Production Manager

What this is about

Crew, gear, locations, permits and transport each have their own lead time. The job is knowing which one becomes the critical path this week.

Every department needs the same plan in a different view. That is exactly where document collections fail: they only ever serve one perspective well.

What runs differently here

In planning terms, that means:

• Permits are granted locally, and processing times differ within the same country
• A company move costs 60 to 120 minutes, of which the drive is the smallest part
• Two moves in one day is where most schedules stop working

What the plan has to deliver

A production plan is useful to this role when it provides the following:

• Every dependency of a change in one view
• Lead times for permits, crew and gear against the same calendar
• Locations with travel time between them, not just addresses
• One distribution list that stays current

Common pitfalls

What most often goes wrong in practice:

• Filing the permit so late that it becomes the condition for the only possible day
• Assuming the grip truck parks where the car does

With TillyGen

TillyGen keeps crew, gear and locations against one schedule, so a change surfaces every dependency it touches.

Change one constraint and the consequences travel through the whole plan: affected shots are flagged, the call sheet is regenerated, and nobody keeps working from yesterday's version.