Creation of an ISO Standard at the Example of Value Stream Management Method

Abstract

The main objectives of this chapter are to elucidate the necessity of a standardized value stream management (VSM) and to clarify how this standard can effectively increase corporate performance within cross-enterprise supply chain networks (SCNs). VSM is an effective tool to collect, evaluate, and continuously improve product and information flows within companies in a common and standardized manner. The findings of this chapter are not only valid for consistent product and information flows but are representative for the relevance of standards in general. In a globalized economy, standards need to be generally accepted and valid for all countries. Thus, corporate or national standards only have limited impact. The International Standardization Organization (ISO) provides the means to develop, negotiate and communicate standards, which are globally binding. This chapter shares the experience of ISO 22468 standard development within ISO/TC 154 WG7 and proves its applicability by an administrative use case.

An Innovative Strategy Allowing a Holistic System Change towards Circular Economy within Supply-Chains

“…To receive feedback about the strategy itself, a cross-company case study of a complete SC was performed using the example of a PET-bottle in Luxembourg. The Yin methodology [70] was used to structure the case study and the value stream mapping (VSM) [71] method was used to collect and visualize production-related information. The results of the case study will be presented in future publications.…”

Analysis of supply-chains in the circular economy by means of VSM

“…The basic VSM concept was developed by (Rother and Shook 1999) and further details regarding defined calculation procedures were provided by (Erlach 2013). To ensure a common understanding of the most important VSM symbols, parameters and calculation procedures, VSM has been standardized by ISO (Mangers, Oberhausen, et al 2020).…”