ERP for Australian Mining Co's

Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite, which includes Sage Accpac ERP and Sage CRM, bridges the gap between financial information and production information in the mining industry with a configurable set of workflow and business intelligence tools that provide valuable information anytime, anywhere.

Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite features:

Dimensional General Ledger stores with up to 99 years of history online - Transactional analyses to provide costing at the shaft, process, sub-process, and equipment level - Workflow management of procurement and internal resources that are dynamically linked to cost centres, allowing you to easily analyze and authorize expense codes with complete control - Integrated fixed asset management that complies with IFRS and Sarbanes-Oxley - Capital equipment management with advanced maintenance and repairs schedules - The flexibility to capture production and exploration data with configurable time periods and units of measure to produce cost-per-ounce and cost-per-meter reporting - Comprehensive business intelligence combining financial and production data via the informative, easy-to-use management dashboard

Sage Accpac ERP for Mining—A Rock-Solid ERP

Sage Accpac ERP includes a wide range of modules to handle the entire mining cycle, from development to exploration to production and sales. Sage Accpac ERP is a highly configurable solution driven by workflow rules and authorisations to ensure accurate data capture and complete control over budgets.

Core Financial Modules

Sage Accpac is renowned for its rock-solid financials and reporting. The transactional analysis capability of all modules gives you more in-depth costing information than the general ledger. CFOs can now keep a concise general ledger with up to 10 levels of analysis, including comprehensive information on additional costs to equipment, cost centers, or responsibility centers for dynamic reporting.

Workflow

Sage Accpac ERP quickly and efficiently processes simple data entry requests from the mine to the appropriate cost centers or budgets with built-in, comprehensive authorisation capabilities. The complete workflow process drives accurate data capture, improves decision-making, and reduces potential errors through a built-in authorization trail. The workflow solution manages procurement and internal stock issues by allowing for the creation of an unlimited number of workflows and associated rules and alerts. These simple-to-use screens provide CFOs with the correct information analysed appropriately at data entry. As requisitions are made, they are automatically allocated to the appropriate cost centers, shafts, processes, and equipment, based on user profiles, stock structures, or expense codes. This saves time and eliminates the need for reallocations at month end.

Asset Management and Maintenance

Sage Accpac ERP appreciates the need for capital budgeting and end-to-end asset management. Investment in assets is a significant part of any mining operation, and Sage Accpac ERP offers the appropriate controls over budgeting and procurement while ensuring compliance with IFRS and Sarbanes-Oxley (USA). Asset management is achieved through a configurable set of modules, from asset depreciation and acquisition to auditing and tracking.

Asset maintenance is a fundamental part of mining operations. Sage Accpac ERP tracks the cost of equipment and provides a comprehensive history of all assets, including faults, agreements, warranty claims, return authorizations, and a complete audit trail. This makes it easier to predict the asset's life cycle and financial profitability with full statistical analysis.

Production and Exploration Data

The production data capture module allows users to set up an area or operation against which costs can be tracked, such as shafts, open pits, or tailings. Beneath this layer of costs lies a lower level of processing such as shaft sinking, development waste or stopping (depending on the environment), which is linked back to the top level. Typically, the plant area will track the processing of material from all areas and link it to a sub-component of the general ledger account for reporting purposes only. The module allows users to specify units of measure for the production data captured, such as meters advanced, tons surveyed, tons hoisted and treated, and carats recovered. This is captured as needed—daily, weekly, or monthly—and linked to the business intelligence suite.

Sage Accpac ERP has been designed to manage surveying and monitoring activities and capture geological site survey information. Information from the mobile devices is integrated throughout the mining suite to give management increased visibility and operational control.

Business Intelligence

Sage Accpac ERP for Mining facilitates the creation of reports that combine actual vs. budgeted data with complete drill down to the detail level of production data—information every Australian CFO needs.

The financial and production data is audited and approved, giving the Board of Directors comfort that operations and finance are in synchronisation. The reporting modules allow for in-depth analysis at any level—right down to equipment or shaft information—which helps mining companies like yours make faster, better strategic decisions.

Summary

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