Improving productivity and finding cost savings are major concerns within the resource industry. Recent industry research (McKinsey & Company, 2015) indicates that mine productivity has declined by as much as 28% in the last decade. Helix Driver Tree for SAP is a powerful visualisation, modelling and diagnostic application designed to improve productivity and unlock value using the power of value driver trees.
Value driver trees were originally developed by DuPont as a visualisation tool to display the relationships between physical processes and financial data. They have been applied in the mining industry to support cost saving initiatives, for performance benchmarking and to assist operations in understanding the key drivers of value creation. Helix Driver Tree is a powerful addition to the SAP Mining Industry Solution, delivering enterprise ready Value Driver Tree technology to the resources sector.
Developed by SAP Consultancy Helix Intelligence, the new Value Driver Tree toolset will provide substantial benefits to SAP users across the resource sector. Organisations using Helix Driver Tree for SAP can model the enterprise production and value chain from end-to-end. Integrated within SAP BI and Enterprise Portal, users have direct access to their production and cost data.
Helix Intelligence’s Managing Director Andrew Hely says, “Helix Driver Tree for SAP is purpose built to enhance business improvement programs and support operational performance management processes. The application integrates with SAP BI allowing users to map individual driver tree nodes with plan, forecast and actual production and industry benchmark data. Helix Driver Tree is designed to assist productivity improvement specialists, engineers and business analysts to identify, monitor and control business improvement projects with all the power of SAP’s security, data management, reporting and analytics tools at their fingertips.”
Helix Intelligence is working in collaboration with resource industry consultants Stephen M Williams and Associates who provide the industry “know how” to model the client’s operations using the value driver tree technology. All major mining and processing methods are supported using the Helix Driver Tree application and it can be implemented for a single mining operation or for complex multiple mine, rail and port operations.
Further details are available at www.helixintelligence.com