Assore

Assore, a mining company with 6,500 employees, marketing and exporting base minerals has facilities in the Northern Cape, Mpumalanga, and North West Provinces. The primary distribution focus is in Asia, however, global distribution spans across South Africa, North and South America, Europe, Middle East, and Australia.

Global mining company improves visibility, planning and execution processes with OTM

Services Used

Implementation

Logistics Platform

Business Drivers / Challenges

Transportation planning was predominantly manual
Paper-orientated manual processes, known high error rates
Low visibility across supply chain operations
Manual calculations and invoice creations
Lack of control to drive process improvement

Solutions

Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) implemented across Rail, Road and Sea
End-to-end solution implementation covering ordering, planning, execution, reporting, settlement
Integration with EBS applications via SOA

Results

Drastic improvement in supply chain control. Enabled the recording of events across key points of the transportation planning and execution journey to provide visibility. Further enabled automation of processes including the creation of documents to reduce reliance on paper. Provided end-to-end execution process in one system through to reporting and invoicing.