OUR ADVISORY SERVICES
Improve operational performance
Whether you’re implementing an ERP, improving maintenance performance, reducing inventory costs, modernising infrastructure or preparing for growth, our team of experienced consultants helps you identify opportunities, implement best practices, and deliver measurable business improvements.
Why engage with us?
We specialise in various areas of the resources sector and focus on helping you set up your organisation for success. Our goal is to deliver innovative yet practical solutions that can be easily implemented and tailored to fit your organisation’s operations.
Instead of identifying areas where your company may be lacking, we assist you in implementing the necessary changes to overcome any challenges.
No matter what growth stage your company is in, from initial startup or a mature organisation, our advisory services equip you with the tools needed to help your business grow and thrive.
Our process
Discover
We understand your operations, interview key stakeholders and review your systems.
Assess
After discovery, we assess your current processes, identify risks, compare against industry best practice, and analyse opportunities for improvement.
Recommend
From the assessment, we map out a practical roadmap for your company, we give suggestions on which improvements to prioritise, and we present our findings.
Implement
We work alongside your team to deliver the changes we suggest and help you measure outcomes from the changes.
Our Advisory Services
We offer specialised subject matter consulting in a number of business areas important to our customers. These areas include, but are not limited to; strategic asset management, supply chain management, finance, human capital and IT architecture.
Finance and Governance
Our financial consultants are trained CPA’s or ex-commercial managers with years of experience in customer environments.
Where we can help:
- Guidance on the best practice chart of accounts
- Set-up of GL hierarchies for financial reporting.
- Refine your accounts payable processes.
- Set-up of security and monitoring to reduce fraudulent activity.
- Governance frameworks and models across departments within your company
Ideal for:
Mining companies growing rapidly or implementing new ERP systems.
Asset Maintenance Management
Take a holistic look at your asset management practices. Working together, we determine your needs, refine your maintenance management strategy, and help you understand your asset data and industry standard frameworks to optimise your asset’s productivity.
Where we can help:
- Asset hierarchy
- Risk and criticality of assets
- Regulatory and legislation requirements
- Business continuity
- Work scheduling and planning process
Ideal for:
Customer who use Pronto Xi’s Maintenance Management and need help in improving efficiencies and reducing equipment downtime.
Supply Chain
Our advisory services can help you plan out your inventory needs by working with you to assess each step of your supply chain.
Where we can help:
- Streamline warehouses, suppliers and catalogues
- Review stocktake processes
- Review of critical spares
- Set-up of product hierarchies and groups
- Tracking of goods and forecasting
Ideal for:
Inventory-heavy customers who want to optimise their stock levels and supplier management.
Mine Production Systems
Working with you, we look at your mine production needs, from extraction and processing to transportation to maximise your operations. Working with two industry-leading solutions, MPX Mine Production Software and PLODtrack, we can help you to:
Where we can help:
- Improve your ability to forecast, plan and achieve mining production targets.
- Effectively allocate your resources to maximise productivity while maximising downtime and costs.
- Reduce reporting time and data accuracy and integration.
- Enhance safety on the mine site through leveraging real-time data, predictive analytics and automated safety monitoring.
- Track your emissions, manage waste, and adhere to regulatory standards.
Ideal for:
Mining and mining services companies to optimise their production, ensure safety and boost profitability through the implementation of mine production systems.
Project Management
From small projects to complex multinational implementations and upgrades, our team of project managers produce results every time. Our Project Management team carefully plans your project using best practice methods and expertise.
- Managed transitions moving from legacy systems
- Continuous improvement
- On budget delivery
- On-time delivery
We have executed hundreds of successful ERP implementations and upgrades over the years, priding ourselves on the quality of our project management services.
Our Project managers utilise the PRINCE2 methodology, meaning your project is carefully planned out using best practice methods combined with our team’s expertise. From the creation of a statement of work through to comprehensive project charters and plans, we work closely with all key stakeholders to ensure project success. By using the PRINCE2 methodology we are able to effectively coordinate projects to mitigate risks of any kind, so you will have peace of mind knowing your project is in expert hands.
Change Management
We believe that effective organisational change management starts from within. We take you through a thorough planning exercise and assessment (baseline) of current stakeholders’ views and their alignment to the objectives. This helps you getting buy in from your stakeholders and identifying the influencers within your company who can help drive change.
Where we can help:
- Fostering a shared change purpose
- Ensuring the enablement of effective change leadership
- Ensure those who are transitioning through the change are well supported and confident.
Ideal for:
Companies going through a significant change in software, or companies that are adopting new software.
IT Infrastrucutre
Deciding on what IT infrastructure can be a headache for companies, especially when access is required in remote locations or across countries. Our infrastructure team can help you scale out your business by providing solutions that can handle more complex challenges.
Where we can help:
- Transitioning to the cloud
- Network solutions
- Cyber Security
- Bring your own devices
- Upgrading
- Compatibility issues
Ideal for:
Small to medium-sized companies that don’t have their own internal team, or larger companies needing complex solutions for remote locations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What advisory services does Scope Systems provide?
We provide a range of advisory services, including finance and governance, asset optimisation, supply chain optimisation, mine production management, project management, change management, and IT infrastructure.
Who are your advisory services designed for?
Our advisory services can be used by everyone, we specialise in providing consulting services for the mining and resources sectors.
Can you review our existing ERP system?
Yes, we can review your existing ERP system processes to ensure it is aligned to your business processes.
How do I know if my ERP system is underperforming?
Signs your ERP system is underperforming are if it’s not aligned to your processes, if it’s quicker to do tasks manually rather than through the system, if you can’t rely on the data accuracy or if it’s creating a bottleneck of work.
Can you support multi-site mining operations?
Yes, many of our customers who take up our advisory services are multi-site mining operations.
Can you improve our financial reporting?
Yes, our financial consultants are trained CPA’s or ex-commercial managers with years of experience in commercial operations and in consulting roles and can advise on best practice for financial reporting.
Can you help build executive dashboards?
Yes, our business intelligence team can build dashboards for IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI and QlikView.
Will you help implement your recommendations?
Yes, we offer hands-on consulting services, where we help to implement recommendations. This sets us apart from traditional consulting services.
What makes Scope Systems different from traditional consulting firms?
We are different from traditional consulting firms as we offer hands on consulting services along with providing software solutions specifically for the mining and resources sector. We set ourselves apart by advising and then delivering our solutions.
How does an advisory engagement work?
An advisory engagement is a collaborative, consulting-style arrangement where an external party provides strategic guidance, industry insights, and actionable roadmaps to help you solve specific problems, manage risks, or achieve future goals. Our advisory engagements follow 4 steps: Discover, assess, recommend and implement
How can advisory services improve mining operations?
Advisory services can improve your mining operations by taking a step back and assessing operational gaps. Our consultants have working in the industry for many years and help advise on best practice processes so that your operations are streamlined and optimised.