Maximize margin across your bulk commodity value chain
- Highly flexible mine-to-market optimization tool for planning all or part of your value chain.
- Plan any time horizon in one platform, covering short, mid and long-term planning horizons.
- Consider mining, trucking, stockpiling, processing, logistics, blending, terminal, port operations and marketing decisions simultaneously.
Blend the stockpile the right material
- Intelligently blend and stockpile to maximize commercial opportunities across time horizons.
- Understand what material to stockpile, and where, given future supply and demand.
- Optimize bulk commodity blending for multiple cooperating sources.
Optimize plant processing settings
- Optimally select plant operating modes such as set points for coal plants, and grind size in copper mills.
- Plan processing, beneficiation, refining and milling strategies to meet demand.
- Identify what material to feed and process or bypass to maximize margin.
Optimize logistics and transport scheduling
- Maximize the efficiency of transportation infrastructure across multi-mine supply chains.
- Plan the best material to load on to vehicles.
- Adhere to fleet restrictions and infrastructure capacity limits.
Optimize product portfolio and sales decisions
- Optimize product sales based on available material and market demand.
- Adjust strategies to capitalize on shifting market conditions.
- Increase margin by optimally scheduling contracts.
Reduce demurrage, turn vessels around faster
- Minimize demurrage costs while considering the entire value chain.
- Sequence vessels to align with material availability and port constraints.
- Manage port stocks to align with vessel arrivals.
Improve alignment with downstream requirements
- Optimize timing of mining activities based on dependencies.
- Determine the best mining sequence to maximize value chain production.
- Allocate resources efficiently to maximize production output.
Track historical movements
- Record all historical material movements from multiple sources including stockpile benchmarks, trucking, processing, railings, and ship departures.
- Calculate stockpiled material tonnes and qualities given the in and out transactions.
- Accurately calculate the opening stocks based on historic data, which can be used from current state in short-term planning.
Run and analyze multiple scenarios
- Run and analyze multiple scenarios in parallel.
- Replan existing scenarios with ease.
- Compare scenarios inputs, KPIs and ouputs to understand where value is created and lost.
Data integration options to suit technology maturity
- Data API to allow automatic creation of scenarios and reporting.
- Automate planning processes.
- Various KPIs, reports and outputs of the optimal plan.
Cloud-based data and compute
- Leverages cloud services to scale compute for value chains of any size.
- Plan and optimize scenarios in parallel.
- Enable collaboration across planning teams.