Teams achieve operational excellence, in part, by optimizing process and material flow. Lean Path Direct Process & Material Flow Analysis service identifies opportunities to streamline your processes and improve material flows, reducing lead times, increasing productivity, reducing waste, and improving customer satisfaction. Through close collaboration with your teams, the current-state value stream is mapped showing all of the steps, processes, systems, and waste driving your sub-optimized business performance today.
Process Variation Over Time
It is very common, for long-standing processes to be misunderstood by experienced experts on your team. Even team members who themselves designed the process, will be surprised at how things have changed in just a short period of time. Divergent and misunderstood views of your processes are not signs of deficiency in your team. These changes are simply the result of a normal process evolution borne of necessity, innovation, adaptation, and often accompanied by a lack of a strong standard-work and KPI measurement processes, creating an ever-changing environment within your teams and a normal evolution of systems from their original design-intent.
Learning To See Together
The proven Process and Material Flow Analysis that Lean Path Direct will guide your teams through, resolves these disparate views on current process by bringing your brightest and most experienced team-members together to drive a common understanding of opportunities to improve. An accurate, objective definition of the current-state enables the team to set-aside practical conventions momentarily to help unlock their creative potential. Answering the question….”without constraints, what would be the ideal process to delight the customer and eliminate waste?” allows teams to push outside the box driving transformational improvements. From here, the team creates an actionable future-state with clear and practical solutions.
Sustainable Future State
Achieve dramatic improvements in team-engagement, significant cost savings, greatly enhanced competitive position, and material increases in customer satisfaction by engaging your team and Lean Path Direct guiding your progress. This process has been successfully deployed within manufacturing, service, health-care, and educational organizations around the world. Whether you have a small, local three person team or a large globally dispersed operations organization, Lean Path Direct can bridge the gaps between current-state and a robust future-state on your Lean Path. We have successfully completed transformative changes with in-house teams, customer organizations, and suppliers.