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Power BI dashboards for Aerospace & Defence teams in Brisbane

Brisbane-based, operator-led reporting support for aerospace & defence teams that need clearer KPIs, less manual reporting, and numbers the business can trust.

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A working illustration of the reporting we typically build for aerospace & defence clients in Brisbane and Queensland. Numbers are illustrative — yours land in the same layout once we connect your data sources.

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Aerospace & Defence reporting in Brisbane and Queensland

Aerospace and defence reporting often combines project controls, quality, compliance, procurement, manufacturing, and executive reporting requirements that need disciplined traceability.

The numbers that decide an aerospace and defence week - inventory accuracy, gross margin and OEE - are produced by SCADA, CSV extracts and SAP, which were bought at different times to solve different problems and were never meant to be read together. So they get reconciled by hand, and the answer arrives after the shift it was supposed to inform.

We connect those sources directly, agree what each metric counts before anyone builds a visual, and hand regulated engineering and programme-led teams reporting that refreshes on its own. The measure of success is that the meeting opens on what to do, not on whether the figures are right.

The meeting this is built for

The programme review. Each programme manager presents status in different formats. Quality has nonconformance data from the QMS. Finance has earned value from the project system. The programme director cannot see delivery risk, quality status, and financial performance across programmes. This reporting is built so the programme review starts with earned value, quality metrics, and delivery status - across all active programmes.

Who this reporting is built for

CEO / Managing Director

Cares about
overall business performance visibility
Frustrated by
fragmented reporting across departments
Needs to decide
strategic priorities and resource allocation

CFO / Finance Manager

Cares about
financial accuracy and reporting efficiency
Frustrated by
manual month-end processes
Needs to decide
cost control and capital allocation

Operations Manager

Cares about
day-to-day performance tracking
Frustrated by
delayed and unreliable operational data
Needs to decide
process improvement and staffing

Department Heads

Cares about
team accountability and KPI clarity
Frustrated by
inconsistent metrics and manual reporting
Needs to decide
resource allocation and corrective actions

What's going wrong now

Operational and financial data live in different systems with different definitions.

The weekly review loses time reconciling numbers instead of making decisions.

One person carries the entire reporting load.

Issues are discovered after the reporting period closes, not during it.

Leadership cannot drill into the numbers without requesting a custom report.

What changes after this is built

The weekly review starts with one trusted view of performance - not a reconciliation exercise.
Managers see issues as they happen, not after the reporting period closes.
Finance and operations work from the same KPI definitions.
Month-end is calmer because reporting builds from the same source as daily operations.
One person no longer carries the entire reporting burden.

Common aerospace & defence reporting problems

MES platforms and SCADA each hold part of the same answer and disagree on the total

Cost per unit and gross margin are calculated differently by finance and operations, and both are defended

Reporting still depends on Excel workbooks, manual checks and copied values

There is no clean single view by site, line, shift and asset

Review meetings lose time validating the data before the decision can start

Variance to plan arrives after the window in which anyone could have acted on it

Too much of the reporting lives with one person, or in one undocumented workbook

Existing Power BI reports are slow, stale, or quietly not trusted

Managers cannot drill into a number without asking someone to rebuild the report

Assembling aerospace and defence reporting takes longer than reviewing it does

Planned versus actual is weak across shifts, lines, sites and assets

Working capital is visible per site but not comparable between them

We work with aerospace & defence teams across Brisbane - Pinkenba, Eagle Farm, Brisbane Airport and Amberley - and across Queensland.

What changes

What this work typically achieves

Reporting time cut by more than half in a typical engagement
Cycles that ran for days completed in one
A stack of spreadsheets replaced by one connected model

What that usually looks like in Aerospace & Defence

Reporting time reduced across the engagement
Leadership now reviews performance from one trusted source
Manual pack preparation eliminated or significantly reduced

What people notice day to day

Used in weekly operational reviews

Numbers no longer debated in meetings

Reporting no longer rebuilt manually each period

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Systems and data sources we connect

Reporting friction often starts because the right data sits across disconnected platforms. We connect the sources that matter for aerospace & defence reporting.

