BOLT

Streamline blending and logistics across your supply chain

An advanced multi-commodity blending, stockpiling and logistics optimizer, BOLT generates mathematically optimal mine plans to increase profits, reduce costs and maximize efficiency across your entire value chain.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Case Studies

Improving value chain planning

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Maximizing profit by automating and optimizing coal supply chain systems

With BOLT, Bengalla Mining Company improved their coal supply chain efficiency. By automating and optimizing planning processes, BOLT increased profit margins by 10% and significantly reduced planning time from weeks to minutes.

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Maximizing Net Present Value for the world’s largest coal deposit

With BOLT, Adaro MetCoal maximized the Net Present Value (NPV) of the world's largest undeveloped metallurgical coal deposit in the Maruwai Coal Basin. BOLT enabled Adaro to evaluate and prioritize the development sequence of their seven concession areas and timing of processing and logistics infrastructure investments. This resulted in a 50% difference in NPV between the best and worst scenarios, equating to billions of dollars in potential improvement.

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Automating and optimizing complex coal supply chain systems

BOLT revolutionized the coal supply chain for BHP Mitsui Coal (BMC) by automating and optimizing processes. By transitioning from manual planning to a centralized, cloud-based platform, BOLT slashed plan generation time from a full day to under an hour. This enhancement not only boosted supply chain performance but also elevated the planning team's capabilities, leading to more optimal planning decisions.

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Optimizing complex supply chain decisions for an iron ore producer

By implementing BOLT, an iron ore producer improved their stockpiling, processing, transportation, blending, and vessel loading decisions, leading to a 44% increase in direct loading and higher product sales.

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Optimizing vessel scheduling to lower costs, prevent bottlenecks and de-risk an aluminium supply chain

BOLT optimized vessel scheduling for an aluminium producer, reducing costs and preventing bottlenecks. Centralizing planning and automating schedules improved coordination across trucking, rail, and vessel loading, leading to significant annual savings in transportation costs and enhanced supply chain efficiency.

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Automating manual planning processes for one of the world's largest coal mines

BOLT automated the manual planning processes for one of the world's largest coal mines, significantly improving efficiency. The solution optimized daily material movements and processing decisions, ensuring the correct coal grade ratios were delivered to the CHPP. This automation reduced planning time from days to minutes, enhanced plan adherence, and made reporting accessible to a broader audience.

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Innovative solutions for global bauxite operations

BOLT helped a global aluminium producer optimize strategic decision-making across their bauxite operations. By planning the entire bauxite value chain with high fidelity, BOLT significantly reduced planning time from weeks to hours, leading to a substantial increase in Net Present Value (NPV) and improved efficiency across the client's global portfolio.

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Maximizing NPV for an iron ore value chain using industrial mathematics

BOLT helped a leading global mining company maximize the Net Present Value (NPV) of their iron ore value chain. By centralizing and automating planning efforts, BOLT improved optimized blending and stockpiling decisions, and aligned production with demand. This resulted in a 10% improvement in NPV, enhanced organizational collaboration, and enabled rapid "what-if" scenario analysis.

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Using simulation to maximize throughput in a complex mining value supply chain

Newcrest collaborated with Deswik to develop a real-time optimization tool for managing LHD loaders at Cadia Valley, reducing congestion and improving efficiency, which led to a 20% productivity boost.

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Improving profitability for a global flour producer with industrial mathematics

With BOLT, a global flour producer optimized their supply chain and production processes, reducing raw material requirements by 50% and improving profitability by 13%. BOLT enabled intelligent stockpiling, cost-effective shipping, and grain procurement, considering the complexities of fluctuating raw commodity availability, logistical constraints, and diverse customer demands.

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