At a Glance

 

  • - Name: Oz Minerals
  • - Location: Melbourne, Australia
  • - Industry: Mining
  • - Products and services:
      Zinc and lead
      mining, smelting, and distribution
  • - Revenue: US$1.25 billion
  • - Employees: 3,500
  • - Web site: www.ozminerals.com
  • - Implementation Partner:
      Engineering Informatics

 

 

Why SAP

 

  • - World-class document
       management functionality
  • - Strong recommendations from
       existing users
  • - Tight integration with existing plant
       maintenance and materials
       management functionality
  • - Friendly user interface


Implementation Highlights

 

  • - Met all schedule, budget, and    engineering goals on all 6
       implementations to date
  • - Migrated 250,000 documents to new    solution
  • - Developed interfaces to AutoCAD
      software and replaced all 12 legacy
      Document management systems

 

Benefits

 

  • - Achieved compliance with
       regulations
  • - Simplified access, use, and support
       of document management
       infrastructure
  • - Attained universal user acceptance
  • - Improved productivity
  • - Achieved a standard companywide
  • - approach to classifying, retrieving,
      and controlling documents

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Oz Minerals (OZL), formerly Zinifex Limited, is one of the largest integrated zinc producers in the world. From its headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, Oz Minerals operates two mines and two smelters domestically, including the world-class, open-cut Century Mine in Queensland, as well as smelters in the Netherlands and the United States. With 3,500 employees and US$1.25 billion in revenues, the company is one of the world’s foremost producers of zinc and lead, and distributes these metals and associated alloys to customers in 20 countries.

 

Challenges and Opportunities

 

- Risked noncompliancy with health, safety, and environmental regulations
- Faced legal, production, and engineering project risks from any potential
  failure to access the most recent, approved version of critical documents
- Suffered the inefficiency of using 12 disparate systems to manage documents

Objectives

 

- Implement single corporatewide document management solution
- Make the solution easy to access and use
- Mitigate business risk


SAP® Solutions and Services

 

- SAP® Easy Document Management application
- SAP NetWeaver® Portal component
- SAP Business Workflow tool

 

Requirement

 

Oz Minerals turned to SAP for help reaching and maintaining compliance with the many government-imposed health, safety, and environmental regulations that apply to the mining and resources industry. Complying with these regulations requires ready access to accurate engineering drawings and other documents. Oz Minerals installed the SAP® Easy Document Management application to provide this access, replacing the 12 disparate document management systems previously in place.

 

To verify its choice of SAP Easy Document Management, Oz Minerals checked with several existing users, all of whom provided extremely positive recommendations. “They praised not only the software but also the implementation partner SAP recommended, Nokusa Engineering Informatics.”

 

Outcomes

 

A word from Phil Palmer, Program Manager, Zinifex Limited

 

“Nokusa Engineering Informatics demonstrated exceptional commitment to openness, trust, and relationship building. They are the best SAP implementation partner we have ever had,” he concludes. “And the SAP products are up to SAP’s usual high standards. The portal is so user-friendly that we now have 1,500 users, more than any other system or SAP solution has ever enjoyed. SAP Easy Document Management has proven to be a world-class document management system, in the same league with the leading solutions on the market. We recommend it highly to any SAP user in need of a strong document management solution. All in all, we could not be more pleased about the decisions we made and the partners we chose.”

 

It also recognizes Nokusa Engineering Informatics’s excellence in meeting all project goals on time and within budget on all six occasions to date.