Technical name: SAP_BW_0ROLE_0064

The production director has overall responsibility for production in a company or in a business area. They receive and consolidate the requirements forecast for the different product groups, together with Sales and Distribution and the affected business areas. On this basis, and working with Sales and Distribution and the business areas, they carry out long-term planning/Sales and Operations planning for product and process groups across all production levels and plants. They check and optimize the production plan in terms of material/resource availability and costs and communicate this to the plants involved and Purchasing, adjusting the plan accordingly.

The production director influences product, storage and maintenance strategies and initiates capacity adjustments and process improvements. When critical deviations or changes occur, they make sure the decision-makers or the executive board agree to them.

The production director is responsible for the entire cost center as well as having personnel responsibility for his employees.

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

• Budget or cost planning is adhered to

• Production plan is adhered to (dates, quantities)

• Sufficient availability of personnel/resources is ensured

• Required product quality is maintained

The production director has administrative management functions and carries out production and quality analyses. 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 production director: