Automatisation et optimisation des systèmes complexes de la chaîne d'approvisionnement du charbon

BHP Mitsui Coal (BMC) possède et exploite deux mines de charbon à ciel ouvert dans le bassin de Bowen, au centre du Queensland en Australie : la mine de South Walker Creek et celle de Poitrel.

Découvrez comment Deswik a aidé BMC :

• Multipliez par 10 l'amélioration des processus de planification grâce à l'automatisation et à l'optimisation
• Améliorez l'efficacité de la chaîne d'approvisionnement avec une optimalité garantie
• Augmentez les capacités de l'équipe de planification avec une meilleure couverture de la mine

With one planning team operating across two massive sites, they recognized the need to increase the sophistication and capability of their planning tools to automate processes where possible and improve supply chain efficiency.

• Millions of variables needing to be simultaneously solved across the supply chain
• Plans required to manage the entire supply chain across both sites
• Interdependency between the two mine plans resulted in an iterative process
• Different workflows and processes at each site presented difficulties
• Technical issues integrating relevant data in a readily accessible form
• Planning changes required manual reworking
• Significant key man risk with knowledge and expertise held by a few key team members

Deswik deployed BOLT, a cloud-based supply chain optimization support tool to automate, optimize and centralize the planning process. This resulted in:

• Optimal planning solutions generated in minutes
• Flexibility in configuring customised workflows, interfaces
• Plans that could span different time horizons
• Custom uploaders able to accept a variety of data sources
• Deployment of the BOLT Historian feature to track stockpile actuals (tonnes and attributes) for comparison with projections to validate the planning process across the entire supply chain