Logistics schedulers must have full supply chain visibility to effectively coordinate the various teams working together across the bulk material supply chain. Planning and constraint based operations scheduling, transportation scheduling, inventory availability, blend planning and ship scheduling can be highly complex and interactive business processes that require a systems approach to maximise supply chain performance.
QMASTOR can assist logistics scheduling by providing integrated business processes across functional departments, relational databases for identifying opportunities for improvement and timely, proactive decision support. This includes:
- Demand forecasting from long term or spot sales contracts
- Capacity planning for balancing production and supply chain capacity to demand
- Market allocation of budgeted saleable production to long term customers and highest margin contracts to understand uncommitted sales capacity at any point in time
- Order acceptance including vessel nomination and acceptance decision making
- Master production scheduling – constraint based supply chain product level scheduling
- Detailed sequencing – from a particular pit working section, stockpile yardage, etc.
- Monitoring actual production versus forecast and dynamically reschedule
- Despatch scheduling - what train when, what physical port stockpile, can I use remnants, vessel ETL’s etc.
- Monitoring actual despatch versus forecast and dynamically reschedule
Logistics schedulers utilising QMASTOR solutions can:
- Have confidence that stocks are available to promise. QMASTOR solutions provide confidence by being able to accurately track and forecast bulk commodity movements and stockpiling. Have confidence that stocks are available to promise when locking in vessel lay-cans, scheduling processing plants or determining transport schedules.
- Dynamically reschedule operations. QMASTOR has developed an innovative approach to bulk materials scheduling to leverage the tracking of actual results as they come to hand and then dynamically re-forecast/predict supply chain performance including stockpile tonnage and grade out into the future.
- Utilise financial data in logistics decision making. Contract penalty bonus and supply chain cost data is available as a key input to decision making to ensure the monetary impact of alternative options is understood. The cost of quality, demurrage, rehandling, process plant yields, transportation etc provide a critical contribution to decision support.
- Be alarmed! QMASTOR will ensure that you are alarmed and notified (only when you need to) for when your plans have constraints exceeded; predicted or actual stockpiles, plant feed or trains are out of specification, if trains are cancelled etc.
These are just a few of QMASTOR’s capabilities. Learn more about our solutions for: mining, stockpile and inventory management, blend management, process plant management, shipping, contract management, planning & scheduling.
Logistics schedulers must have full supply chain visibility to effectively coordinate the various teams working together across the bulk material supply chain. Planning and constraint based operations scheduling, transportation scheduling, inventory availability, blend planning and ship scheduling can be highly complex and interactive business processes that require a systems approach to maximise supply chain performance.
QMASTOR can assist logistics scheduling by providing integrated business processes across functional departments, relational databases for identifying opportunities for improvement and timely, proactive decision support. This includes:
- Demand forecasting from long term or spot sales contracts
- Capacity planning for balancing production and supply chain capacity to demand
- Market allocation of budgeted saleable production to long term customers and highest margin contracts to understand uncommitted sales capacity at any point in time
- Order acceptance including vessel nomination and acceptance decision making
- Master production scheduling – constraint based supply chain product level scheduling
- Detailed sequencing – from a particular pit working section, stockpile yardage, etc.
- Monitoring actual production versus forecast and dynamically reschedule
- Despatch scheduling - what train when, what physical port stockpile, can I use remnants, vessel ETL’s etc.
- Monitoring actual despatch versus forecast and dynamically reschedule
Logistics schedulers utilising QMASTOR solutions can:
- Have confidence that stocks are available to promise. QMASTOR solutions provide confidence by being able to accurately track and forecast bulk commodity movements and stockpiling. Have confidence that stocks are available to promise when locking in vessel lay-cans, scheduling processing plants or determining transport schedules.
- Dynamically reschedule operations. QMASTOR has developed an innovative approach to bulk materials scheduling to leverage the tracking of actual results as they come to hand and then dynamically re-forecast/predict supply chain performance including stockpile tonnage and grade out into the future.
- Utilise financial data in logistics decision making. Contract penalty bonus and supply chain cost data is available as a key input to decision making to ensure the monetary impact of alternative options is understood. The cost of quality, demurrage, rehandling, process plant yields, transportation etc provide a critical contribution to decision support.
- Be alarmed! QMASTOR will ensure that you are alarmed and notified (only when you need to) for when your plans have constraints exceeded; predicted or actual stockpiles, plant feed or trains are out of specification, if trains are cancelled etc.
These are just a few of QMASTOR’s capabilities. Learn more about our solutions for: mining, stockpile and inventory management, blend management, process plant management, shipping, contract management, planning & scheduling.