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Scenario · Organics Processing

Map the organics receival to product value stream

You are the organics team leader at the Windsor facility.

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The situation

What has happened

Lead time from receival of organics to release of finished compost at Windsor has grown from eight weeks to eleven, and the maturation pad is full. Product testing results take up to ten days to come back and batches wait for release. Screening is done in campaigns when the screen is free from the mulch line. Bronwyn Tate believes the constraint is the screen but the crew think it is the testing turnaround. Before a capital request for more pad space, she wants the value stream mapped with the crew from receival to release, the waiting and the constraint identified from data in the loads register and the sample register, and a target state with actions on the A3 template.

Your brief. Map the current state of the organics value stream with the crew using measured data, identify where material waits and why, find the constraint, design a target state that reduces lead time without capital where possible and record the actions in the improvement register.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • Current state value stream map with data
  • Constraint analysis
  • Completed A3 with root cause and target state
  • Improvement register entries with owners and dates

Documents to use

Systems to use

Continuous Improvement Register

Tracks improvement actions from every site and program with owner, due date, status and measured benefit.

Inbound Loads and Contamination Register

Records every inbound load with customer, material, weights, contamination and outcome for both processing sites.

Environmental Sample and Monitoring Register

Tracks every field sample, windrow temperature record and monitoring result from collection to reported result and compliance check.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Sustainability as at 10 September 2026.

MSS403056Map an internal value stream
MSS403057Map an operational process
MSS403026Work within a constrained process
MSS403014Facilitate team engagement with competitive systems and practices
MSS403037Implement the visual workplace

Qualifications

MSS40322Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and Practices
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

Look for a current state map built from observation and register data rather than assumption, waiting times quantified, the constraint identified by comparing capacity with demand and the two hypotheses tested honestly, a root cause with evidence and a target state that is measurable. Actions must be entered in the register with owners and dates and the crew must have been involved.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.