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Mr Benno Giuliani

" We selected SolveIT Software for Integrated Planning of the NCA demand chain..."
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"We selected SolveIT Software for Integrated Planning of the NCA demand chain as they are experienced in optimising complex and dynamic logistics processes. The NCA coal chain is a key asset in the Xstrata Coal Australia portfolio and is set for significant expansion in coming years. Ensuring we exceed customer expectations through optimisation of value, quality, quantity and cost of XCQ's coal products is our primary goal, and logistics optimisation initiatives across our systems landscape is a key driver for improved commercial and operational outcomes."
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Transport and Logistics Manager
Xstrata Coal
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Mr Stuart Spicer

" SolveIT Software has a proven track record of dealing with complex supply chains, and has delivered on time and on budget for our implementation requirement..."
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With the rapid ramp up in throughput achieved to date and expansions underway to increase production to 155 million tonnes per annum, Fortescue required an integrated planning, scheduling and optimisation capability that could deliver one view of the enterprise for supply chain planning and scheduling. Given the requirement to manage moving bottlenecks during multiple growth phases, and a dynamically changing operating environment around factors such as weather, production variability, and market demand, we needed an enterprise system that could handle this complexity while being highly user friendly for a range of stakeholders from the mine, rail, and port operations of our business. SolveIT Software has a proven track record of dealing with complex supply chains, and has delivered on time and on budget for our implementation requirement.
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Manager of Integrated Planning
Fortescue
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Mr Peter Bates Xstrata Copper

" We recognize the world-best optimisation science upon which SolveIT Software's planning & scheduling applications are based..."
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We recognize the world-best optimisation science upon which SolveIT Software's planning & scheduling applications are based, along with the deep domain knowledge they bring to the table in a multitude of complex, vertically integrated, push/pull supply chains. For these reasons, Xstrata Copper and Xstrata Zinc have selected SolveIT Software for optimising the end-to-end copper, zinc, lead, and magnetite supply chains in Australia, from mine planning all the way through to ship loading.
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CIO
Xstrata Copper

Mining Logistics, Mining Supply Chain and Mine to Port Optimisation

Mine-to-Port Logistics Optimisation

Mining companies often have many disparate systems and repositories of data in their organisation for planning and scheduling outbound mining supply chains. To optimise and streamline aspects such as ore quality, throughput transport logistics scheduling and delivery to contract, they need to model and manage the value chain accurately to achieve a consolidated, enterprise view of operational performance.

In the bulk commodities, minerals, metals and trading industries, mine logistics planning staff coordinate a complex series of activates to ensure production forecast accuracy. Sales and marketing staff negotiate and execute complex contracts often with disconnected and limited visibility of production forecasts, quality, and variability with little ability to accurately market potential product specifications over longer time horizons.

SolveIT Software's planning processes Supply Chain Network Optimiser (SCNO) configured for mine-to-port operations is a highly flexible, user-configurable supply chain management system for the mining and metal processing industries. SCNO has specific functionality for a range of mining environments, including stockpile management, advanced blending, transport scheduling, demand and supply planning, maintenance planning, scenario management, trade-off analysis, intelligent reporting and automated notification.

Through our extensive work in vertically integrated supply chains, SolveIT Software has developed a specialisation in "global" or "cross-silo" optimisation. Developed on this type of logic from the ground up, our Supply Chain Network Optimiser (SCNO) provides a "One-Version-of-the-Truth" view of a given supply chain and optimises across all known variables to provide a "business best" outcome, rather than a "silo optimised" result:

Pit-to-Port, Mining Supply Chain, Mining Logistics Optimisation

Best practise for enterprise planning and optimisation within a mining applications environment separates the planning horizon from other business applications. This provides the capability to plan and optimise any area of a mining supply chain independent of ERP/EAM, MES, and SCADA, aligning with SOA objectives and ISA-95 principles. SolveIT Software's Supply Chain Network Optimiser (SCNO) follows these principles. As a single enterprise application, SolveIT Software Supply Chain Network Optimiser (SCNO) can provide an overview of the entire mining supply chain, giving planning personnel accurate, up-to-date information at their fingertips and enabling optimisation of the various planning processes in an integrated view.