Always start with a SIPOC is a mantra many of us steeped in Six Sigma have heard a lot. There is some truth to having a good visual diagram that helps define a system or project. As this blog will be discussing change management and change control quite a bit, here is a SIPOC that governs change control.

This SIPOC represents change control from the perspective of a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. But this will apply to many manufacturing industries, though the focus on regulatory might shift.