Value Stream Mapping

Value Stream Mapping software
that you won't outgrow

Excel templates with on-line training, videos, and examples
for value stream analysis and value stream management
to Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control a lean value stream - not just draw it

or test drive all 150+ templates
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Value Stream Mapping templates

All the Excel templates you need - in 1 inexpensive bundle

ROI is typically over 500%

Value Stream Map - Excel Template

Easily draw a value stream map using Excel
--- without the extra cost and confusion of Visio ---
using the value stream mapping symbols
known as "the language of Lean"
with math, charts, and analyses that Visio can't do

value stream mapping videoVideo: How to use Excel to create drawings
without the expense and learning curve of Visio

Download a free trial,
and try this simple drawing tool for yourself

Value Stream Mapping software
Value Stream Map

 

Also try the more powerful
VSM-PowerTool (below)
as gift when you
attend a free webinar

Value Stream Management - Power Tool

Unlike Visio (which does only rudimentary math),
and unlike the expensive cumbersome add-ins to Visio,
(where you have to import and export to & from Excel - where you are expected to program and debug your own math)...
with this value stream mapping software, you can
simply unhide rows of pre-programmed answers to the common questions that are the reason for doing value stream mapping in the first place.

This tool has pre-programmed answers to more questions than any other value stream mapping software on the market. See the full features list.

And (unlike Visio and its add-ins) you can use everything you know about Excel to personalize your maps - without the hassle, bugs, and limitations of importing and exporting to & from Visio.

Value Stream Mapping software
VSM Power Tool
can even handle
Mixed Model Value Streams

 

Get your free trial
VSM-PowerTool
as gift when you
attend a free webinar

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.

Visio wouldn't know the difference - because the symbols are the same - but the math and charts are very different.

Again... rather than working late to try to program these different formulas and charts yourself... your Systems2win bundle of lean value stream templates comes with ALL of the tools that you will never outgrow.

 

Supply Chain value stream mapping

Learn more -
Supply Chain Mapping

2 Learn Value Stream Mapping 

Self-paced learning quiz

With one glance - (when they "bring it back green")
a supervisor can have confidence
that each learner will now be a more valuable team member

and the supervisor hasn't spent all day training each learner

Learn Value Stream Mapping
Self-paced learning quiz

Team Charter

Your team leaders can choose from several excellent choices for Team Charter templates - selecting the best way to communicate what is expected from this team.

Team Charter template

Product Family Matrix

aka Product Quantity Product Rounding PQPR Matrix

Your first step is to identify your product families -
(products and services sharing similar processes),
and Systems2win provides the ideal tool for defining your product families.

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

(try doing that in Visio...)

Product Family Matrix Excel template
VSM Product Family Matrix

Process Steps List

Regardless of whether you are doing Lean ManufacturingLean 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

VSM process steps
Process Steps Analysis

Take your value stream map to another level

Import your 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 -
and analyze Old vs. Improved State for anything important to your process.

Tip: More and more of our new customers are coming from experienced lean teams that already have dozens of legacy maps drawn with less capable software -
and frustrated team members are sometimes using their own money to buy
Systems2win software to answer the more sophisticated value stream analysis questions that their management team is (finally) beginning to ask - and their legacy software can't answer.

VSM import old state comparison data
Click a button to
Import Old State
Comparison data

Value Stream Team Roles

Define Performance Evaluation Criteria and Ideal Profile for each team role

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

Value Stream Team Roles

Value Stream Plan

To manage clearly-defined objectives, goals, measures, responsibilities, and deadlines.

The ideal way to hold people accountable for results

Value Stream Plan
Value Stream Plan

Yes, you get this entire bundle of templates for one low price
and you don't need to buy Visio

And for just a little more, you can also get
the full suite of Lean tools to drill deeper to solve the problems revealed by your value stream map,
and the full suite of Kaizen Lean Leadership tools to organize your continuous improvement projects

Test drive every one of these Value Stream Mapping templates - with the confidence of a 30-day money back guarantee

 

 

 

Attend a free webinar
to get the trial version of
the VSM-PowerTool
(that does all the lean calculations)

 

 

 

Download your free trial templates - including the Value Stream Map
(simple drawing tool that doesn't do many calculations)

 

 

 

