Manufacturing reporting your leaders can trust — Power BI dashboards in Brisbane
Brisbane-based, operator-led reporting support for manufacturing 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 manufacturing clients in Brisbane and Queensland. Numbers are illustrative — yours land in the same layout once we connect your data sources.
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Manufacturing reporting in Brisbane and Queensland
Brisbane and wider Queensland manufacturing businesses often juggle ERP data, production systems, maintenance logs, quality records, and spreadsheet-based shift reporting across multiple teams.
The numbers that decide a manufacturing week - OEE, OTIF and cost per unit - are produced by SAP, MES platforms and SQL Server, 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 plant and operational 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 weekly production review. The plant manager brings shift data from a spreadsheet. Finance has different cost numbers from the ERP. Quality has deviation counts from a separate system. Thirty minutes in, the meeting is still reconciling numbers instead of deciding where to focus improvement effort. This reporting is built so that meeting starts with a single trusted view of OEE, yield, cost per unit, and variance - and the conversation moves straight to action.
Who this reporting is built for
Plant Manager
- Cares about
- OEE, throughput, and shift performance
- Frustrated by
- waiting until month-end to see production variance
- Needs to decide
- line priorities, maintenance scheduling, and labour allocation
Operations Manager
- Cares about
- cross-site performance and delivery reliability
- Frustrated by
- reconciling production, quality, and dispatch data manually
- Needs to decide
- where to focus improvement effort across sites and shifts
Quality Manager
- Cares about
- deviation trends, batch conformance, and scrap rates
- Frustrated by
- quality data trapped in separate systems from production reporting
- Needs to decide
- root cause investigation priorities and corrective actions
CFO / Finance Manager
- Cares about
- cost per unit, margin by product line, and capex tracking
- Frustrated by
- production and finance numbers that never match first time
- Needs to decide
- cost reduction focus, product profitability, and capital allocation
Supply Chain Manager
- Cares about
- OTIF, inventory accuracy, and supplier delivery
- Frustrated by
- no reliable view of stock, demand, and procurement in one place
- Needs to decide
- supplier actions, reorder points, and safety stock adjustments
Maintenance Manager
- Cares about
- planned vs unplanned downtime and asset reliability
- Frustrated by
- CMMS data that does not connect to production impact
- Needs to decide
- PM schedules, breakdown priorities, and spares investment
What's going wrong now
The ERP says one cost number. The plant spreadsheet says another. Finance has a third.
The weekly production review loses its first 30 minutes to data reconciliation.
Quality data lives in a completely separate system from production performance.
Downtime is logged but never surfaced alongside throughput and cost impact.
One analyst carries the entire reporting load - and they are on leave next week.
What changes after this is built
Common manufacturing reporting problems
Pronto and MYOB Advanced each hold part of the same answer and disagree on the total
Scrap and labour efficiency 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
OTIF 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 manufacturing reporting takes longer than reviewing it does
Planned versus actual is weak across shifts, lines, sites and assets
Inventory accuracy is visible per site but not comparable between them
What changes
What this work typically achieves
What that usually looks like in Manufacturing
What people notice day to day
Used in daily shift handovers
OEE numbers no longer debated in meetings
Plant manager reviews performance before the morning walk
Book a reporting clarity call
You'll leave with a written action plan: speed issues, KPI drift, governance gaps, and a practical 30-day fix path.
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 manufacturing reporting.
ERP and finance platforms
Operational and plant systems
Data interfaces and files
What we build for manufacturing 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 manufacturing 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.
Why Roar Data for manufacturing reporting
We have worked inside manufacturing environments - sitting in the production meetings, reviewing shift handover data, and reconciling ERP output with plant-floor reality. That is why the reporting we build survives first contact with the operations team.
Brisbane and Queensland manufacturing businesses get a consultant who understands plant-level KPIs like OEE, yield, and cost per unit - not just how to connect data sources.
The reporting is shaped around the decisions plant managers, operations managers, and finance teams actually make - not around a template.
Manufacturing reporting FAQs
Which systems can you connect Power BI to for manufacturing reporting?
Which manufacturing reporting metrics do you model first?
Can you fix an existing manufacturing Power BI setup rather than rebuild it?
Can you report across multiple sites?
Do you need to understand manufacturing reporting to build it?
Talk through your manufacturing 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.
Our services
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Practical Power BI training for Brisbane teams that need reports to be maintainable, commercially useful, and easier to run day to day.
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