Mining runs on assets that are expensive, remote, and costly to have standing still. The SAP questions that matter in this sector are rarely about the finance module. They are about whether a plant maintenance work order reaches an artisan underground, whether a breakdown was predictable, and whether the shift data reaching head office is current or a day old.
Where SAP earns its place
- Plant maintenance and asset management for fixed plant and mobile equipment
- Predictive maintenance, applying machine learning to sensor and history data to anticipate failure
- Materials management and procurement across remote sites with intermittent connectivity
- Health, safety and environmental reporting with a defensible audit trail
- Production and shift reporting through SAP Analytics Cloud
- Contractor and workforce management across multiple operations
Getting SAP to the working face
A maintenance process is only as good as its slowest step, and in mining that step is usually a person walking back to a terminal. We build SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 applications that let artisans and supervisors raise notifications, confirm work orders, capture readings and check stock from a phone or tablet, including where connectivity is unreliable. The measurable result is a shorter gap between a fault being observed and being recorded.
Digital mining without replacing everything
Most mining groups are not in a position to rebuild their landscape. SAP Business Technology Platform lets you extend what you already run, adding IoT data, dashboards and custom applications on top of a core you keep clean and upgradeable. That matters more than usual with the ECC maintenance deadline of December 2027 approaching.
If you are scoping an SAP project in this sector, get in touch. We are happy to walk through your landscape before you commit to anything.
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