Translate operational reality into numbers: standards, usage, efficiency, and spending. Help ops teams prioritize actions and improve results.
🛠️ Site mastery: Understand what truly drives variances instead of chasing noise.
🤝 Better cadence: Align with Ops on drivers, actions, and follow-through through one shared routine.
🏭 Better outcomes: Improve site decision quality so losses and inefficiencies become visible and addressable.
Plant controller and cost accountant owning standard costs, variances, and site planning for a manufacturing or operations site.
FP&A analyst and business unit controller supporting site reviews across multiple plants and needing consistent driver language.
Knowledge: Basic standard costing concepts and exposure to manufacturing or operations performance measures.
Tools: Access to ERP or cost data plus a spreadsheet tool for variance and driver analysis.
Explain how standards link to plant economics and KPIs.
Analyze manufacturing variances and trace operational drivers fast.
Use driver logic in site budgets, outlooks, and reviews.
Lead site reviews that end with actions and owners.
Eligibility: currently not eligible
Watch time: about 3 hours
Total learning: about 4.5 hours
Estimated credits: 3.0