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
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