What it costs to let it slide.
Calculate the hidden loss in your organisation. Use the calculator to estimate the cost of non-value-adding activities. Amounts are in euros (EUR).
Adjust to your situation
Employees in the department/process you want to optimise
Include salary, pension, insurance and premises costs
Time spent waiting, searching, correcting errors, duplicated work and other non-value-adding activities. The number is yours, not ours: we have no measured figure for your industry, and an average from another company says nothing about you. To replace the estimate with a measurement, that is what a value stream map is for.
Excluding holidays, public holidays and sickness
Your annual loss
Based on the current wasted-time percentage
Wasted hours/year
8,510 hours
Loss per employee
€15,000
Illustrative savings potential
Three scenarios with reduced wasted time
The scenarios are illustrative. Actual potential depends on the company’s starting point, process type and effort.
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Write to usWhere does the wasted time come from?
Waiting
For information, approvals, materials or colleagues
Searching
For documents, data, tools or the right person
Correcting errors
Rework, corrections and handling errors from earlier steps
Overproduction
Work that isn’t requested or used
Method: the categories follow Taiichi Ohno’s seven wastes from the Toyota Production System (Japanese edition 1978, English 1988). We put no figure on each category. The distribution depends on process type and starting point, and a number we have not measured at your site is a guess however precisely it is written down.