Lean Green Belt for professionals

Three days of lean craftsmanship, one real improvement project, zero management buzzwords.

The Lean Green Belt for Professionals is the three-day learning course offered by the Supply Value Academy: structurally improving processes through value stream analysis, eliminating waste, and ensuring improvements. Participants carry out their own improvement project and conclude with the Lean Green Belt certification from the Supply Value Academy.

Why this training

Lean has a tainted image among some people: post-its, daily starts and then business as usual. It’s a shame, because the core, seeing waste and eliminating it with the people who do the work, is still the fastest route to processes that actually work.

This Green Belt is built for professionals, not for certificate hunters: three days of technology and behavior, and in between a real improvement project in your own organization. You only get the certificate when the project is complete, and then you immediately have something to celebrate.

You can do this afterwards

  • You map out a process using value stream analysis and see where time, money, and energy are being wasted.
  • You apply the core lean techniques: 5S, standardization, flow, pull, and visual management.
  • You use data to find the causes instead of fighting the symptoms.
  • You lead a problem-solving project towards a guaranteed result, including involving colleagues.

Target group

Professionals and (team) leaders who want to improve processes in industry, healthcare, logistics or service provision, from quality worker to operational manager.

Prerequisites: No lean-related prior knowledge is required; however, you will be working on a process in your own work that you want to improve (that will be your improvement project).

Program

  • Lean thinking without dogma: value, waste and respect for work (with the Value Process Management Model of Supply Value as a framework)
  • Value stream analysis: your process on the wall, from customer request to delivery
  • Recognize the eight wastefulnesss in your own process
  • Start improvement project: problem definition and zero measurement
  • Cause analysis: from the complaint to the root cause (and the data you need for that)
  • Improvement techniques: flow, pull, standard work and visual management
  • Interim improvement projects: intervising and adjusting
  • The behavioral aspect: improving with the team rather than over the team
  • Maintenance: how improvements survive when you're not there to oversee them
  • Continuously improving organization: from project to rhythm
  • Presentation of the improvement projects + certification Lean Green Belt

Trainer

Niek Wattel, Supply Value
Niek Wattel

Your trainers conduct lean and improvement processes at production, healthcare and service organizations, including Niek Wattel [verify]. They themselves regularly visit the workplace, and you can hear that in every example.

Frequently asked questions

The names are similar, but not the content: the Lean Green Belt focuses on process improvement using lean techniques (for each field of expertise), while the Inkoop Green Belt is level 2 of our purchasing training program. If you’re unsure about which one is right for you, give us a call; we’ll explain it in two minutes.

It is a certificate from the Supply Value Academy, linked to a demonstrably implemented improvement project, and it is precisely the latter that makes an impression on employers. There is no legally protected Green Belt title; the value lies in what you can show.

Practical information

€ 1,895 p.p., excluding VAT

€ 3,950 per group per day (up to 8 participants; hall and catering provided by the client)

Duration
3 training days spread over ± 7 weeks, with an improvement project between the days
Next date
4 March 2027
Location
Zeist (office), another location by arrangement, or in-house at your location
Training format
Open registration and in-house
Educational level
HBO
Group size
Maximum of 12 participants
Study tax
3 training days + approximately 3 hours per week for your improvement project
Language
Dutch
Certificate
Lean Green Belt certificate (Supply Value Academy), upon completion of the improvement project
Sector focus
All sectors (accent industry & healthcare)
Bookability
Open registration according to the scheduled dates. Without scheduled dates, the training can only be booked in-house.
Included
Training material, certificate and lunch
Payment
Invoice immediately after registration; payment term 14 days

Prices exclude VAT · free cancellation up to 4 weeks in advance

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