Mincom MineMarket provides real-time management of the entire mining
logistics chain. It maximizes commercial outcomes by charting the impact of
sales and provides a current view of available and upcoming production of
saleable product.MineMarket traces product quantity and quality in each discrete
part of the chain, from extraction to customer. The solution’s real-time data is
visible across the organisation and facilitates analysis, adjustment and
reconciliation. It provides easy access to comprehensive, accurate and
up-to-date information.MineMarket is a key component of the Mincom Intelligent
Mining Solution (IMS), the most comprehensive and effective suite of technical
software for the mining industry. It can be used in conjunction with other
business systems, integrates seamlessly with other IMS products and provides
sophisticated reporting and web service integration capabilities.
MineMarket generates what-if scenarios for quick reaction to changing market
conditions and optimizes sales position and revenues.
MineMarket provides comprehensive coverage of the logistics and sales
processes for mining and mineral-related organizations. This coverage includes:
- Inventory management and tracking – Product supply chain
functionality lets users track quality and quantity from the ground to shipment
and beyond; covers a variety of materials including minerals, concentrates, and
semi-refined and refined products (discrete units); and tracks and optimizes
blending.
- Transportation – Modeling and scheduling of trucks, ships,
trains, and barges – including a range of detailed features such as complex
traffic handling, equipment and transport delay management, containerization,
and ship lineup.
- Sales and marketing desk – Comprehensive management of
complex contracts including purchase, sales, freight and service contracts,
product specifications, complex pricing conditions, and intercompany contracts.
Manages assay exchange, demurrage and dispatch, prepayment, and provisional and
final invoices– all with configurable workflow.
- Planning and scheduling – Complex supply and demand
planning tool, including what-if scenarios, plan branching, and blending
planning.
- Risk management – Management of futures and derivatives
markets, positions and hedging of physical operations, mark-to-market,
effectiveness tests, and accounting .
- Reporting – From configurable web dashboards to billboards
and charting. Intelligent reports give pricing profiles, cash and revenue
forecasts, revaluations with configurable alerts.
- Increases supply chain visibility – It replaces the need
for disparate technical and commercial systems and provides stakeholders real
time access to production, inventory, quality, planning, transport, shipping and
contract information, as well as KPIs.
- Enforces standardised business processes - It enforces the
standardisation of business processes by providing common data collection
mechanisms throughout the entire supply chain. These can be performed
automatically or via predefined data entry forms, and improve consistency in
meeting contractual requirements.
- Improves control of production - The Blending and Planning
modules provide the ability to consistently blend batches as well as visibility
of stock shortages and quality problems well into the future. These tools give
users the ability to efficiently plan sales, to react to changing market
situations with flexibility and speed, and to consistently deliver to contract
specifications.
- Supports complex commercial planning and operations - It
automates and supports the marketing desk process and provides sophisticated
tools to allow companies to compete efficiently in a global market. Integrated
with production, accounting and finance systems, the solution supports product
flow forecasts, projections, trading commitments, shipment planning, shipping,
invoicing, assay exchange, cash flows and many other sales and marketing
functions.
- Enables regulatory compliance - Commercial workflow ensures
that all generated data is traceable to, and complies with, the corresponding
contractual arrangements, and the system maintains complete audit details on
every transaction.
- Track ore, concentrate, and product inventories across the entire supply
chain in bulk form and packaged form
- Sell and buy from anywhere in the physical process on long-term or spot
contracts
- Schedule transport to meet changing demands and maximize output of logistics
processes
- Manage product blends to ensure contracted product quality levels are met
- Chart the impact of commercial transactions and the effect of costs at any
point in the supply chain
- Provide specifications for invoicing, metal balancing, stockpile blending,
and deviation management
- Automatically adjust stockpile quality
- Reduce administration costs by up to 50% and increase management awareness
of the company's commercial position
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