Describe FIVE benefits of process mapping.  

Process mapping includes constructing a flowchart representation indicating processes that shows how a product or transaction is processed and the flows of information or products across supply chains and networks. Some advantages are given below:

Management understanding

Permits a better understanding of the basic processes that are undertaken, so giving management with a convenient overview demonstrating responsibilities and key stages in the supply chain.

Role understanding

Permits workers to understand what their job is and how their work fits into the all process (and therefore the importance of undertaking their role effectively). Process mapping also permits consideration of role reallocation.

Standardisation

Highlights where opportunities exist to standardise processes and strengthen practices by simple depiction.

Highlights inefficiencies

Visually highlights areas where inefficiencies are present by analysis of queues, value and location, so pinpointing areas of waste. This provides an agenda to tackle duplication of effort, the requirement to total unnecessary paperwork, and misdirected queries that hold up production, etc.