SAP for Mining supports your core business processes, including:

• Business planning – Set strategic targets for sales, operations, and finance. Senior managers can evaluate alternatives and develop detailed plans that delineate how to achieve goals. They can also use an integrated business planning process to link strategic goals with tactical and operative planning on all levels of the enterprise.
• Supply chain management – Manage the entire value chain of mining – from ore production and subsequent processing activities such as beneficiation, smelting, and refining, to the final delivery of products to customers. The SAP solution for supply chain planning integrates demand planning, distribution scheduling, and shipping scheduling, helping you achieve higher visibility into the planning process.
• Contact-to-cash management – Support all stages of the commodity sales process. SAP solutions integrate contract management, stockpile management, transportation management, and quality management. They also enable provisional and differential invoicing for changes in quotation values or product-quality analysis.
• Operations management – Streamline your end-to-end production process, including production planning, the actual mining process, and subsequent processing steps such as beneficiation, smelting, and refining.
• Operational compliance – Fulfill legal requirements for occupational health, industrial hygiene and safety, and environmental issues.
• Enterprise asset management – Achieve an optimal condition and performance of assets at the lowest possible cost. With SAP solutions, you can plan, construct, operate, maintain, and disconnect fixed and mobile assets. You can also manage capital expenditure, reduce operating costs, improve asset utilization, and collaborate with engineering and maintenance contractors.
• Supply management – Maximize the return on relationships with suppliers across all categories of spend. SAP solutions cover the entire supply cycle, including strategic sourcing, operational procurement, and supplier enablement, while leveraging consolidated content and master data.
• Enterprise management and support – Handle all core enterprise activities in analytics, financials, human capital management, and corporate services.

Business Processes in Detail

SAP solutions and applications support business processes related to the mining industry. Learn more about these business processes.