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
evolv Applications
Logistics Platform
Managed Services
Consulting & Advisory
TMS Assessment
WMS
Automated Testing
Cloud Migration
AMC

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

  • Audit exercise along with recommendations for hardware ready for operations upsizing
  • Flo trained Asia Paints and Oracle consulting teams in functional and technical audit processes
  • Enabled and equipped the internal IT team with the tools needed for identifying and resolving performance issues during day-to-day operations.

Results

  • Performed a number of system enhancements and created a number of reports to improve existing business processes. During the audit process, many of our recommendations were implemented. The client was able to see the real benefit in terms of performance in the application.
  • Advised on the hardware architecture to ensure a minimal break during scaling up operations.
  • A total of 41 recommendations with Action Plan were submitted to Asian Paints. A large number of these recommendations were on critical performance issues. Most of the recommendations were implemented within 45 days of the audit report submission. OTM was successfully scaled!

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