ANALYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT OF BUSINESS PROCESSES MANAGEMENT - BASED ON VALUE STREAM MAPPING (VSM) IN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES

Business process management is a very important factor in assessing the effectiveness of production systems (entire enterprises or departments). And while the planning and management of business processes is mastered, it is difficult to create relationships between coexisting processes within one production system. Usually, business process management refers to extracted (isolated) processes, in this case relationships between different processes were looked for. This paper is devoted to the assessment and analysis of the interaction of business processes related to the implementation of one engineering project. The paper presents the results of research carried out in relation to four coexisting business processes in a manufacturing company - with assumption that the four analyzed business processes are located within one project. Business processes were defined on the basis of areas determined in the Big Picture analysis (in Value Stream Mapping analysis). As indicators of the impact of business process elements, the correlation coefficient was taken into account, the value of which determined the impact (or lack of impact) between the components of the various business processes. It has been noticed that the attributes from process 1 (Launching the project implementation) and process 2 (Scheduling and project management) show a very strong and strong correlation with the attributes in other processes 3 (Management and supply of materials) and 4 (Production and distribution). On the basis of the presented results, the critical points of the information / decision flow between the coexisting business processes have been indicated.

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This paper discusses the interactions between four business processes related to the implementation of an engineering project, using correlation coefficients to determine the impact of these business process elements. The study found strong correlations between some business processes and identified critical points in the information/decision flow between these coexisting business processes.