MSS405002 Analyse and map a value stream

Release: 1

MSS405002 Analyse and map a value stream

Modification History

Release 1. Supersedes and is equivalent to MSS405002A Analyse and map a value stream

Application

This unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge required to analyse and map a value stream, including the clear identification of the place of an organisation in the value stream and its contribution to the value stream. The unit includes the relationships and the activities undertaken by value stream organisations. The identification skills include identification at the virtual or information level, the technical or process level, and at the physical or logistic level.

The unit includes the analysis of value-adding and non-value adding activities and the information needs for successful value stream mapping, including information technology (IT) needs.

This unit covers the analysis of the supply chain, the demand chain as well as the overall value stream.

This unit applies to an individual in a senior role in an organisation, such as an operations manager, purchasing manager, senior technical officer performing planning or scheduling or similar who needs to analyse and map a value stream, a supply chain, or a demand chain in order to understand the interactions between all members and determine the value added/potential value added by each member. The value stream is represented visually according to organisation format requirements.

The value stream may be being mapped for the first time, or it may be an analysis and mapping of a previously mapped value stream. The analysis and mapping may be for an entire value stream, or a defined part of one.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Pre-requisite Unit

Nil

Competency Field

Competitive systems and practices

Unit Sector

Not applicable

Elements and Performance Criteria

Elements describe the essential outcomes.	Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.
1	Map the value stream	1.1	Select a product/product group for analysis.
1.2	Identify ultimate customer.
1.3	Identify ultimate supplier.
1.4	Identify all organisations between ultimate supplier and ultimate customer.
1.5	Identify all steps in own organisation.
1.6	Map value stream.
2	Define customer need	2.1	Determine the features/benefits obtained by customers from product.
2.2	Determine methods of measuring the contribution to each feature/benefit.
2.3	Identify possible data sources for required measures.
2.4	Implement measurement of contribution to features/benefits.
3	Assess the value added at each step	3.1	Identify value contributed by each external organisation.
3.2	Determine value added by each internal step.
3.3	Determine method of measuring value added.
4	Reduce muda (waste)	4.1	Compare value added to customer benefit/feature.
4.2	Identify activities on value stream map which do not add to customer benefit/features.
4.3	Liaise with external value stream members to determine methods to reduce overall waste.
4.4	Take required actions to reduce waste.

Foundation Skills

This section describes those required skills (language, literacy and numeracy) that are essential to performance.

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Range of Conditions

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Competitive systems and practices include one or more of:	lean operations agile operations preventative and predictive maintenance approaches statistical process control systems, including six sigma and three sigma Just in Time (JIT), kanban and other pull-related operations control systems supply, value, and demand chain monitoring and analysis 5S continuous improvement (kaizen) breakthrough improvement (kaizen blitz) cause/effect diagrams overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) takt time process mapping problem solving run charts standard procedures current reality tree.
Customer requirement stages where value stream actions may occur include one or more of:	sales outlet/representative information gathering, data analysis and research product design raw material sourcing intermediate processing final assembler/collation/preparation support services (e.g. accounting, finance and legal) storage and delivery to customer after market support.
Value-added as perceived by the customer includes one or more of:	technical benefits/features location benefits/features aesthetic benefits/features information benefits/features.
Techniques for value stream mapping include one or more of:	hard copy (e.g. paper or whiteboard) appropriate software tools expert group participation by gemba representatives participation by all impacted personnel.
Muda (waste) includes all of:	excess production and early production delays movement and transport poor process design inventory inefficient performance of a process making defective items activities which do not yield any benefit to the organisation or any benefit to the organisations customers.

Unit Mapping Information

Release 1. Supersedes and is equivalent to MSS405002A Analyse and map a value stream

Links

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