Idemitsu Australia Resources | Mining SAP Software to Improve Communication and Support Growth

Date: 26 Aug 2011
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After 30 years in business, coal mining firm Idemitsu Australia Resources IAR) found itself confronted by new challenges. Organisational change and corporate go

Quick Facts

• Location: New South Wales and Queensland, Australia
• Industry: Mining
• Products and services: Coal mining
• Revenue: Approximately A$1 billion-$2billion (US$1.1 billion-$2.1 billion)
• Employees: 850
• Implementation Partner: Extend Technologies

Challenges and Opportunities

• Create a platform to manage significant projected company growth
• Unite different business units into one company-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution
• Move to a shared services model
• Meet internal corporate governance requirements 

 Objectives

• Achieve commonality in company systems, introducing a service shared by all business units
• Migrate different company units to a new ERP system
• Ensure that the strengths of the previous ERP system were recreated in a flexible manner
• Accomplish standardisation of systems across the company
• Accelerate and streamline monthly reporting cycle 

SAP Solutions and Services

• SAP Business All-in-One for Mining solution
• Extend Technologies SAP qualified HCM Payroll solution

Why SAP?

• Strong and capable solution to support current and future business growth
• Comprehensive and powerful reporting tools in an integrated environment
• Flexible system ensuring that strengths of the company's existing ERP software were incorporated into the new solution

Benefits

• Monthly company reporting reduced by 30%
• Surge in effective company wide communication
• Simplification of systems across the business
• Ability to report and create common data across the business
• Replication of mobile applications used at one site, to be introduced for the first time to other site staff
• Company poised for future growth and smarter management, including plans to raise efficiency, reduce inventory levels,and initiate group procurement and common materials management

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