Mining Material Inventory and Stockpile Management

Bulk Material Production and Inventory Management

• Take the guesswork out of inventories and WIP across the entire supply chain and trace all valuable materials from in-situ resources through the final product in near real-time.
• Ensure the highest level of accuracy in product quality, quantity, and blends by employing a solution with built-in validation, reconciliation, and error correction methods.

Real-time Transparency to Process Inventory

Provide insight into the details of process inventory in real-time.

• View details of material movements into and out of specific work centers
• Review the genealogy of materials moving across multiple work centers across the supply chain
• Calculate the quality of inbound and outbound materials within a work center
• Identify the latest known balance of materials within a work center, as well as the balance over time
• Determine the weighted average balance of stockpiles and the balance of specific lots of material at any time or over a defined period of time

Yield Accounting and Metal Balance

• Enhance the reconciliation of daily production balances with month-end accounting results using a proven yield/metal accounting method
• Understand measurement bias in the processes and simplify the month-end reporting

Enable Operational Decisions through Consistent Actions and Procedures

Real-time transparency of inventories and WIP results in an immediate understanding of issues within a supply chain. Address the issues and provide the business with an opportunity to respond quickly to deviations in plans and the agility to respond to spot market requests.

• Empower new and experienced workers to remediate issues consistently
• Embed "best practices" into the system for consistency
• Employ a stringent governance method for month-end production reconciliation processes
• Enable operational innovation through improvement in worker actions and procedures
• Empower accountability of actions and sign-offs to improve safety and operational efficiency

Capture Data Across Existing Assets

• Automate the collection of inventory movements, events, and process data from your existing plant equipment and systems.
• Contextualize the data relative to location, shift, ore or material
• Gain real-time inventory updates
• A high-availability architecture provides data integrity and reliability

Professional Services for Value Realization

• Augment your internal project capability with proven subject matter experts and engineers who can help you unlock the value within your business and maximize your returns.
• Aveva’s team of experts and our highly qualified partners globally can deliver insights into untapped improvement potential and then apply proven and sustainable technology solutions to these problems where the highest returns can be realized by the business in the shortest time possible.