SAP FOR MINING

A FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINED PROFITABILITY

SAP for Mining solutions enable mining companies to manage and respond to changes in unpredictable global markets, manage supply chains, run efficient operations, and sustain community relations – while ensuring optimal asset utilization, profitable order fulfillment, and high standards of quality, sustainability, and compliance.

Our comprehensive suite of applications, integrated with leading business support and analytical software, enables you to optimize end-to-end business processes for:

Business planning Supply chain management Contact to cash Operations management Operational compliance Enterprise asset management Supply management Enterprise management and support

Leading Mining Companies Transform Business with SAP

Discover how businesses like yours are improving processes and gaining a competitive edge with SAP Solutions:

SAP for Mining helps you set strategic targets for sales, operations, and finance. The solutions support key planning activities, including:

Corporate risk management – With SAP for Mining, you can effectively identify and manage risks. The solutions enable you to establish and monitor internal controls while providing support for processing complaints from whistleblowers.

Budgeting and forecasting – SAP for Mining solutions help you manage your organization's entire budgeting process. They support scenario modeling and forecasting for developing cost and revenue budgets.

Business planning is enabled with SAP applications such as SAP ERP. To find out how SAP ERP can help you improve your business planning, please complete the "Contact SAP" form and request information about enterprise resource planning.

The Business Process of Operations Management

SAP for Mining solutions support the entire production process. The solution set enables:

Mine planning – Using third-party systems, you can develop plans that contain information about blocks to be mined, expected ore grades, and optimal mining sequence. You can use the results of this planning process (tonnages and grades) in production planning.

Production planning – With SAP for Mining, you can define production targets based on input from the mine plan, taking capacity and material constraints into consideration.

Production execution and control – Following production planning, SAP for Mining enables you to capture the actual production (tonnages and grade), as well as costs, in production orders. You can also integrate the production order with data historians and real-time systems.

Quality assurance – With SAP for Mining, you can manage and assure product quality while monitoring and documenting compliance with quality standards for subsequent audits. SAP solutions enable you to track product quality throughout the entire production process and along the supply chain.

Operations management is enabled with SAP applications such as SAP ERP and SAP Supply Chain Management. To find out how these applications can help you improve your operations management, please complete the "Contact SAP" form and request information about enterprise resource planning or supply chain management.

The Business Process of Enterprise Asset Management

SAP for Mining solutions enable you to optimize the condition and performance of assets at the lowest possible cost. The solutions enable:

Capital investment management – With SAP for Mining, you can develop and construct new mines and processing plants – often highly capital-intensive projects. You can plan and supervise projects, phase in equipment, handle project accounting activities, and manage investments required for such projects.

Preventive and breakdown maintenance management – With SAP for Mining you can use cost-efficient maintenance methods, such as risk-based maintenance or preventive maintenance, and manage work orders. You can also develop comprehensive outage plans, refurbish equipment, and manage shutdowns.

Decommissioning – SAP for Mining helps you shut down mines and production facilities, retire and scrap assets, and phase out equipment.

Enterprise asset management is enabled with SAP applications such as SAP ERP and SAP Product Lifecycle Management. To find out how these applications can help you improve your enterprise asset management, please complete the "Contact SAP" form and request information about enterprise resource planning or product lifecycle management.

The Business Process of Supply Management

SAP for Mining solutions help you maximize the return on relationships with suppliers across all categories of spend. The solutions enable:

Strategic sourcing – With SAP for Mining, you can formulate a global sourcing strategy and evaluate the capacity of suppliers to deliver high-quality goods according to schedules that match your specific needs. You can also consolidate and anticipate supply needs, analyze historical buying patterns, and track current market trends.

MRO and service procurement – SAP for Mining supports both direct procurement, where planned requirements for materials and services are converted automatically to

purchase orders, and indirect procurement, which supports the purchasing of indirect materials, services, and subcontracting. You can also implement self-service buying to enable employees to create and manage their own requisitions, making the procurement process faster and more responsive.

Supply management is enabled with SAP applications such as SAP Supplier Relationship Management and SAP ERP. To find out how these applications can help you improve your supply management, please complete the "Contact SAP" form and request information about supplier relationship management or enterprise resource planning.

The Business Process of Enterprise Management and Support

SAP for Mining supports all core enterprise activities, including:

Analytics – SAP for Mining helps you to evaluate business performance and analyze operations, the workforce, and financials.

Financials – With SAP for Mining, you can gain deeper financial insight across the enterprise and tighten control of your finances while automating financial and management accounting and financial supply chain management.

Human capital management – SAP for Mining enables you to maximize the potential of your workforce and automate employee life-cycle management, workforce deployment, and employee transaction management.

Corporate services – With SAP for Mining, you can optimize both centralized and decentralized services for managing real estate, global trade services, and corporate travel activities.

Enterprise management and support is enabled with SAP applications such as SAP ERP. To find out how SAP ERP can help you improve your enterprise management and support, please complete the "Contact SAP" form and request information about enterprise resource planning.

The Business Process of Operational Compliance

SAP for Mining solutions enable you to fulfill legal requirements for occupational health, industrial hygiene and safety, and environmental issues. The solutions support key processes such as:

Safety and incident management – With SAP for Mining, you can take preventive actions to protect your employees' health while ensuring compliance with national and international regulations. You can identify, assess, evaluate, and control employee exposure to agents in the workplace that can cause injury or illness.

Emissions management – SAP for Mining helps you improve compliance with emissions regulations worldwide, such as the Kyoto Protocol and the U.S. Clean Air Act. You can identify sources and characteristics, estimate or measure quantities, track and control sources, and generate reports for all types of emissions.