Top Ten Value Stream Mapping Template
Features & Benefits

  1. Visually see your entire process flow using the language of Lean to learn to see and eliminate wastes
  2. Preprogrammed Lean Metrics so you don't have to work late trying to write your own formulas
  3. Answer the question How can we make only what we need when we need it?
  4. Form a blueprint for Lean implementation to rally your team to eliminate wastes
  5. Instant on-line training for Lean concepts and techniques 
  6. Easily customized
    Written in Excel with all of its familiar formulas and charts
  7. Professional deliverables
    easily stored, emailed, and shared
  8. Drill down to swim lane flowcharts and other related documents
  9. Import Old comparison data with the click of a button
  10. Inexpensive
    to easily share & collaborate

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Value Stream Map Example

Value Stream Mapping - animated illustration
Download free trial of the VSM simple drawing tool
Attend free webinar to get your free trial of the VSM-PowerTool (that does all the lean calculations)
Test drive every one of these value stream mapping templates with the confidence of a 30-day money back guarantee


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Value Stream Management

and with math, charts, and analyses to reveal and solve root problems

Why just draw your value stream?
When you can so easily have the information you need to improve it.

The VSM Power Tool
has pre-programmed Lean metrics
that can be unhidden as needed
for value stream analysis and management

  • Lead Time, Cycle Time, Takt Time...
  • Time Sum Lines
  • Process Capacity
  • Optimal Batch Size
  • Every Part Every Interval
  • Activity Ratio, % Value Add Ratio
  • Work Load Balancing Chart
  • See our helpful Lean Glossary

Unit of measure conversions

  • New! Each process can have its own inventory unit of measure (e.g. one process makes wheels while another makes cars) - and everything is converted to a common unit of measure in the Time Sum Line
  • Switch at any time between working days, calendar days, weeks, or hours

Easily scales large or small

  • Drill down to swim lane flowcharts, Standard Work, Layout Diagrams, and other related documents
  • Add and remove processes with a single-click button
  • Hide rows - to show only what your audience needs to see,
    then unhide pre-defined calculations - to answer their questions
  • Easily handle multiple tiers of simultaneous processes
  • Print on any size printer or plotter supported by Excel

 

Value Stream Map

Written in Excel, so...

  • All the power of Excel
    To supplement our pre-programmed metrics with your own user-defined calculations
  • Drag n drop easy
    Copy n paste shapes
  • Easily exchange data
    Hyperlinks, data links, PowerPoint...
     
  • Your people already own Excel
  • No proprietary software to buy or learn
  • No cumbersome import and export to and from Excel - "it is Excel"

 

 

>>> Download free trial simple drawing tool <<<

>>> And get your free trial VSM-PowerTool <<<
>>> when you attend a free live webinar <<<



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What is Value Stream Mapping?

Value Stream Map software 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 the 7 types of waste.


Value Stream Mapping Training & Demo Videos

Value Stream Mapping Videos

Also see online training for Value Stream Mapping

and How to use Excel as a drawing tool
without the cost and learning curve of Visio

Videos for the VSM PowerTool

As your gift when you attend a free webinar,
you get the trial version of the VSM-PowerTool
that has most lean metrics pre-programmed

Training found in the template

The Sample and Help worksheets of every template
always contain training relevant to THAT template

Additional relevant training

Language Translations

Translations available for immediate delivery include:

value stream map Chinese
  • Spanish:
    Mapeo de la Cadena de valor
  • Portuguese:
    Mapeamento do Fluxo de Valor
  • Chinese: 价值流图

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Video Help

 

Introduction to
foundational concepts value stream mapping video

 

Value Stream Mapping Software value stream mapping video

 

Hide / Show Rows, and
Add / Remove a Process value stream mapping templates

 

Units of Measure value stream mapping video

 

Process Steps value stream mapping video

 

How to use your VSM as a Dashboard for Control value stream mapping video

Process Time and Cycle Time value stream mapping video

Lead Time value stream mapping video

Time Sum Line value stream mapping video


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Compare Value Stream Mapping Software

  Features & Benefits
  Draw right within Excel - with no need for the cost or confusion of Visio

and enjoy math, charts, and analyses that Visio can't do

  Start with a simple, easy-to-use drawing tool

then simply unhide value stream management features that you will never outgrow

  Full suite of value stream mapping tools

and optional full suite of Process Improvement tools commonly drilled down to from a value stream map

