Client Context
A leading mining group in South Africa, operates multiple mines with complex, high-volume operations. The company sought to standardize its processes across sites through a JD Edwards ERP transformation, creating a scalable global template for long-term growth and operational efficiency.
Challenges
- Multiple modules integration across Finance, Procurement, Inventory, and Production.
- Legacy system complexity – mapping and migrating diverse local processes into a unified JDE framework.
- Template creation – designing a global template flexible enough to meet site-specific needs yet standardized for efficiency.
- Phased rollout – ensuring smooth go-lives across five geographically dispersed mines.
- 24×7 operations – requiring uninterrupted support and high system availability.
- Version coexistence – managing upgrades and support for both legacy and new JDE versions during transition.
Our Approach
- Conducted legacy system analysis and mapped key processes to JDE standards.
- Designed and deployed a global ERP template, ensuring scalability and consistency across mining sites.
- Executed onsite go-live for the first mine as part of Pilot, followed by a phased rollout across four additional mines.
- Established a 24×7 support model to sustain mission-critical mining operations.
- Delivered an upgrade program to move the template to the latest JDE version and extend rollout to remaining sites.
- Supported co-existing versions to ensure business continuity throughout the transformation journey while whole instance to the latest version.
Results
- Standardized processes across all mining sites with a global ERP template.
- Successful go-lives at five mines with minimal disruption to operations.
- Improved system stability and scalability for future growth.
- Seamless coexistence of old and new versions during upgrade, avoiding downtime.
- Moving to latest version gave a advantage to the organization to best feature available to maximize the ROI.
- Reliable, round-the-clock application support for critical mining operations.
