A Case Study on Impact of Value Stream Mapping as a Lean Diagnostic Tool on the operational performance of a Medium Enterprise

India's quest is to stand out as a Global Manufacturing Hub, demands uncompromised contribution from the Small and Medium Enterprises. The Government of India has formulated various Policies under the Make in India Initiative that help industries achieve this international repute. Policies like Financial Support to MSMEs in ZED Certification Scheme, National Manufacturing Competitiveness Programme (NMCP), Lean. Manufacturing Competitiveness for MSMEs, Technology and Quality Upgradation Support to MSMEs are a few to name, aligned to the goal of making India a Global Manufacturing Hub. The Government in partnership with the Overseas Human Resources Development Association (HIDA), Japan, and Confederation of Indian Industry is operating training programmes to enhance production management capability in the Indian manufacturing industry in order to achieve the idea of ''Make in India" through Japanese-style Management. This is where the Principles of Lean Manufacturing come into action. Lean has a Customer oriented approach that focuses on elimination of non-value added activities in the process, making the system more robust in terms of Quality, Delivery, Productivity and Cost. Value Stream Mapping is a diagnostic tool that helps identify the non-value added activities in the present state of the Enterprise Eliminating these nosn-value added activities leads to an improved efficiency. The research paper intends to demonstrate a case of a manufacturing industry, who used Value Stream Mapping as a diagnostic tool. After the diagnosis based on the current state of the value strewn various lean tools were implemented to achieve a significant improvement in the operational performance of the organization. This case study presents how value stream mapping can help identify operational areas of improvement and channelize organizations to achieve significant improvements in their performance