From: Ben Numa, Finance Manager To: Finance Officer Subject: Performance of Weaving Department in November The Senior Management Team (SMT) has asked for a report on the performance of the Weaving Department. Attached in Table 1 are some of the production variances for the Weaving Department for November. We have been developing a real time Key Performance Indicator (KPI) dashboard for production. It isn't yet available in real time, but I have prepared a dashboard to cover the same period as the variances (Table 2 attached). I have spoken to Terry Amos, Head of Production, who told me that: In October, Oleg Scragg, Production Director, signed up new supplier for some of the yarn used in production. The yarn from this supplier was used in production from the start of November. There was significant weaving machinery downtime in November as shown in the KPI dashboard. Some scheduled maintenance of the machinery was delayed in the month due to employee shortages in the Maintenance Department.