Production Manager

What are your priorities?
• Production cost and schedule forecasting
• The ability to make proactive staffing decisions
• Having the time to manage and support staff

With Transparent™ all these priorities are met

As a global content production manager, you have many important roles to fulfill; you are involved in the planning, co-ordination, and control of the publication processes, and ensuring that your products are produced efficiently at the right quality, quantity, and cost to the satisfaction of your clients. You may also be involved in a strategic role, estimating future capacity, coordinating the work of planners and project mangers, and liaising with buyers, or sales and engineering staff.
Transparent™ gives you a detailed and comprehensive picture of all the company projects, resource capabilities and utilization, and fiscal matters relating to your sphere of responsibility, to enable you to meet all your responsibilities.

Production cost and schedule forecasting
As no one likes surprises, Transparent™ provides production mangers with real time project reports, enabling advance forecasting of publication schedules and costs. Simple charts graph the progress of all projects showing how events are impacting your original plans. You can therefore be alerted in advance of any productivity issues so you can respond to them promptly. The system also facilitates the communication of performance trends to project and senior managers through easily understood charts and displays.

The ability to make proactive staffing decisions
With Transparent™, employee information is centralized, allowing you to quickly assess data on resource availability, capabilities, and utilization, and other variables that may affect scheduling possibilities, such as the potential capacity of your team. The employee evaluation templates also enable you to make objective staffing decisions.

Having the time to manage and support staff
Production managers often spend so much time on procedural issues that they don’t have the time to provide the guidance and support needed by their team members. Transparent™ provides simple standardized operating procedures for all team members that are easy to follow, freeing production managers to do their real jobs of managing their production and providing specialized assistance to company projects.