Mining is an industry facing the diverse challenges of changing market conditions. Extraordinary demand for raw materials drives tremendous opportunity – while labor shortages, high staff turnover, equipment capacity, and volatile energy and commodity prices strain operations. If you're focused on differentiating your company through customer satisfaction and operational excellence, you're also challenged with unprecedented operational complexity.

That's why mining companies like yours are automating and streamlining processes to:

• Optimize mine and processing capacities
• Increase the yields of current operations
• Manage contracts and pricing
• Optimize supply/inventory strategies and equipment performance
• Improve supply chain efficiency and visibility
• Decrease the cost and complexity of regulatory compliance
• Manage expansion into new markets, products, and lines of business with maximum efficiency

SAP solutions give mining companies the breadth of visibility, integration, and process support they need to stay ahead of competition. In fact, more than 360 customers use our mining solutions.

SAP can help you:

• Maximize asset utilization and equipment performance
• Manage stockpile quantities and qualities
• Control complex contract management, including commodity sales quotes, contract call-offs and spot sales orders, product availability, customer credit, formula-based pricing, delivery, order status tracking, and invoice management
• Integrate and automate supply chain activities such as forecasting, sales, inventory, production, and replenishment planning and execution
• Monitor supply chain performance and identify inefficiencies – as well as opportunities for growth
• Ensure a safe working environment for employees and contractors and care for their health
• Simplify regulatory compliance and ensure enhanced auditibility
• Scale your business to changing needs

Read some of our customer references.