Hyperion PlanningAccelerator Templates for the Mining Sector

Better information. Better decisions.

M-Power is a specialist consulting firm delivering Performance Management and Business Intelligence Solutions to commercial and public sector organisations across Australia and beyond.With our headquarters in Perth, Western Australia, a global mining hub, our expertise in the mining sector is unrivalled. Our consultancy team has been delivering mining focused solutions for over a decade and is arguably the most experienced implementer of mining specific planning and reporting solutions in the Asia Pacific region. We work with the world’s largest resources companies delivering a range of industry focused projects from global roll outs to point solutions for individual mine sites. Our ever growing commodity experience includes Gold, Copper, Iron Ore, Zinc, Mineral Sands, Coal, Lead, Nickel, Aluminium, Diamonds and Salt.

Based on our detailed knowledge in this sector M-Power has developed a set of Accelerator Templates which we deploy on top of Hyperion Planning. The preloaded templates, which have been developed in partnership with our customers, conform to industry best practices and ensure a cost effective, predictable Hyperion Planning implementation. The templates cover the following key areas:

Physicals Used to capture and report actual and plan information covering the end-to-end mining process from exploration through mining, processing, shipment and sales.

Opex Provides a driver based planning solution, for example diesel costs are typically driven by truck hours. Actuals are loaded from the General Ledger allowing variance analysis at cost centre / account code detail by site.

Workforce Typically a position based planning capability. Users review current workforce and manage new hires / retrenchments; the model references various assumptions to derive total cost of employment including FIFO and camp costs. Tight integration with your HR system to source actual data facilitates variance analysis.

Capex/Projects From when a project is first conceived during the long term budget cycle, through the various approval and execution phases, our Capex module provides a single reference point for planning and reporting actuals versus plan.

Financials P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow solutions linked to the other modules above. The Cash Flow component is used to derive actual as well as plan. Also includes stockpile valuation for both actual and plan.

Daily Physicals Stand alone component designed to answer what happened yesterday, where are we at this month, how is our grade trending etc.

Maintenance Integrates with your maintenance system and the mine plan. It projects mobile fleet and process plant downtime and associated costs for both scheduled and unscheduled activities.

Most of our clients leverage the templates capability across life of mine (LOM), with the option to run numerous “what if” analyses assessing different operational strategies and seeing their impact through to financials. Joint Venture ownership rules are built into the templates, giving you the flexibility to look at an operation both in a 100% sense as well as the Joint Venture share.

The Accelerator Templates cover a broad range of a mining company’s requirements but we understand that every company is different and a “one size fits all” approach is not practical. Typically we find that 80% of your Planning and Reporting needs will be covered by our templates. For the remainder we work with you and your team through a set of pre-defined gap analysis techniques to define the perfect solution for your organisation. We find it’s easier to modify than create.

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We’ve pre loaded the Mining Accelerator Templates with best practice from both a functional and technical perspective including all our learning’s over the last ten years. This ensures a low risk, cost effective, predictable Hyperion Planning implementation, the templates include:

• Optimiseddesigntechniquestomaximise performance and reduce maintenance

• Pre-builtstructures

• Pre-builtefficientcalculations

• Pre-builtreportingtemplates

• Pre-defineddataentry

• Dataautomationroutines

• Detaileddocumentation

• Pre-builtsecuritymodel

• Industryspecifictrainingmodules

The benefits of deploying M-Power’s Mining Accelerator Templates include:

• Reducedimplementationtimeframes,loweringcostsand time/expense to value.

• Reducedprojectrisks.Everyprojectcarriesrisks.Ourtemplates, industry knowledge and track record reduces implementation risks substantially

• Miningindustrybestpracticedevelopedwiththeworld’sleadingmining companies is included from day one

• StrongUserAcceptance–Enabledbyearlyvisualisationoftheapplication and ease of use

• SimplifiedAdministration–We’vepreloadedthesmartsthat minimise administration and support costs

• Standardised,lowrisk,industryspecificdeploymentof Hyperion Planning

Why Use Accelerator Templates?

In our experience the Accelerator Templates capture 80% of your requirements; the remaining 20% is defined using GAP Analysis techniques. It’s easier to modify than to create.

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“In partnership with M-Power, we have delivered daily operational dashboards and reports in Hyperion within a 6 week period.” Keith Mayes, OZ Minerals

“Another vendor had been pursuing us for over a year, but M-Power’s expertise and the strength of it’s work with Oracle, convinced us that this was the right way to go. M-Power has a great knowledge of the mining industry and exceptional skills with Oracle Hyperion Planning,” David Sanders, Iluka

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“M-Power’s advice on ‘what to do’ & more importantly ‘what not to do’ from both a process & technology perspective has been instrumental in driving our Hyperion project forward.” Nick Harding, Newmont

“The Hyperion project has ensured critical business information is accurate, complete and timely, giving us additional time to challenge and analyse the results.” Chris Hunt, Cliffs Natural Resources

“We set M-Power a challenge; deliver a fully functioning hosted Hyperion environment with our applications migrated into it within 2 weeks. They were able to achieve this with significant performance improvements as a bonus.” Peter Dean, Minerals &

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Some of our mining customers and what they say about us:

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Perth 1139 Hay Street West Perth PERTH WA 6005 T (08) 9481 0013 F (08) 9481 0012

Melbourne Level 3 480 Collins Street MELBOURNE VIC 3000 T (03) 8610 6349 F (03) 8610 6334

Brisbane Level 24 AMP Place 10EagleStreet BRISBANE QLD 4000 T (07) 3103 1369 F (07) 3303 8445

Sydney Level 6 115 Pitt Street SYDNEY NSW 2000 T (02) 8188 6555 F (02) 9235 3171

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