Definition

SIPOC is a high-level, visual diagram (tool) for documenting all the relevant elements of a process. It is used to define: suppliers, inputs, outputs, and customers within a process SIPOC (also known as SIPOC-R) stands for:

• Suppliers: Systems, people or organizations (internal or external) that provide the materials, technology or information necessary to make the process occur.
• Inputs: Materials, information or other resources the suppliers provide that are consumed or transformed in the process.
• Process: High-level actions or activities that transform the inputs into the outputs.
• Outputs: Products or services that the process produces and the customer uses.
• Customer: The main users of the process’s output
• Requirements: Specifications for the inputs and output in a process which are necessary to complete the process from the viewpoint of the customer of the inputs or outputs.

Use When:

1. Beginning an improvement project, to understand the basics that make up the process.
2. Determining the boundaries or scope of a project.
3. Gathering information that can be useful in building lower level process maps.
4. Recording collective knowledge about a process.
5. Defining a new process.

Instructions

• How to Create a SIPOC
• Identifying High-Level Requirements Using SIPOC

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