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Appendix 4: Using Your Value Stream Map

for Green Initiatives and Risk Management

Lean and green go hand and hand. Lean focuses on ways to reduce waste within an

organization, and green thinking focuses on reducing wastes as well. We’ll look at

ways to determine where these green-related wastes enter into your business, how to

measure them, and the steps you can take to eliminate them. We’ll also look at sus-

tainability issues, including product and packaging returns, as well as energy-related

green issues.

Although many companies include green thinking in their value stream mapping

(VSM), just as many companies don’t. Normally, you would add this process to your

value stream map as an associated process, but we are going to focus solely ...