Value Stream Mapping to Identify the Impact of Waste in the Process

At the beginning Value Stream Mapping (VSM) was used as a methodology which identifies waste time and unneeded actions occurring in the process. But now a day's VSM is being used as a re-engineer business for identifying the unnecessary work and resources being used for the process of the operation. This study is about the Akshaya Patra Foundation, a non-profit organization with the vision that no child shall be deprived of education because of hunger, runs the largest mid-day meal program in the world. The main objective is to find process cycle efficiency as well as the process lead time of production by using VSM. The Problem definition is that, since 2016 the product cost is increasing above Rs.3.06 per meal which is effecting the operating cost of the company. Due to this increase, the strategy to monitor the performance by using VSM method becomes crucial, the design of the System of Core Competencies has to be adapted to provide the Scalabililt and Service to inturn ensure its Sustainabililty. The main goal of this is eliminating the rigorous impact of the waste by using the strategy of Muda, Muri and Mura.