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Anglo Coal Australia
Transforms coal supply chain by linking mines with ports, railways, and laboratories
THE CHALLENGE:
THE SOLUTION:
Anglo Coal Australia is a wholly owned division of Anglo
American, a global leader in mining and natural resources.
Anglo Coal Australia has operations in NSW and QLD
consisting of Callide; CapCoal; Dawson; Drayton and
Moranbah North. These have a combined production output
of over 39 million tonnes per annum.
The QMASTOR Pit to Port ® integrated supply chain
management solution was selected to provide ACA with
an integrated view of thier supply chain. The system’s
modular design fulfilled the marketing and logistics
requirements of ACA by providing functionality to manage:
Anglo Coal was looking for a standardised end-to-end
solution that would integrate supply chain management
at each site individually as well as throughout all ACA
operations within Australia. The importance of near real-time
data availability was a key requirement. Furthermore,
integration to important business partners including ports,
railways, and laboratories was paramount.
KEY BENEFITS:
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Delivers faster access to key management data
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Provides improved efficiency in invoicing and
demurrage
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Assures complete transparency of operations
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Enables process improvements and better analysis
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Corporate supply chain planning
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Mine products and port stockpiles
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Transportation (train and conveyor deliveries)
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Shipping
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Commercial invoicing and penalty bonuses
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Contracts
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Revenue and cashflow accounting
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Despatch/demurrage
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Corporate data standardisation
Case Profile
INTEGRATION POINTS:
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Ports (PWCS, DBCT, CQPA)
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Rail (QR, PN)
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Laboratories
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Cognos
Automated data capture services significantly reduce
the amount of manual data entry and eliminate input
errors and double handling.
The system provides complete
transparency of operations, a necessity
for effective and timely decisions
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BENEFITS:
The centralised Pit to Port installation unifies all six
ACA operations throughout Australia and provides a
comprehensive supply chain management system.
Data is standardised throughout ACA, which facilitates
benchmarking between mine operations and provides
a common system for managing quality, logistics, and
commercial activities.
Pit to Port provides complete transparency of operations,
a necessity for effective and timely decision making.
It delivers accurate information at the right time, in the
right format.
Anglo Coal has noted improvements in contract management,
invoicing, and despatch/demurrage efficiency. Pit to Port
also enables effective, ongoing supply chain analysis
whereby ACA can evaluate their processes against best
practice standards and develop a roadmap for directing
incremental process improvements.
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