Industry: Energy
The client stands as a leading global conglomerate in the natural resources sector, placing a strong focus on a diversified portfolio encompassing primary interests in a wide array of sectors. Their core areas of operation span across aluminum, zinc-lead-silver, oil and gas, iron ore, steel, copper, power, ferro alloys, nickel, semiconductor, and glass. With an impressive array of world-class strategic assets strategically located across India, South Africa, Namibia, and Liberia, the natural resources conglomerate is optimally poised to deliver enduring value and remarkable cash flows in the long term.
Business Challenges
Solutions
Celebal Technologies leveraged Microsoft tools and services to help client envision an end-to-end supply chain management solution.
A virtual control tower was implemented with features of real-time tracking, visibility, and control of materials. The Supply Chain Control Tower gave an insight into planning and procurement activities, along with intelligent chartering and dispatching of the material.
The control tower used constraint-based optimization to identify the factors for high demurrage charges. The tower analyzed leakage costs, punitive charges, dead freight, demurrages, etc.
With the increased visibility and analytics capabilities, the control tower identified the dependent processes and optimized them to minimize demurrages.
It provided real-time visualization of data to communicate effectively with various partners and suppliers in the ecosystem. Another important feature was an overall insight in terms of business KPIs on Power BI dashboards. All the critical information was also made available on mobile phones.
Technologies Used
Business Impacts
Supply Chain process visibility improved ten-fold after the implementation of the Control Tower.
There was an overall reduction of dollars per ton and demurrages. Quarter-wise visibility on the Alumina/bauxite stock was provided to manage domestic and importing needs.
The solution helped the client analyze patterns in procurement due to seasonality and external factors and make better decisions based on trends.
The analytics platform optimized resources for effective rake planning and scheduling. This helped the company minimize logistic leakages.
These improvements enabled our client to grow rapidly, realize new opportunities, and help them carve a niche for themselves in the industry.
The partnership between the multinational mining company and Celebal Technologies revolutionized their supply chain management. By embracing cutting-edge technology, implementing advanced analytics, and harnessing the power of Supply Chain Control Tower, the client successfully optimized its supply chain operations. The result was a more cost-effective, sustainable, and resilient supply chain, empowering the client to maintain a competitive edge in the global mining industry.