ERP and finance platforms

SAPOracleNetSuiteProntoMYOB AdvancedMicrosoft Dynamics 365

Operational and plant systems

MES platformsSCADAhistorian systemsCMMSquality logsdowntime trackersproduction spreadsheets

Data interfaces and files

SQL ServerCSV extractsExcel workbooksSharePoint listsAPI feedsPower Query staging tables

What we build for aerospace & defence teams

Executive performance dashboards

A shared leadership view across revenue, margin, output, labour, and operational variance.

Daily operational reporting

Shift, line, site, or asset reporting that helps managers respond earlier.

Production and quality dashboards

Yield, scrap, downtime, batch, deviation, and throughput performance in one reporting model.

Inventory and supply reporting

Stock position, purchase visibility, supplier performance, and service risk tracking.

Maintenance reporting

Planned maintenance, breakdowns, backlog, and asset reliability reporting.

Finance and operations bridge reporting

A cleaner link between cost, production, service, and margin outcomes.

Key aerospace & defence KPIs and decision metrics

Operational performance

  • OEE
  • throughput
  • downtime
  • yield
  • scrap
  • labour efficiency

Supply and service

  • OTIF
  • inventory accuracy
  • stock turns
  • supplier performance
  • backlog
  • schedule adherence

Financial impact

  • cost per unit
  • gross margin
  • variance to plan
  • working capital
  • maintenance cost
  • product profitability

What becomes easier after implementation

The value is not only in the dashboard or the data model. It is in what changes day to day once reporting stops being a source of friction.

Scrap, labour efficiency and OTIF available without anyone assembling them first
One agreed definition of inventory accuracy and stock turns, holding across finance, operations and leadership
Less time spent preparing, checking and explaining aerospace and defence reporting
A calmer rhythm around the shift handover, the weekly production review and month-end
Problems visible early enough to act on, rather than explained afterwards
Less dependence on one analyst, one workbook, or one undocumented process

Why Roar Data for aerospace & defence reporting

Aerospace and defence reporting often combines project controls, quality, compliance, procurement, manufacturing, and executive reporting requirements that need disciplined traceability.

That is the environment the reporting has to survive, so we build it around how regulated engineering and programme-led teams actually work - what gets asked in the meeting, what has to reconcile, and what breaks when one person is on leave.

We are Brisbane-based and work across Queensland and the rest of Australia. For aerospace & defence that matters less for proximity than for availability: someone who will sit in the review where the numbers get argued about, rather than only in the handover.

The test is whether the reporting still gets opened six months later without us. If it needs a specialist to maintain, it was built wrong.

Aerospace & Defence reporting FAQs

Which systems can you connect Power BI to for aerospace and defence reporting?
The ones you already run. For aerospace and defence reporting that usually starts with ERP and finance platforms - MYOB Advanced, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP and Oracle - alongside operational and plant systems, data interfaces and files. Where a system has no usable API we work from scheduled extracts.
Which aerospace and defence reporting metrics do you model first?
We start with the numbers already argued about in your meetings, which for aerospace and defence reporting generally fall into operational performance, supply and service, financial impact. That means agreeing exactly what downtime, yield, scrap, labour efficiency and OTIF count, before anyone builds a visual. Two teams using one word for two different calculations is why most reporting quietly stops being trusted.
Can you fix an existing aerospace and defence Power BI setup rather than rebuild it?
Often, yes. We review the model, the DAX and the refresh design, then say honestly which it is. A aerospace and defence report that is slow because of one badly shaped relationship is a repair; one built on assumptions that no longer hold is cheaper to rebuild than to keep patching.
Can you report across multiple sites?
Yes - comparing across sites, lines, shifts and assets is one of the more common reasons regulated engineering and programme-led teams call us. The hard part is never the visuals, it is making each one measure the same thing so the comparison means something.
Do you need to understand aerospace and defence reporting to build it?
Enough to ask the right questions. Aerospace and defence reporting often combines project controls, quality, compliance, procurement, manufacturing, and executive reporting requirements that need disciplined traceability. Reporting that ignores that produces technically correct dashboards nobody opens, so we start in your meetings rather than in Power BI.

Talk through your aerospace & defence reporting

If your reporting still depends on manual work, spreadsheet fixes, or numbers people do not fully trust, we can map out a practical way forward.

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