The logistics challenges of mining companies are unique and complex. Despite this, investments in logistics, people, processes and systems often take a back seat to core investments around exploring, extracting and processing minerals. Mining companies increasingly recognize the value of savings in supply chain and logistics functions. Given the scale of economies involved in the Mining industry, small efficiency gains in logistics functions can result in sizable savings across operating periods.
4PL & 3PL who specialize in industrial freight can provide targeted solutions that reduce operating costs and improve service levels, while freeing your team to focus on strategic initiatives. However, modern technology & tools enable the industry to drive 4PL & 3PL providers to execute consignments in the maximum efficient manner. Certain logistics factors such as ground schedules, multi modal, managing fleet traffic, capacity utilization, consolidated invoicing and the like are unique to mining industry.
Oracle Transport Management modules of Logistics Cloud have the feature footprint to handle the nuances of the mining industry across outbound and inbound logistics (if any). Internal transport for mines, managing stockpiles, manage external transport across multiple modes, on-field managing of transport through Mobility can be effectively achieved through Oracle Logistics Cloud solutions.