The Challenge
The unique characteristics of the Mining & Metals industry, such as, r emote site operations, capital-intensive, high environmental and social impact, highly complex and expensive development, and a long business cycle time, pose a unique set of challenges, including how to maximize asset utilization and best manage volatile raw materials prices and energy costs.
Environmental compliance regulations are leading the processes that support every mining company's corporate social responsibility to avoid at maximum land degradation and environmental pollution and to manage the impact of its activities on the community and its people.
Since the management level are in the need for high skilled but scarce workforce, mining companies must contend with a high staff turnaround. At the same time, in the operations level, labor force is highly un-skilled and inexperienced, consequently, despite the fact that lost time in injuries has been reduced, fatalities remain at an unacceptable level.
Furthermore, mergers and acquisitions are shaping the market, which is demanding flexible changes in the business model and in its information system support.
Therefore mining and metals companies around the world are in need of an organizational transformation to gradually align its operating costs to international standards. To improve productivity, they will need to invest in new technologies, improve processes in planning and execution of projects, and institutionalize a comprehensive risk management framework.
SoftExpert Software supports the whole Mining & Metals value chain, the mining, the conversion of primary goods, the processing of the material and its distribution.
SoftExpert solutions also address industry-specific business requirements in the areas of supply chain management, contract-to-cash, operations management, compliance, and enterprise asset management. It helps organizations to lower exposure to risks, strengthen risk mitigation competence and compliance by providing a comprehensive operational risk assessment and management tool to facilitate inspections, audits, analysis and monitoring.
Project management in the Mining & Metals Industry is imperative. SoftExpert delivers a full Portfolio and Project Management solution to assist the mining industry needs in taking projects from scoping study through to operations. It is flexible and adaptable to both technical study and design and construction environments, helping to assist in decision making, improve budgeting control, to better collaborate throughout the project including process mapping and progress reporting, and to develop a better quality plan and control process.
SoftExpert's Environmental Health and Safety Management System gives you robust, cutting-edge solution for the entire lifecycle of your environmental, plant hygiene, occupational health and safety needs. And, it's in full compliance with international regulations such as ISO 14000 and OHSAS 18000.
The Mining & Metals Industry has been making use of large, expensive and maintenance-intensive equipments for extracting, processing and transportation. SoftExpert solutions enable close management of capital assets and provide a sound basis for disciplined maintenance management, leading to higher productivity and reduced production costs.
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