Driving Transparency and Efficiency in the Mining Industry with SAP
Background
Our client is a prominent mining and processing company in the metallurgical industry, located in the Central Asia region, focused on the full-cycle production of ilmenite concentrate.
The project aims to ensure transparency in production processes and consistency in material and technical planning to enhance operational efficiency.
Challenges
- Have complete and reliable information about production processes online
- Normalize ore consumption based on the production of past periods
- Reduce the number of primary documents generated by hand and simplify the system’s user interface
Solution Highlights
- Actual data on production orders (ore mining, production of ilmenite concentrate) day-to-day. Employing a smart business tool to analyze the plan and subsequent consumption of resources (plan-fact analysis).
- Automation of the actual norm calculations
- Minimization of the number of production orders, automatic write-off of raw materials and confirmation of resources when releasing finished products.
- Deploying the ergonomic Fiori user interface.
Key Results
- The efficiency of obtaining production reports has been increased by 30 times (now online and before implementation at the end of the month)
- The possession of complete and reliable information about production processes in online mode is now available
- Significantly reduced work with paper documents
- The cost price and product structure are known at the end of the month