Turn maintenance budgeting into a strategic advantage for mining operations

Mine operations teams typically budget maintenance spend across sites, cost centers, and assets in offline spreadsheets due to limitations in core capability. This extension brings the whole budget cycle into SAP Cloud ERP: a guided preparation process, annual budget and periodic reforecast versions, predictive cost modeling from historical maintenance and equipment usage data, and automated variance analysis that surfaces overruns immediately.

By Syntax Systems USA LP

Benefits

  • Free finance and maintenance teams from manual budget work

    Automate budget development and variance analysis so finance and maintenance teams spend their time on strategic planning instead of manual spreadsheet work and offline variance tracking across sites and cost centers.

  • Reforecast quickly as mining operations change

    Build reforecast versions in minutes when production schedules, asset plans, or costs shift, keeping every mining budget aligned with real operating conditions throughout the year rather than locked to a stale annual plan.

  • Improve master data quality across the asset base

    Surface master data issues in SAP Cloud ERP that quietly distort maintenance budgets, then course-correct immediately or generate correction reports for the data team so planning rests on clean, trustworthy asset and cost-center data.

  • Strengthen financial control over every site

    Catch budget overruns the moment they appear instead of after they hit the financial statements, and hold every mining site accountable to its operating budget with clear, real-time visibility into planned, forecasted, and actual spend.

Features

Accelerate the budget cycle with a guided, data-integrated process

A step-by-step Budget Development Accelerator pulls live data from SAP Cloud ERP and walks planners through each stage of the cycle, shortening preparation time and reducing the manual handoffs that slow annual maintenance budgeting.

Accelerate the budget cycle with a guided, data-integrated process
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Build annual budgets and in-year reforecast versions

Create an initial annual maintenance budget and maintain multiple reforecast versions as the year progresses, so finance can model operational changes and compare scenarios without overwriting the approved baseline in SAP Cloud ERP.

Build annual budgets and in-year reforecast versions
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Expose primary, secondary, and tertiary maintenance costs

Gain complete visibility into primary, secondary, and tertiary maintenance costs across the asset base, revealing hidden spend that standard SAP Cloud ERP reporting leaves buried in cost centers and work orders.

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Plans and pricing

All plans include:

Three subaccounts (Dev/Test/Production)Unlimited users and data storage for a single site

  • Enterprise Edition

    Enterprise Edition includes planning for primary, secondary, and non-capital budget planning categories.

    Includes 1 Site
    Per Year
    EUR 105,000.00
    • EUR per Site
    • Minimum contract 3 years

    Enterprise Edition includes planning for primary, secondary, and non-capital budget planning categories.

    Includes 1 Site

  • Starter Edition

    Starter Edition includes non-capital budget planning category only (for new deployments and sites without maintenance history).

    Includes 1 Site
    Per Year
    EUR 32,000.00
    • EUR per Site
    • Minimum contract 1 year

    Starter Edition includes non-capital budget planning category only (for new deployments and sites without maintenance history).

    Includes 1 Site