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Case Study Mining SAP Analytics Cloud Digital Reporting

Decision Inc. Delivers a Digital Reporting
and Budget-Tracking Solution to Anglo American GDG

Client
Anglo American GDG
Industry
Mining
Location
South Africa
Solution
Digital Reporting with SAP Analytics Cloud

The Requirement

The Group Discovery & Geosciences reports were manual and non-standardised, making it hard to track the cost of projects against the allocated budget.

The Solution

Decision Inc. standardised the reports, brought them into Anglo’s SAP HANA database and then visualised them using SAP Analytics Cloud.

The Impact

Anglo American GDG can accurately track the cost of their projects, allowing them to reassign funding on-the-go.

01 · Client Overview

About Anglo American GDG

Anglo American is a global mining company. Its Group Discovery and Geosciences (GDG) division oversees the discovery of new mineral deposits and the maximising of value from its current portfolio.

To do this, they use integrated Life of Asset Planning (LoAP). LoAP incorporates leading operational geoscience, mining, and processing best practice, mine closure and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG).

Anglo American GDG
02 · The Requirement

The Requirement

Anglo American’s GDG division was looking to digitise and automate its reporting framework, and approached Decision Inc. because Anglo GDG could not get the answers they needed from their reports.

The challenges were identified as:

  • Reporting was carried out manually
  • Reports were not standardised, which led to a diversity of data structures
  • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) codes could not be assigned consistently in their SAP systems
  • Accurate financial overviews of projects were difficult to obtain
  • The time taken to complete reports was affecting productivity
03 · The Solution

A Digital Reporting Backbone

Anglo GDG commissioned Decision Inc. to provide a digital reporting system that would resolve these issues. Anglo is heavily invested in the SAP technology stack and had previously outlined a road map to expand into the SAP Cloud. SAP Analytics Cloud allows businesses to bring the two worlds of analytics and planning together in one platform for optimal use of the technology.

SAP Business Warehouse

The technological backbone, taking views from the SAP HANA database and the SAP Business Explorer Suite (BEx).

SAP Analytics Cloud

Reports where Anglo staff can drill down into the data and perform their own analyses, without learning complicated scripting languages.

Managed Integrations

RFC Online, AOP SAP Finance and the Master Budget Spreadsheet, brought into the Business Warehouse to keep the data flowing correctly.

Data from these systems was brought into the SAP Business Warehouse and then outputted in SAP Analytics Cloud. Reporting was automated, and so was the allocation of WBS codes.

Decision Inc. trained GDG staff on the use of the system and completed a handover of the system through a Go-Live process.

04 · The Result

The Benefits of Value Realised

Anglo GDG now has consolidated data from multiple sources in one system. Their reporting has been standardised and is now done digitally rather than manually. This has allowed Anglo GDG to easily visualise all of their reports and track the accurate status of their project spend against budgeted spend. They can drill down into these automated reports and get the answers they need quickly.

Reporting
Intelligent reporting functions, standardised and fully digital
Analysis
A single platform for analysis across multiple data sources
Insight
Smart insights that support better business decisions
Forecasting
Portfolio Planning-Operating Master Scheduling with accurate forecasts at a granular level
Funding
Greater confidence in allocating funding, with the ability to reallocate on-the-go

Anglo GDG can now give accurate forecasts to their leadership on the status and outcome of projects at a granular level, improving overall effectiveness and efficiency.

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