Technical name: SAP_BW_0ROLE_0065

The plant manager has overall responsibility for the plant, that is, cost centers, personnel and production and has primarily administrative tasks and a management function. They adjust the goals defined for the plant to coincide with corporate/factory goals, the superior supply chain and also the subordinate areas. They make investment decisions and are responsible for budget and personnel planning, taking central planning into account as well as coordinating with the areas involved.

They use various forms of analysis to check whether the following goals are being attained:

• Budget or cost planning is adhered to

• Adequate headcount is ensured

• Production plan is adhered to (dates, quantities and product quality)

• Long-term process improvements are made

The plant manager has administrative as well as operative management functions. To accomplish these tasks, BW provides business content information in the form of workbooks. Each task corresponds to a cluster of one or more workbooks. The workbooks contain one or more queries that yield the relevant information. The tasks (clusters) are logically grouped together into task areas (subchannels). The following workbooks are available for the plant manager: