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Managing production

Module leader: Caroline Hiller

Module content

(i) A guide to production processes and materials

• Colour and repro
• Print
• Distribution
• Different ways of buying paper

(ii) Managing the flatplan

• Who should own the flatplan?
• Effective ways to control the process

(iii) Workflow patterns and schedules

• What functions can be handled in-house?
• Managing the schedule

(iv) Understanding and managing cost

• Cost implications of day-to-day decisions such as print order levels, pagination, editorial ratios
• Understanding and influencing the costs of your production contracts and invoices and production expenditure reports

(v) Suppliers

• How to improve communication and negotiations with suppliers

(vi) The role of production controller

• Defining the responsibilities and roles of production staff
• Improving production performance
• Improving production costs on titles