Operational compliance is enabled with SAP applications such as SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM). To find out how SAP PLM can help you improve your operational compliance, please complete the "Contact SAP" form and request information about product lifecycle management.

Business Benefits

With SAP for Mining, you can gain the following benefits:

Improved efficiency and reduced maintenance costs – With full integration of production planning and asset life-cycle management, you can improve asset management, reduce maintenance costs, and optimize production plans.

Balanced supply chain – SAP mining solutions seamlessly integrate key areas of the enterprise – including business planning, operations, supply chain management, supplier and contractor relations, and business intelligence – providing full visibility from the pit to the boardroom.

Improved regulatory compliance – Integration of financial and other business information facilitates strategic and operational decision-making and enables compliance with environmental regulations and corporate governance.

Enhanced collaboration with suppliers and customers – You can extend functionality to suppliers and customers using a service-oriented architecture based on Web services, Java, and other industry standards. Since you can leverage systems already in place, you can realize a faster return on your investment.

Lower total cost of ownership – A single, integrated software foundation eliminates the need to maintain disparate software systems and costly interfaces required by point solutions, thereby reducing total cost of ownership.

With SAP NetWeaver you can accelerate access to business information to improve decision making. You can deliver business information to the right people at the right time with:

SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management to support customer data integration, global spend analysis, global data synchronization, product content management, mergers, and acquisitions

SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse to enable a scalable enterprise data warehouse SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator to accelerate the results of queries

or searches while lowering the cost of operations, even as data volumes and number of users increase

SAP Information Lifecycle Management to manage access, storage, and retention of data from legacy SAP systems, while complying with legal and regulatory mandates

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SAP for Mining IndustryCore Mining is an All-In-One Solution developed by CIBER that maximizes the value of your SAP for Mining.  Core Mining is a preconfigured solution for small to mid-sized mining companies that want to reap the benefits of SAP for Mining but do not have the time or resources to configure from scratch.  It is a comprehensive solution that includes both SAP ERP software that is 50-80% preconfigured with industry best practices deployment tools, methodologies and maintenance support.  It manages all the core enterprise processes of small and mid-sized mining companies.  With Core Mining, your company will benefit from a fast, predictable implementation that alleviates risks, lowers costs, and delivers rapid time to value.

Mining companies are often faced with operational inefficiency across mine production, as well as asset and stockpile utilization.   The lack of skilled labor and high staff turnaround only compounds volatile energy and commodity prices mining companies pay.  Poor visibility across the company supply chain, limits a mining company’s capability to fulfill orders accurately and maximize product and customer profitability.  With CIBER’s Core Mining Solution, all these challenges are met while trying to sustain management of safety, health, environment, community and financial requirements. 

“Because of the joint efforts of the General Moly implementation team and CIBER, General Moly now has a functional ERP system that is providing us the opportunity to implement and refine our business processes.Our choice to use CIBER for implementation of the SAP solution, as well as the complete hosting and IT outsourcing services, allows us to have a single, integrated platform. We will continue to partner with CIBER and share our mining expertise to help them further refine their mining solution.”

Donna Peske — IT Manager General Moly, Inc.

Benefits

Infrastructure: A lack of information and correct tools to plan can affect how efficiently a mining company responds to changes in supply and demand.  Core Mining provides flexible, scalable infrastructure that supports sustainable growth and adaptation to business change. 

Workforce: Many mining companies struggle to attract, recruit and retain a skilled workforce.  The improved forecasting and operations planning provided by Core Mining will maximize workforce resources, as well as mine and asset utilization.

Return on High Capital Investment: Mining is characterized by capital asset intensive operations and maintaining the high capital investment in expensive, specialized equipment can cut into company profits.  With Core Mining, supply, inventory, warehouse and cost management are enhanced to optimize asset and spare parts procurement while reducing overall costs.

Visibility: Lack of visibility is a general concern in small and mid-sized mining companies.  This can create difficulties in matching planned extraction and measuring existing stockpile quantities.  Core Mining integrates processes and analytics to improve supply chain visibility which supports effective decision making.  Sales are synchronized with production and inventory planning which provides for accurate order fulfillment and higher profit margins. 

Process Reporting: All mining companies deal with a complex regulatory and reporting environment.  CIBER’s Core Mining provides strong financial, event, and process reporting that ease the fulfillment of regulatory and audit requirements.

CIBER and SAP – A Mining Partnership Built on Success

More than 360 mining companies around the globe run SAP for mining software.  With more than 10 years of mining specific experience, SAP is endorsed by the hundreds of mining companies that run SAP for Mining.   CIBER’s All-In-One Core Mining covers all the key processes of your business with our preconfigured solution.  Core Mining provides integrated processes with standard interfaces to third-party solutions.  As your business evolves, our preconfigured SAP for Mining provides a solution that can be flexibly adapted and extended.  Users are provided easy access to the information they need and productivity is enhanced as the learning and adoption process is accelerated. 

CIBER SAP® Mining Credentials

20 years of SAP experience and partnership A leading implementer of SAP for Mining in North America, South America, Africa,

Australia, Europe and Asia. Expertise in PCI Compliance-Qualified Security Assessor Certified SAP Global Outsourcing and Hosting partner Special Expertise Partner – SAP for Mining

Why CIBER?

CIBER is a certified SAP for Mining partner and has successfully implemented Core Mining All-In-One Solution for some of the leading small and mid-sized mining companies across the globe.  Our technical skills and application experience will ensure an efficient SAP implementation and will provide your company a greater ROI.