  Product Family Matrix to define product families

the first step of value stream mapping

  Unhide pre-programmed Lean metrics as needed

mistake-proofed, professionally programmed calcuations
 to achieve tangible, measurable improvements

  Re-hide Lean metrics with a click of a button

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

  Each process can have its own Inventory Unit of Measure

example: one process makes "seats" and the next makes "wheels"
and yet all bottom line calculations are still converted to "cars"

  Calculates Takt Time

considering all factors affecting Work Time Available Help

  Calculates Pitch

the pace that work is actually released

  Calculates Rolled First Pass Yield

as the product of % Complete and Accurate for all processes

  Calculates Total Steps

and value add steps

  Calculates Capacity

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

  Calculates Smallest Possible Number of Workers

"how many full time employees will be required?"

  Use Excel scenarios 2 minute training video for Excel Scenarios

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...

  Calculates Effective Cycle Time Lean Video

which is much more useful than simple Cycle Time
taking into consideration ALL of the factors that affect capacity

  Calculates optimum Batch Size

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

  Calculates Every Part Every Interval

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

  Correctly calculates totals for machine downtime, rework, defects,
and user-defined factors affecting capacity

Tip: Check the math when evaluating other VSM software that claims to calculate these metrics.
And then ask questions like "How is it possible to have 300% defects?"

  Time sum lines

for lead time, cycle time, effective cycle time, processing time, value add time, steps, value add steps

  Distance Traveled

both within and between processes

  Activity Ratio and % Value Add Time pie charts

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

  All the power of Excel for your own custom calculations

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

  Easily link cells between related spreadsheets

for parent/child processes, quality, safety, production scheduling, lean cost accounting,
and ANY other data that you find useful for managing your value stream

  Easily serves as a custom Dashboard control center for Value Stream Management

View Dashboard Video Lean Video

  Drill down to swim lane flowcharts and unlimited other related documents

of any document format using simple, familiar Link Icons Help

  Lead Time Unit of Measure can be instantly switched

between Working Days, Calendar Days, Hours, or Weeks

  Cycle Time Unit of Measure can be user-defined

seconds, minutes, or hours

  Easily handle simultaneous processes

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

  Scalable to ANY size

by simply clicking a button to add more process columns

  Easily add and remove processes with button click

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

  Provides all standard value stream mapping symbols - and more

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

  Work Load Balancing graph

unlike competing software - correctly handles simultaneous processes

  User-defined charts and graphs

with all the power of Excel's built-in charts - and all available Excel add-ins
including the Systems2win Pareto Chart template

  Import side-by-side comparisons to Old State

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

  Easily handle Quote to Cash analysis

and other Lean Office value streams

  Easily personalized Help

with all the familiarity of Excel

  Supply Chain Value Stream Mapping Help

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

 

  Ease & Training Features
  Ease of use - speed of learning

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

  Step-by-step instructions

to walk you through the entire value stream mapping process from step one through continuous improvement

  Uses terminology that make sense for ANY industry

like lean healthcare, and lean office, and any type of operational excellence.... not just lean manufacturing

  Pop-up help when you click any row or column header
  Right-click help for every shape
  Several ways to add user-defined help
 

Special features for multiple languages Globe

Click a button to switch between Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese...

 

Simple buttons that don't need training

to hide rows, add another process column, change units of measure, and import old state comparison data

  Free on-line training for how to use Excel

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

  Free on-line training for how to use Excel to create drawings

every bit as powerful as Visio

  On-line training for value stream mapping symbols and concepts

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

  On-line training for Process Improvement

because the reason to draw a value stream map isn't to just make a pretty picture
but to actually improve the cost, quality, and delivery speed of a process

  Video training Lean Video

Great for initial learning

  Searchable text online training

Search any Systems2win Help page using Ctrl+F
which is better than video for finding fast answers

  Quick access area for your personal Favorite shapes

Without having to ask... "Now where did I save that Visio stencil file six months ago?"

  Printable Help and Instructions

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

  Sample of what a finished document might look like

with interactive Learning Exercises

  Consistent and correct "Lean Lexicon"

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

  Self help knowledgebase

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

  1 year free technical support

by phone, email, or web conference

  Prerequisite software is just Excel

without the extra cost and learning curve of Visio or other third-party proprietary software
See FAQ for system requirements

 
 


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