Value driver planning for mining using microsoft power bi webinar

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Value Driver Planning for Mining
Using Microsoft Power BI
Jay Anantharaman
CoFounder, Visual BI (ValQ | xViz | VBI View | VBX)

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Webinar
Agenda
Company Overview1
Mining Industry Outlook2
4
(Live Demo) Building Your Own Models – The Analyst Experience (Live Demo)5
Value Driver Planning – An Introduction3
Analytics with Tableau6
Q&A
7
6
7
ValQ Product Information
(Live Demo) Value Driver Planning for Mining- The Business Executive/Decision Maker Experience
7
10 mins
5 mins
5 mins
20 mins

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Mining Industry Outlook

Mining Industry Outlook
Productivity started reversing the negative trend
since 2014, albeit slowly
2018 saw better investments in capital, increased
production, cashflow & shareholder returns
But yet, climate change, technology and changing consumer sentiment are weighing down outlook.

Mining Industry Recommendations
1. Harness technology, including digital, analytics, and automation across the organization, to
solve the key challenges of productivity, safety, customer satisfaction, and supply chain
management.
2. Adapt the management systems (such as work processes) to enable the company to realize
the potential offered by the new technologies.
3. Overhaul the culture and capabilities to achieve a more agile, responsive organization that can
get value from and adapt to modern technologies.
Source: Mckinsey, “Behind the mining productivity upswing: Technology-enabled transformation”, Sep 2018

Value Driver Modeling

Analysis in Spreadsheets
The Typical Approach
• Spreadsheet models are typically used to support
business analysis & decision-making, with data often
pulled out from systems
• Very common for models built using spreadsheets to
contain a high number of decision parameters
• Visualising, simulating and sharing models is
challenging
• Become personal tools only understood by the
consultant, accountant or engineer who created it.
• Models therefore often static, point-in-time and for a
single period
A typical spreadsheet model

Value Driver Models
Definition
Value Driver Models are mathematical or conceptual
business models visualised in a way that links the
business KPIs (what management or stakeholders
care about) to the operational drivers (the things
that can be influenced to change the KPI’s)

Value Driver Model
A Simple Mining Use Case
Net Profit
Revenue
Cost
Sales Qty
Price
Qty Produced
Cost/Qty
Stock Change
Qty Produced
Production
Qty/Hour
Operating Hours
Planned Hours
Unplanned
Downtime

Value Driver Models
The Opportunity
Imagine if we could make our models come to life by making
them real-time, with instant simulation capabilities and so
easy to use that it becomes a tool not only for analysts and
engineers but also for senior and operational management

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Industry
Mining & Metals
Location
Australia
Function
Operations and Corporate Finance
Challenges
• Existing bottom-up planning platform
supported some scenario capabilities but
not a pragmatic enterprise-wide model
• Various high level models in Excel but
were facing the typical challenges: single
period models; static; difficult to visualise
as it wasn’t dynamic; not shared widely
and unable to scale
Objective
• Phase 1: Deliver a holistic view for the
entire business to perform what-if
analysis during budgeting and
reforecasting
• Phase 2: Extend model to include
detailed operational drivers for key
operations
• Phase 3: Extend model to other
operations
• PanAust is an Australian-headquartered copper and gold producer in Laos with pre-development and exploration opportunities in Laos,
Papua New Guinea and Chile.
• Implemented initial Phase 1 project in three months. A model with 314 KPIs and drivers. One analyst from Corporate did complete definition
assisted by one technical part-time resource. Phase 2 was implemented in three months, with the model expanding to 1400 KPIs / nodes. One
analyst from Operations in Laos defined and configured the model assisted by one technical part-time resource.
“It provides real-time information and simulation capabilities that assist our business in understanding the financial sensitivities from a price
volume perspective. They also assist the business as follows:
• Finance can easily get the NPAT impact from changes in cost drivers (e.g. metal prices) by just clicking in the model.
• Scenario comparison during forecasting and budgeting process.
• Easily calculate the cost savings/opportunities or risk impacts to the Operations.
• The supply team analyse the benefits of a cheaper commodity price versus consumption usage.
We were able to model all the specific drivers and calculations requested by the business. The configuration of a model is simple and fast as
long as you are familiar with your business model.”
Rochelle B. Austria | Senior Finance Systems Advisor
CASE STUDY
Customer Case Study - PanAust

Demo

Modeling Using ValQ

ValQ is built for Analysts
▪ Is any coding involved?
• No. ValQ is analyst-friendly and no programming is
required. Everything is ‘configured’ through
properties.
▪ Can ValQ be customized?
• Yes, ValQ is highly customizable. To be more
specific, you can customize the individual KPIs,
values, variance details, time periods, conditional
formatting, calculations, etc.
▪ How long does it take to build a mining demo
like this?
• If you have the data with you, you can build and
finalize a model in an hour’s time.

ValQ – Additional Information

VALQ
The Larger Picture - Other Use Cases
CEO & THE C-SUITE
Strategic Planning | Revenue, Margin & Profitability Planning | Performance & Risk Management | … and more
CFO / Finance CSO / Sales COO / Operations Head of Procurement Chief People Officer
▪ Planning
▪ Budgeting
▪ Reforecasting
▪ Variance Analysis
▪ Portfolio Analysis
▪ … and more
▪ Revenue Management
▪ Sales Performance &
Forecasting
▪ Territory & Quota Planning
▪ Sales Incentive Planning
▪ Marketing ROI
▪ … and more
▪ Sales & Operations
Planning
▪ Demand Planning
▪ Inventory Planning
▪ Supply Planning
▪ Capacity Planning
▪ … and more
▪ Strategic Sourcing
▪ Vendor Performance
▪ Spend Management
▪ Contract Management
▪ Procurement Planning
▪ … and more
▪ Headcount Planning
(Strategic)
▪ Workforce Demand
Planning (Operational)
▪ Workforce Optimization
(Financial)
▪ Compensation
Management
▪ … and more
Instantly visualize and optimize
profitability and growth

Traditional vs. Modern Way
Options Available for Mining Firms

ValQ is Serverless; It does not require any additional server, service, database or IT support
ValQ vs. Other Products
ValQ is a fully contained add-on for Microsoft Power BI

Pricing
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Budgeting
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Forum
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Q&A
Key Takeaways
1. ValQ can help shape the digital
mining enterprise of the future
through better decision-making
2. ValQ can singlehandedly support a
variety of analysis use cases for
mining –across exploration,
mining, processing & realization
3. Empower your workforce to
leverage the power of data by
moving from insights to action
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