Technical name: SAP_BW_0ROLE_0083

The production planner is responsible for the conversion of the planning data from the superior supply chain (for example, from the production manager) within a plant or several subordinate production areas / lines.

The production planner ensures that the plant schedule is transparent. He coordinates the use of the plant's resources such as machines/lines, material, and personnel with the goal of requirements coverage that is as complete as possible and on schedule. For this, he breaks down the specifications to plant-level conditions and checks them according to availability and costs. He adjusts any deviations from the plan with production management.

A production planner has the following main tasks:

• Scheduling and optimizing plant resource use
• Monitoring the schedule
• Planning in accordance with plant-wide goals

A production planner performs order and material analyses as well as operation and work center 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 planners: