Runge is a member of the SAP Industry Value Network (IVN), which includes mining companies and technology partners to address the mining industry's needs and business challenges. The IVN includes representatives from the Industry Advisory Council for Mining such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Anglo Platinum, Codelco, Exxaro, Foundation Coal, Gold Fields, and Goldcorp. Other key partners include Meridium, Technidata, OSIsoft, Citect, and Gijima AST.
Runge has also partnered with SAP to release a pre-built composite application called xSTMS (xApp Short-Term Mine Scheduling). An example of the xSTMS application for a SAP process order is outlined in the following steps:
- xSTMS is deployed to an MII server.
- xSTMS obtains the short-term plans defined in Mining Dynamics (at a week or shift level).
- xSTMS visualises the information contained in the plan using the SAP portal for approval.
Once approved, this information is then transformed into a SAP process order and sent to SAP (GSAP or 1SAP).
After the process is created, MII could collect further data from fleet management systems, relate this to the short-term plan from Mining Dynamics, and record this in SAP against that process order.
xSTMS was designed with assistance from BHPBilliton and the SAP Mining IVN which includes other MII users.
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