Performing a key role in supply chain buffering, storage, metallurgical accounting, quality and blend management as well as being critical to product genealogy, stockpile management performs an integrating function across QMASTOR’s systems.
Stockpile management provides key information on:
- All stockpiles across the supply chain including: ROM, plant feed, product, transport, transit, dedicated and cargo assembly port stockpiles
- Managing stockpiles using a variety of models (algorithmic, zonal, logical) for tracking and visualisation of a material’s storage and quality distribution
- Accurately predicting reclaimed quality/grade from stockpiles, for blend planning and supply chain scheduling
- Automatically calculating, upon completion of stockpile movement transactions, all associated stockpile tonnage and quality/grade balances
- Historical stockpile balances and predicted future stockpile tonnage and grade balances.
- Users can drill down to view individual parcels on and movement transactions that have impacted a stockpile
- Stockpile adjustments with full audit capability
- Remnant management
- Product genealogy - tracking across the full supply chain and through stockpiles
- Automated data collection from process plants/stackers/reclaimers/mobile equipment/laboratories/on-line analysers is available through iFuse
- 3D stockpile modeling is available through SMS3D.net
QMASTOR’s integrated approach to commodity supply chain management leverages stockpile information to other stakeholders for the purpose of:
- Planning and scheduling across the supply chain
- Comparing actual and forecast stockpile balances against product or contract specifications
- Alarming and notifying of out of specification stockpiles
- Inventory accounting and valuation
- Reconciling against pit, production, transportation and end use accounting.
With benefits to geologists, mining managers, technical services managers, quality / grade controllers, plant metallurgists, logistics managers, bulk terminal managers, trade finance/accountants and marketing managers, QMASTOR’s stockpile and inventory management module provides the foundation for effective commodity operations, logistics and trade management.