General activities in Production Operations Management

• Reporting on production including variable manufacturing costs.
• Collecting and maintaining data on production, inventory, manpower, raw materials, spare parts, and energy usage.
• Performing data collection and off-line analysis as required by engineering functions. This may include statistical quality analysis and related control functions.
• Performing needed personnel functions, such as work period statistics (for example, time, task), vacation schedule, work force schedules, union line of progression, and in-house training and personnel qualification.
• Establishing the immediate detailed production schedule for its own area accounting for maintenance, transportation, and other production-related requests.
• Locally optimising the costs for individual production areas while carrying out the production schedule established by the Level 4 functions.
• Modifying production schedules to compensate for plant production interruptions that may occur in its area of responsibility.