Workflow Assignment

Workflow Assignment
Syed Ateeb Hussain (20960)
Syed Ateeb Hussain (20960)
Faculty: Sir Faraz Ali
Faculty: Sir Faraz Ali

What is Value Stream?

It is a sequence of value-adding activities and their aim is to achieve the specific result that
provides value to stakeholder. Basically it deals with the whole process of any organization or
business that how the process performed and finished on the value added solution of any ongoing
process and to remove the Muda (wastes) of the process. Value stream describes about the
enterprise organization of activities to create value. This value always defined from the
stakeholder’s perspective – the customer, end-user, or product or service recipient.

Value streams can be defined at different levels of the organization, e.g. at the enterprise level,
business unit level, or department level, and they may extend into the enterprise ecosystem ,
where partners, suppliers, customers and others play a role in the value creation. Value streams
can be a composition or aggregation of sub-streams, usually called value (stream) stages, where
each stage should have a clear value contribution of its own.

What is BPMN?

A business process describes the (time-ordered) sequence of behaviors required to create some
result for an individual case, and it may describe alternative paths and decision points (modeled
with junctions). Every business process has the activities and events present in them. Some of the
processes are described below:
BPMN vs. Value Stream Mapping:

Business processes and possibly other core behavior elements typically realize a value stream,
for example if parts of it are automated. The stages in a value stream provide a framework for
organizing and defining business processes, but different parts of the organization may have their
own implementations of business processes to realize the same value stream stage. Conversely,
one business process may realize multiple stages in a value stream.

A business process describes the (time-ordered) sequence of behaviors required to create some
result for an individual case, and it may describe alternative paths and decision points (modeled
with junctions). In contrast, a value stream focuses on the overall value-creating behavior from
the perspective of the importance, worth, or usefulness of what is produced, and is not a
description of time-ordered tasks for individual cases.

Adding a value stream concept also leads to a neat symmetry in the language. Value streams and
capabilities reflect an organization’s business model and value proposition, whereas business
processes and business functions reflect its operating model. At their respective abstraction
levels, value streams and business processes both represent the ‘enterprise in motion’, whereas
capabilities and business functions both describe the ‘enterprise at rest’.

Factors BPMN Value Stream Mapping

Purpose Identify the voice of customer Identify waste within and between
process
Scope Before start drawing the start and It is already defined, starts and ends with
end steps of the process are the customer
defined
Description Presents the sequence of events to Visual representation of the flow of
complete the process through a material and information as a product or
visual representation of workflow service makes its way through the value
within the process stream. Starts with the customer request
and ends with the product or service
delivery
Level of detail Very detailed look into a single Takes a high level look at a company’s
process, it captures the inputs and flow of goods from supplier to customer
outputs of every step
Usage Show where improvements can be Find the company’s true bottleneck,
made within the process highlight sources of waste, provides
baseline and implementation plan with
one tool
Key Metrics Depends on the process Most of the time: cycle time, up time,
wait times, inventory levels, CO times,
headcount