Value Stream Metrics

It’s important to see and understand how the work flows through your system. Whether that is your upstream funnel, (downstream) delivery system, your end-to-end value stream, or perhaps it’s a particular value stream segment. It’s important to visualise and understand your key flow metrics to identify the areas that are not in the desired state that need to be addressed. Flomatika helps you visualise and understand how the work flows through your system, and highlights the areas of concern you should focus on.

Should Delayed Items be considered in WIP or Inventory?Now that we’ve covered some of the concepts, the question is: “Should we be displaying Delayed Items as WIP?”These items have a commitment date, so by definition should be shown along with all the other WIP items. These items are ageing, a customer expectation has been set, and they are now waiting for the work item to be delivered. Teams should be conscious of these Delayed Items and they should have a plan in place on how they are going to manage these.