Swim Lane Cross Functional Flowchart

The Swim Lane Cross Functional Flowchart shows the relationship between a business process and the departments/people responsible for each step. It serves as a powerful way to improve the flow of a process, by providing clarity and accountability of different functional units.

In addition, it displays connections and communications between each unit, and therefore facilitates standardization and consistency of the process through visualization, analysis and elimination of delays and waste.

When to use your Swimlane template?
This is an ideal tool for service and administrative processes that get handed over between teams, such as sales orders, proposals, quotes, purchasing, engineering changes, and financial statement month-end close.

The Systems2win Excel-based template goes beyond a simple flow diagram by performing powerful calculations for you. Using the Swim Lane Cross Functional Flowchart template, you can analyze lead time, queue time, steps, process time, value add time, cycle time, takt time, staffing requirements, and process capacity.

One of the primary reasons for creating a cross functional flowchart is to identify and eliminate barriers to flow. What are the most common barriers to flow?

Why use your Swim Lane Diagram template?

1. To visualize, analyze, and eliminate delays and waste: to improve the flow of a process that is worked on by multiple workers or teams
2. To serve as standard work:to standardize the consistency of a process that crosses between functional teams or departments
3. To do what Visio can’t – (math) : If all that you want is art for your wall, then Visio will draw an attractive swimlane flowchart. If you want to Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control your process flows, then you will need math for things like cycle time, takt time, process time, lead time, smallest possible staff, and capacity. And perhaps different scenarios, for things like rush orders, or any differences in the ways that things sometimes flow. That’s why you use this Excel swim lane cross functional flowchart – a powerful drawing tool that does useful math.

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