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Value streams management

Accessing Value Streams with HOPEX Business Process Analysis

Creating a value stream

Representing the value stream fulfillment with HOPEX Business Process Analysis

A value stream is an end-to-end collection of Value Stages that creates an outcome for a customer, who may be the ultimate customer or an internal end-user of the value stream.

Prerequisites to using value streams

One option is used to display the value streams.

To do so:

To display Value Chains, Value streams modeling must be activated through Main Menu > Settings > Options > HOPEX Solutions > Business Process Analysis.

Accessing Value Streams with HOPEX Business Process Analysis

To access the list of Value chains:

Expand the Value Streams folder from the navigation menu Process > Hierarchy.

Creating a value stream

To create a Value Stream from the navigation bar:

1. Select the Processes navigation menu.

2. Select the Hierarchy tab.

3. Click New > Value stream

The value stream creation window appears.

4. Enter the Local name of the Value stream.

5. Click OK.

The value chain is created and added to the list of value streams.

Creating a value stream diagram

To create a value stream diagram:

1. In the Value Stream list, click the button Create Diagram

related to the selected Value Stream.

The diagram creation window opens.

2. Select the diagram type you want to create.

• Value Stream Diagram: it is a BPMN diagram that allows to precisely describe value streams.

• Business to Capability Map Diagram: it is a simplified diagram that allows to easily describe value stream steps and their links with with Business Capabilities.

To display this diagram, activate the Capabilities visibility option through Main Menu > Settings > Options > HOPEX Solutions > Business Process Analysis.

The value stream diagram

The value stream diagram shows the sequence of the value creation steps performed, the events that occur and the conditions under which they are sequenced. It also makes it possible to assign the participants who carry out these value-creation steps to the business skills needed to implement them. This representation of a Value Stream helps to answer the following question: "What are the skills needed to implement the Value Stream?".

This type of diagram makes it possible to describe precisely the company's value streams as presented in paragraph : Value Stream Example.

The value stream to capability diagram

The value stream to capability diagram can only be used in tabular input mode.

This diagram makes it easy to initialize a value stream diagram by creating the value stream steps and the links they have with the different business capabilities.

For more details on the use of tabular input, see Diagrams in Tabular Entry Mode.

For more information on business capabilities see Business Capability Maps.

Representing the value stream fulfillment with HOPEX Business Process Analysis

You can represent the fulfillment of a value stream by a process.

To access the list of Value Streams from Processes navigation menu:

1. Select Hierarchy.

2. Expand the Processes folder.

3. Open the Characteristics property page of the process.

4. In the Fulfillments section, click the New button.

A creation window opens.

5. Select Value Stream Fulfillment and click Next.

6. Connect an existing value chain or create a new one.