In today's demand-based mining environment, time-to-market is paramount. Companies are under pressure to rapidly establish operations, improve throughput and deliver predicted grade quality. By managing and automating essential business processes, solutions built on the powerful and flexible Microsoft platform can help your mining company do all this and more, maximising the effectiveness of your supply chain from the pit to the ship.

Remote sites require efficient communication, and many of the workers onsite have limited IT skills. Therefore, the automation of everyday tasks utilising electronic forms and automated workflows, can provide a simple means of creating, monitoring and managing day to day operations.

Systems can be designed to automate Production tasks (eg receipt of goods and services), HR tasks (eg Incident Reports and Leave Applications), Payroll/Accounts (eg Timesheets) – in fact, ANY repetitive task can easily be converted from a paper-based to a SharePoint-based automated process.

The benefits of this are many – reporting, management and communication will be greatly enhanced (through dashboards, email reminders and task lists), administrative errors (eg lost forms) will be reduced and trends will be more easily recognised and reported.

Most importantly, forms and workflows can be followed up in a timely manner, with multiple levels of escalation an option for any workflow.