Technical name: SAP_BW_PRODDIR_PROD_ANALYSIS

The production director has complete responsibility for production in a company or business area. He receives and consolidates the requirements forecast for the different product groups together with sales and distribution as well as the business areas involved. Based on this information as well as in coordination with sales and distribution and the business areas, he carries out long-term planning/sales and operations planning for product groups and process groups across all production levels and plants. He checks and optimizes the master production schedule in view of material and resource availability and costs, discusses it with the plants concerned as well as with purchasing, and adjusts it accordingly.

The production director influences product, storage, and maintenance strategies, and initiates process improvements and capacity adjustments. He also makes sure that decision-makers in the company or the executive board reach a consensus concerning any critical deviations or changes.

The production director has responsibility for the cost center and personnel responsibility for his employees.

He uses various analyses to check whether the following goals are being attained:

• Adherence to budget or cost planning
• Adherence to a production plan (dates, quantities)
• Ensuring a sufficient availability of personnel/resources
• Attainment of the required product quality

Production directors have administrative management functions and carry 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 production managers: