Project Cost Management: A Mining Life Support

Mining projects seem to have a life of their own, sometimes spanning over 40 years.

If you’re one of those mining organizations that lack centralized services to handle the wide array of project needs, call the Doctor – because you are in serious need of a good way to track, manage, and prioritize the project cycle.

The best way to maintain a healthy project life cycle is to view, analyze, and report the cost and productivity details.

Hard Dollar has created a remedy: HD for Mining, a Project Cost Management solution.

The key is healthy visibility.

Think of it as putting you project on life support—and before you flat-line or code blue, HD for Mining is there to save the day, providing you real-time visibility of scope, cost and schedule throughout the complete work cycle.

Owners, contractors and end users are able to monitor and assign resources, evaluate priorities, and manage their overall project portfolio more efficiently.

Powerful integration with industry leading scheduling software, Oracle’s Primavera® and Microsoft® Project, establishes a living relationship between the detailed cost model, work plan and schedule.

The HD solution is designed to capture the most relevant and important data pertaining to your project for an efficient workflow while enabling your business to make the right strategic decisions.

Here are some of the advanced features that allow you to create total visibility:

• Create cost and resource-loaded schedules in record time, synchronizing work plan, budget and schedule.
• Control updated activity IDs, descriptions, durations, completion dates, resources and costs.
• Automatically load scope items, estimated durations, resources and costs into the schedule.
• Slice and dice the project and create user-defined roll-ups to support internal and external reporting requirements.
• Build dashboards and graphs to provide detailed information on cash flow, earned values and resource utilization.

So call the doctor off; HD for Mining keeps your mining plan healthy during its long life, with a prescription for real-time visibility of scope, cost and schedule.

Tags: Estimating Software, Mine planning, Project Cost Management

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