Lean metrics pre-programmed to manage your entire supply chain

New features in version 6

Released March, 2008

New Systems2win menu in Word and Excel
* Even easier ways to find & open templates.
* New stencil of Link Icons - to create hyperlinks anywhere in your value stream map.
* New flag icons - to link multi-language documents.

Easily sync templates in each local PC with master templates in your S2winPortal.
* Easily distribute personalized templates to all of your users.
* Easier for consultants and laptop users to always have access to your latest templates - even when disconnected from your network

New button to Add or Remove A Process (and all associated process boxes and formulas) with a single click.

Units of Measure conversions
Cycle Time can be seconds, minutes, or hours.
Lead Times can be instantly converted at any time between Working Days, Calendar Days, Weeks, and Hours.

Even better compatibility with more versions of Windows and Office.
* Better support for international languages, and international versions of Windows and Office.

Learn even more about What's New

Hide/Unhide Rows with the click of a button

Import Old State Comparison button
with error checking to ensure valid comparison


Link Icons for fast, intuitive hyperlinks


Add or Remove a Process
(and all associated formulas)
with a single click

 

then expand into value stream management features that you will never outgrow

And optional full suite of related Business Process Improvement tools

the first step of value stream mapping

 to achieve tangible, measurable improvements

so that you don't confuse your audience with more than they are ready to learn

pre-programmed - so you don't have to

e.g. one process makes "seats" and the next makes "wheels", and yet all bottom line calculations are still converted to "cars"

considering all factors affecting Work Time Available

the pace that work is actually released

as the product of % Complete and Accurate for all processes

and value add steps

to answer the question "how many of these can we make?"

"how many full time employees will be required?"

for multiple what-if analyses on a single value stream map drawing - for different products within a product family, or for different levels of customer demand, or for different production situations...

taking into consideration ALL of the factors that affect capacity

"How many of these should we process at a time?"

to answer your salesperson's question: "What's the longest time a customer would ever have to wait to deliver anything we make?"

Tip: Check the math. 
And then ask questions like
"How is it possible to have 300% defects?"

based on greater of Takt Time Capacity Calc or Next Downstream Operation Capacity Calc

for lead time, cycle time, effective cycle time, processing time, value add time, steps, value add steps, and distance traveled both within and between processes

both within and between processes

Often embarrassingly small numbers that dramatically illustrate how much room there is for improvement

Without importing and exporting through some cumbersome proprietary interface that greatly limits Excel functionality

for parent/child processes, quality, safety, production scheduling, lean cost accounting, and any other value stream management data

See Dashboard Video

of any document format using simple, familiar Link Icons

between Working Days, Calendar Days, Hours, or Weeks

seconds, minutes, or hours

by simply unhiding additional tiers of simultaneous processes with all math correctly pre-programmed

by simply clicking a button to add more process columns

adding and removing the math associated with the process with the same button click

Engineering, and other pre- and post- production modeling

and every symbol looks just like the originals in the books Learning to See, and Seeing the Whole

Pre-programmed to work correctly - even with simultaneous processes

with all the power of Excel's built-in charts - and all available Excel add-ins

with the push of a button
and with error-checking to make sure that your imported data is a valid comparison

and other Lean Office value streams

with special features to automatically sync your personalized templates out to every one of your licensed users - in a way that allows them to always have your latest personalized templates even when using a laptop far away from your local area network

Entirely separate template with pre-programmed Lean metrics and charts for supply chain planning

If you already know how to use Excel, you're already more than half trained

to walk you through the entire value stream mapping process from start to never-ending continuous improvement

not just manufacturing

with instructions for Excel 97-2003 in green
and (if different) Excel 2007 in orange

every bit as powerful as Visio

so you won't need to buy so many copies of those expensive books that are never nearby when you need them anyway

with special training and examples for how to use value stream mapping in non-manufacturing environments

Great for initial learning

Search any Systems2win help page using Ctrl+F
Great for finding fast answers

Without having to ask
"Now where did I save that stand-alone stencil file six months ago?"

With consistently structured training sections - so that you can easily find the help you're looking for in any Systems2win template

with interactive Learning Exercises

Lean time definitions, formulas, and examples are always within a mouse click, and our definitions are precise and correct, because we needed to write field-tested formulas

that is available to everyone, not just "premium subscribers"

by phone, email, or web conference

without the extra cost and learning curve of Visio or other third-party proprietary software
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