Supply chain planning

• Tonnage, Quality and Value (TQV) planning for budget versus forecast versus actual performance for all material movements (mining, loader/truck, train, barge, conveyor, plant production, ship loading) and balances (pit/stockpiles/vessels)
• Create detailed plans and schedules for all movements and balances
• View End-to-End supply chain flows and balances on one screen. Understand and manage the impact of events on upstream / downstream operations, ie. the impact of vessel schedules changing
• Flexible, user configurable views of supply chains

Budgeting

• Flexible creation of budgets
• Forecast stock shortages based on quality and tonnage
• Ensure stocks are available when locking in vessel laycans, scheduling processing plants or determining transport schedules

Pit mapping with resource definition

• Enables the ability to track parcels of material from the initial source deposit to the final destination (and everywhere in between)
• QMASTOR’s iFuse integration system provides automated upload of geological and mine planning information system data (such as XPAC)

Mining

• The system is suitable for both open cut and underground operations
• Conduct short term mine planning, dilution determination, Run of Mine (ROM) quality management, prediction of processing behaviour and product qualities
• Monitor pit inventory, product and overburden removal
• Reconcile actual mined performance against planned/geological pit and associated elements such as ramps, blocks, minezones, strips, longwalls and continuous miner panels
• Automated data collection from mine asset tracking systems (such as Modular Mining/WENCO) is available through iFuse

Stockpile management

• Manage all stockpiles across the supply chain including: ROM, plant feed, product, transport, transit, dedicated and cargo assembly port stockpiles
• Manage stockpiles using a variety of models (algorithmic, zonal, logical) for tracking and visualisation of a material’s storage and quality distribution
• Accurately predict reclaimed quality/grade from stockpiles for blend planning and supply chain scheduling
• Automatically calculate, upon completion of stockpile movement transactions, all associated stockpile tonnage and quality/grade balances
• View 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 stackers/reclaimers/mobile equipment is available through iFuse
• 3D stockpile modeling is available through SMS3D.net

Quality and blend management

• Utilise a blend calculator to optimise cargo specifications
• Conduct “what if” stock planning scenarios to view possible courses of action and their impact on downstream supply chain operations prior to actual events
• Automate the task of building blends that conform to spec from multiple stockpile sources with varying tonnages and grades
• Improve commodity quality issues that impact on supply chain and plant performance
• Determine the lowest cost/most ideal blend considering contract requirements; logistics and inventory constraints

Processing

• Record and report on plant parameters and production figures
• Record plant audit and composite results
• Predict plant yield and product quality
• Automated data collection is available through iFuse for integration to:
  o Laboratories
  o SCADA
  o Weightometers
  o Weighbridges
  o Online analysers
  o Bin levels

Transportation

• Manage train, truck, barge, conveyor and remnant movements
• Create detailed transport schedules
• Use stockpile models and the blend calculator to predict movement quality
• On completion of transport movement transactions all stockpile tonnage and quality balances are automatically updated
• Multiple transaction parameters are available per carrier (ie. source/destination stockpiles, date/time, tonnages, material)
• Multiple tonnages are available per carrier. (ie. rail loadout, carrier weigh tape, port belt tonnes)
• The system caters for internal movements: sales, third party purchases, agency movements, internal sales, borrows and loans
• Transport movements can be linked with contracts and or vessels
• Automated data collection from laboratories, rail and other transport provider systems is available through iFuse

Domestic Shipping

• The shipping module facilitates the management of vessel details, cargo details, quality, pricing, penalty/bonus, laytime, documentation and association to relevant contract(s)
• The system enables multiple transactions (source stockpiles, date/time, tonnages and material) per vessel
• As a vessel is loaded all stockpile tonnage and quality balances are automatically updated
• Use stockpile models and the blend calculator to predict vessel quality
• Create detailed ship schedules
• Automated penalty/bonus calculations and invoice values
• Reconciliation of trains/trucks/barges against vessel BOL tonnages and qualities
• Automated data collection from ports and laboratories is available through iFuse
  

Despatch/Demurrage

• Automated despatch/demurrage forecasts based upon ETA and ETD
• Automated laytime calculations through comparison of vessel laytime against terms and conditions in despatch/demurrage contract
• Automated split amongst co-shippers
• Significant reductions in manual calculations
• Automated data collection of vessel loading delays from ports is available through iFuse

Sales/Purchase contract management

Contract data provides key information on:

• Base contract terms and conditions
• Contract options
• Contract specifications and rejection levels
• Quality penalty/bonuses
• Multiple currencies
• Provisional pricing
• Credit ratings, credit limits
• Payment terms to enable automated cash flow forecasts
• Total contract margin/cost analysis that considers all supply chain and trade costs
• Volume and delivery options
• Required commercial and trade documentation
• Hyper-linking and viewing of electronic contract documents
• Contract approval workflows
• Contract performance management

QMASTOR’s integrated approach to commodity supply chain management leverages contract information to other stakeholders for the purpose of:

• Reducing re-entry of shipment record data where appropriate
• Communicate and utilise customer specification and penalty/bonus data for grade control, blend and logistics planning and process plant optimisation
• Automating invoicing and shipment documentation
• Enables generation of revenue, supply chain and trading cost and cash flow forecasting
  

Invoicing

• Manage relevant invoicing tasks within Pit to Plant
• Generation of shipping and transport invoices and adjustments (domestic and international)
• Exchange rates recorded for reporting multiple currencies
  

Supply Chain Revenue, Cash Flow & Cost Accounting

• Revenue and cash flow forecasts
• Revenue summaries
• Cash payments and receipts
• Cost of sales summary
• Net back analysis
• Aged debtors
• Advices of distribution

Reporting

• The system contains a comprehensive set of standard report and chart templates. (over 200)
• Users have the flexibility to build and customise their own configured reports and charts
• QMASTOR can develop customised reports as required
• Reports can be accesses via the web and.or distributed from within the system utilising email
• All reports can be exported to Excel, Word, HTML and PDF formats

Integration

QMASTOR’s integration system iFuse enables extensive integration of Pit to Plant with:

• exploration databases
• geological models and mine planning
• blasting
• truck dispatch and tracking
• laboratory analysis
• SCADA systems (process plant, stacker/reclaimer, train loadout)
• railways
• ports
• weighbridges, weightometers, on-line analysers, GPS systems
• corporate ERP, business intelligence and accounting systems