The process of achieving operational excellence is a rewarding journey for companies that want to dramatically impact their customer focus, increase profits and build a culture of continuous process improvement.

Periodic assessments provide a critical baseline as to an organization's current performance and opportunities for improvement. 

Most traditional applications of continuous improvement programs, methods and tools have focused on manufacturing operations and paid little to no attention to the supporting activities that have to take place before an order actually is released to the shop floor. 

In fact, across industries these activities account for an estimated 60 - 90% of the quoted lead time and account for the majority of order execution errors.

What is most important in 2012 is how well manufacturers implement strategy into daily execution.

The Enterprise Value Stream Analysis (EVSA) is a combination of methods, tools and techniques used to analyze a business processes and to prescribe a plan with timeline and assignments for transforming the process to achieve breakthrough results.

Outstanding operational gains have been achieved by companies that embedded lean into their business; however, achieving the objectives and goals of the organization cannot be realized from within the four-walls of the business.

Certain specific major gains require a business to aggressively migrate their programs beyond their four-walls and into their extended supply chain partners including their customers.