Production Reporting

Purpose of Production Reporting

- Production reporting provides feedback of what is actually happening on the plant floor. It allows PAC to maintain valid records of on-hand and on-order balances, job status, shortages, scrap, material shortages, and so on. Production activity control needs this information to establish proper priorities and to answer questions regarding deliveries, shortages, and the status of orders. Manufacturing management needs this information to make decisions about plant operation. Payroll needs this information to calculate employees’ pay.

- Data must be collected, sorted, and reported. The particular data collected depend upon the needs of the various departments. The methods of data collection vary. Sometimes the operator reports the start and completion of an operation, order, movement, and so on, using an on-line system directly reporting events as they occur via data terminals. In other cases, the operator, supervisor, or timekeeper reports this information on an operation reporting form included in the shop packet. Information about inventory withdrawals and receipts must be reported as well.

- Once the data are collected, they must be sorted, and appropriate reports produced. Types of information needed for the various reports include:

1. Order status.
2. Weekly input/output by department or work center.
3. Exception reports on such things as scrap, rework, and late shop orders.
4. Inventory status.
5. Performance summaries on order status, work center and department efficiencies, and so on

Credit by : Aishah