13 templates
SIPOC templates
The Six Sigma scoping diagram — Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs, Customers — as five aligned columns with the process steps as a spine across the middle. Optional `requirements:` rows attach CTQ criteria to inputs and outputs, so the chart that usually says what a process touches also says what 'good' means for each one. The first artefact of every DMAIC define phase.
SIPOC — Inpatient Discharge
Scopes ward discharge from the consultant's decision to the released bed across six steps, naming the three inputs and two outputs that carry no stated requirement and measuring the 7.5-hour decision-to-departure time against its 4-hour target.
Lean & FlowSIPOC — Injection Moulding Cell
Fixes the boundary of a seven-step moulding cell from resin release to finished-goods booking, checking both scope ends against the process and scoring three tiles — 3.2% scrap against a 1.5% target, 47 s cycle against 42 s, 34-minute changeover against 20.
Lean & FlowSIPOC — Sev-1 Incident Response
Written in the terse s/i/p/o/c dialect with a prose scope sentence, this map bounds payments incident response at seven steps and shows the 68-minute mitigation time missing its 30-minute target while acknowledgement beats its own.
Operations & OpsSIPOC — Accounts Payable Invoice to Pay
Bounds shared-services accounts payable at six steps from invoice capture to payment release, naming the two inputs and two outputs with no stated requirement behind an 11-day cycle time and a 74% first-time match rate.
Business & StrategySIPOC — Cold Chain Vaccine Despatch
Builds its supplier and input columns across two openers plus a bullet list, scoping 2-8 C vaccine despatch at six steps with only three of its six inputs carrying a stated requirement and 6 temperature excursions per 1,000 shipments against a target of 2.
Operations & OpsSIPOC — Undergraduate Enrolment
Uses a numbered continuation list for its six process steps and a prose scope sentence, showing that four of the five enrolment outputs carry no stated requirement while only 81% of students register by day one against a 95% target.
Operations & OpsSIPOC — Offshore Turbine Service
Declares its critical inputs with the ctq shorthand rather than a trailing marker, bounding a seven-step offshore service window and computing the 23 technician hours against a 16-hour target and 78% right-first-time against 90%.
Lean & FlowSIPOC — Householder Planning Permission
Scopes a local authority planning determination at six steps from validation to decision notice, reporting the two inputs and two outputs without a stated requirement behind a 71% eight-week determination rate and a 47% invalid-on-submission rate.
Business & StrategySIPOC — Omnichannel Apparel Returns
A deliberately mis-bounded charter: the scope ends at the refund but the process carries on to restocking, so the engine confirms the start boundary and flags the end as running past its own limit alongside an 8-day refund cycle against a 3-day target.
Operations & OpsSIPOC — Clinical Trial Site Activation
Bounds phase III site start-up at seven steps from site qualification to first patient screened, with three of its six inputs carrying a stated requirement and the 137-day activation cycle measured against a 90-day target.
Project & PlanningSIPOC — Blood Bank Unit Issue
Scopes red cell issue from an authorised request to a unit collected at the fridge across seven steps, scoring a 96-minute request-to-collection time against a 60-minute target and a 2.9% wastage rate.
Lean & FlowSIPOC — Narrowbody Aircraft Turnaround
Bounds a 25-minute A320 turnaround at eight steps from on-blocks to off-blocks, showing 34-minute actual turn time and a 71% on-time departure rate against the inputs nobody wrote a requirement for.
Operations & OpsSIPOC — Clinical Coding to Invoice
Written in the terse s/i/p/o/c dialect, this map scopes hospital activity from discharge summary to commissioner invoice and exposes a 26-day coding lag behind a 92% first-pass invoice rate target.
Business & Strategy