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,
Global mining company improves visibility, planning and execution processes with OTM
Services Used
Implementation
Logistics Platform
Business Drivers / Challenges
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Transportation planning was predominantly manual
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Paper-orientated manual processes, known high error rates
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Low visibility across supply chain operations
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Manual calculations and invoice creations
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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
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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.