Comments on: Why You Need to Map the Extended Value Stream https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/why-you-need-to-see-the-entire-system/ Lean Production | Lean Manufacturing | LEI | Lean Services Fri, 21 Oct 2022 18:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Braeden Cannon https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/why-you-need-to-see-the-entire-system/#comment-47458 Wed, 12 Oct 2022 20:07:47 +0000 https://lei.flywheelsites.com/the-lean-post/articles/why-you-need-to-see-the-entire-system/#comment-47458 Use:
• Track the path of all of the essential parts that go into delivering a product to a customer, from raw material to delivery
• Exploring/examining the current-state system as a whole may reveal opportunities for rethinking its configuration
Next product generation  easiest point to make a significant leap to an ideal-state configuration
Includes every supply system
• The entire system must be lean
After completing lean analysis you have to decide location

The system-summary map illustrates the primary timelines needed for extended value streams
• (the amounts of raw materials, work-in process, finished goods, and transportation time)
• Include lead times
Value Stream Mapping Power
• Shows consequences of current state and elevates discussion
• Becomes a reference point for future improvements
• Time is an important tool or reference you can use when looking at a system
• Helps management with where to focus energy

My thoughts:
In my time as a student, I have learned much about the psychology of being a supply chain major and working in the field, however, I love how practical value stream mapping is. It has been brought up in my class, but you give a convincing argument why every company should be doing this no questions asked. You provide confidence in a somewhat simple tool that I hope will be very beneficial as I start my professional career. Thank you.

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