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Case study:
Mining Operational Planning
Case study:
Mining Strategic Planning
Case study:
Mining Workforce Planning
Case study:
Mining Portfolio Forecasting

Customer

Challenge

Solution

Value Creation

Customer

  • Tier 1 copper producer
  • Entering a new development phase
  • Seeking to drastically reduce hauling costs
  • Strong site leadership with a focus on continuous improvement projects
  • Top quartile C-1 costs

Challenge

  • To build accurate costs for new mine plans
  • Valuing and tracking improvement projects
  • Allocating and mobilizing resources to achieve C-1 costs improvements
  • Workforce engagement

Solution

  • Implement Mining Operational Planning
  • Capture budgets and baseline data from disconnected sources
  • Run Scenarios to value improvement projects and production plans
  • Evaluate operating strategies to increase mine-life and return in final years of operation

Value Creation

  • Identified $120 Million in operational improvement opportunities
  • Incremental value of each opportunity captured against the baseline forecast
  • Increased ability to achieve cost and production targets
  • Cross-departmental understanding and collaboration on operational projects

Customer

  • Global Iron Ore Producer
  • Evaluating production strategies relative to changing iron ore prices
  • Proactive management to allocate and mobilize resources to achieve targets
  • Integration of production physical data and financial results or forecasts

Challenge

  • Tasked with driving out costs and increasing production by corporate mandate
  • Multiple time-consuming iterations of mine plans run every quarter
  • Complex value chain with multiple mining areas, processing facilities, railways, ports, data sources, and stakeholders

Solution

  • Implement Mining Strategic Planning
  • Integrate mine planning with operational and financial systems
  • Run scenarios on different mine plans to compare financial results
  • Simplified data management and integration with SAP

Value Creation

  • Increased visibility into operating strategies and historical scenarios
  • Assessment of real-time impacts on Free Cash Flow, NPV, and capital spending
  • Increased ability to achieve cost and production targets, improving operational performance
  • Real-time, condensed reporting to international corporate stakeholders

Customer

  • Global Iron Ore Producer
  • Looking for visibility into headcount requirements and forecasts
  • Complex value chain with multiple mining areas, processing facilities, railways, ports, data sources, and stakeholders

Challenge

  • Operational requirements and workforce management were disconnected
  • Financial allocation of accounts based on headcount was inaccurate
  • Needed to maintain sensitive workforce data and salary information
  • Needed flexibility to add mining areas as the business develops

Solution

  • Implement Mining Workforce Planning
  • Create seamless link between mine plans and headcount requirements
  • Run scenarios on different mine plans and contingency assumptions
  • Financial analysis of labor plans to avoid under or over-staffing

Value Creation

  • Proactive management of workforce to ensure operating plan is attainable
  • Increased confidence in headcount forecasts based on historical data
  • Gap analysis between workforce demand and supply drives workforce decision
  • Easy import of mine plans and labor requirement to minimize maintenance of data and scenarios

Customer

  • Tier 1 gold miner
  • Tasked with generating $2B in new revenue from innovation
  • Evaluating dozens of innovation and continuous improvement projects across numerous mines spread across the Americas

Challenge

  • Understanding the true value of innovation projects
  • Managing a multi-million dollar R&D budget across these projects
  • Allocating capital based on project value and results

Solution

  • Implement Mining Portfolio Forecasting
  • Budget integrated with Oracle to forecast R&D and manage project budgets
  • 20+ project managers collaborating on one source
  • Incremental value of each innovation captured

Value Creation

  • Understand relative value of different innovation projects
  • Enhanced prioritization of capital expenditures
  • Increased visibility into budget and results
  • Reduction in time and effort to perform month-end analysis of projects