Coming from a different educational and practical backgrounds, lean practitioners’ and production planners’ view on production system differ – making communication and alignment of improvements difficult. While the former focus on resources and use value stream maps for communication, the latter concentrate on production orders and their interdependencies. Based on the value stream map and the order net, the paper develops a product-production map as a common communications tool to discuss and visualize improvements. The map was successfully tested in a high variety steel production. It could be extended to visualize live data (e.g. from IoT devices) for production control.