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Value Stream Mapping is the perfect tool for seeing and improving the flow of inventory and information
Manufacturers and distributors will also be interested in using a swim lane flow chart for improving processes like sales order processing, engineering, maintenance, accounting, and any process that does not involve inventory.
System2win offers a full suite of tools for Business Process Improvement.
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Does your company already own some less capable Value Stream Mapping Software?
Consider this new niche of customers that we are now attracting. The profile for this new market niche customer of ours is a very large corporation that has already purchased dozens of seat licenses for much more expensive and less capable value stream mapping software, they have already invested hundreds of hours training dozens of people to use that software to draw dozens or hundreds of value stream maps.
And the maps look good. There are a half a dozen good value stream map drawing tools out there. But they are just that: drawing tools.
The trouble starts when after seeing so many maps, top management finally learns to ask better questions. They start asking pointed questions and demanding quantifiable numeric answers – not just pretty pictures.
That’s when someone in that company buys our software, and rather than wasting time re-drawing, they simply paste their already-well-drawn pictures onto our template, and then use our calculations to analyze and quantify their proposed changes.
Some users quickly realize that our Excel template is equally capable of drawing the maps, and happily give up their expensive seat license for the legacy software, while other users are reluctant to give up the drawing tool that they invested so much time to learn. But both types of users agree that there is simply no substitute for the calculation and analysis power of our Excel-based VSM-PowerTool.
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| Features & benefits | Less capable value stream mapping software | Systems2win Excel VSM-PowerTool |
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| You receive two templates: 1) Simple drawing tool 2) Power Tool - with pre-defined Lean calculations |
No All you get is the simple drawing tool |
Yes You get appropriate tools for both beginners and Lean experts |
| Pre-defined Lean calculations | Either absolutely no, or very few Lean calculations. Most data is exported to Excel, where you write formulas from scratch |
Yes All you need to do is enter your data |
| Auto-calculates Capacity, Batch Size, Change Over Time, and Every Part Every Interval | No | Yes |
| Time sum lines can optionally display lead time, cycle time, effective cycle time, processing time, and value add time | Choose 2 | Yes. All at once, or any of the above. |
| Correctly calculates totals for machine downtime, rework, defects, distance traveled, and user-defined factors affecting capacity |
No.
And if they claim to do some of these calculations - check the math. It is often absurdly wrong. |
Yes |
| All the power of Excel calculations | Requires import and export to & from Excel using cumbersome proprietary interface that greatly limits Excel functionality | Yes. This is Excel, so you have all the power of Excel |
| Easily update data values to and from related spreadsheets - for parent/child processes, or quality, safety, production scheduling, lean cost accounting... | Only with custom calculations funneled through a cumbersome interface to Excel |
Yes It is Excel |
| Unlimited hyperlinks - using simple, familiar
link icons - so that at a glance it is obvious
that: a) there is a hyperlink b) what type of document is linked c) roll-over tool-tip text for each link |
Multiple hyperlinks are handled with proprietary and non-intuitive user interface that requires you to "click and see" if there is a link |
Yes Systems2win provides 100 Link Icons for easy, unlimited, highly-visual hyperlinks |
| Pre-defined and customizable Unit of Measure conversions | Cumbersome set-up required - even for the most basic units of measure, like seconds per minute. And UOM's keep auto-switching making it difficult to compare minutes to seconds or miles to feet. | Yes. The most common UOM's are instantly ready to use, and you can easily defined unlimited custom UOM's for things like pallet sizes and case packs. |
| Lead Time Units of Measure: Instantly switch between Working Days, Calendar Days, Hours, or Weeks | No | Yes - use a simple drop-down menu to switch between Lead Time UOM's at any time |
| Easily handles simultaneous (double decker) processes |
Easily? Correctly? |
Yes - with no programming required |
| Easily used for Quote To Cash Cycle, Engineering, and other pre- and post- production modeling | Only by exporting to Excel and creating custom calculations from scratch | Yes |
| Provides every value stream mapping symbol used in the book Learning to See | Yes. Many shapes, however, don't look anything like the shapes you see in Learning To See |
Yes - and more! And shapes look just like they do in the book Learning To See |
| Pre-defined Work Balancing graph | No | Yes |
| User-defined charts and graphs | Usually through cumbersome export to Excel |
Yes. All the power of Excel's built-in charts - and all available Excel add-ins |
| Side-by-side Current to Ideal State Comparison, A3 Report, Storyboard, or PowerPoint to visually summarize results | Some | Yes. Many flexible choices - clearly documented and easy |
| Version control features can be used stand-alone or integrate with any third-party version control software | Probably not | Yes |
| Features & benefits | Less capable value stream mapping software | Systems2win Excel VSM-PowerTool |
| Ease of use - speed of learning | Training can take days. Must learn proprietary software, and proprietary Excel interface, and maybe Visio, and you STILL need to know Excel |
If you already know Excel and you
already know Value Stream Mapping,
training takes minutes.
If you need help, we provide lots of on-line training. |
| Add or Remove a Process (and all associated process boxes) with a single click | No |
Yes (new with Version 5) |
| Every row header has pop-up help | No | Yes |
| Every shape has right-click help | No | Yes |
| Ease of use - personal "stencil' of shapes | "Now where did I save that stand-alone stencil file six months ago?" | Just drag shapes to your Favorite Shapes area |
| On-line training - both video (great for initial learning) and searchable text (great for finding fast answers) |
No. Self-help knowledgebase might only be available to “premium” subscribers | Yes |
| Sample and help pages with succinct training and interactive learning exercises | No | Yes |
| Ease of use - single clear purpose tool | No. Users are confused with trying to use a single tool to accomplish very different (and incompatible) purposes. |
Yes This tool is for value stream mapping. The Swim Lane Flow Chart and Spaghetti Diagram are similar tools optimized for their own special purposes. |
| Ease of use - consistent use of "Lean Lexicon" |
No If your on-line documentation uses the terms "cycle time" "process time" and "value add time" interchangeably, how are your people ever going to learn what those terms really mean? |
Yes Lean time definitions, formulas, and examples are always only a click away, and our definitions are precise and correct, because we needed to write field-tested formulas |
| Ease of use - clearly documented formulas |
No If formulas are provided at all, they are sometimes wrong, and documentation is even more often confusing or wrong |
Yes Documented, pre-calculated, and testable (with your own calculator) |
| On-line education for value stream mapping terms and concepts | No |
Yes so you won't need to buy so many copies of those $75 books |
| 1 year free technical support - by phone, email, or web conference | No | Yes |
| Prerequisite software See FAQ |
Excel, plus maybe Visio | Excel |
| Price |
$399 per seat or purchase as part of a discount bundle View pricing |
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| Upgrades | Systems2win Excel templates are remarkably cost effective when evaluated from the perspective of lifetime ownership | |
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