Seeing the Whole Value Stream

Value Stream Mapping and improving the extended value stream. "What do you think is the largest scale at which a map is still usable?"
"Approximately 1:10 000"
"One in ten thousand but!.... We made a map at a scale of 1:1!"
"Do you guys use those a lot?" I asked
"We never unfolded it.... the farmers complained that the map would cover all the land and therefore block all the sunlight! So now we use the land itself, as its own map, and I assure you it works just fine."
- Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Chapter 11

The larger your scope, the more difficult it is to focus: when you want to map the extended value stream across different organizations, it is even an order of magnitude more difficult to apply the right level of detail. This workbook is a practical guide to do exactly that, and to achieve a win-win situation in cooperation within the entire chain. Topics covered include:

• the 7 wastes in the extended value stream
• mapping of the extended value stream
• 6 types of stock, and how to deal with them
• real case histories, including Tesco
• a different perspective on costs

Additional Information

AUTHOR(S)	Dan Jones, Jim Womack, David Brunt, Matthew Lovejoy
NUMBER OF PAGES	108
LANGUAGE	English
ISBN	9781934109328
PUBLISHER	Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc.