Process improvement
Nine data sources. Five departments. One deadline. Across the operations we have worked with, that is what month-end looks like, and most of it runs through one Excel file that every department has to take a turn in.
About our process improvement services
We map the close as it actually runs: which system each number comes from, who touches it, where it waits, and which single step is the one that makes the deadline slip. The output is a description of your process that the people who run it recognise.
Most of what we find does not need new software. Removing a re-keying step, settling one definition of a call factor across departments, or changing the order the sheets are filled in costs nothing to try and can be reversed on the next cycle if it does not hold.
Where the problem is reconciliation, our working method is already published: four articles with the equations, the factor definitions, and worked examples on real gold-mine figures. You can check whether we understand your process before you talk to us.
Read the step-by-step reconciliation guide
How it works
Three stages, and the second one is the one that matters. If we can return the time without writing code, that is the recommendation you will get.
Walk one close end to end
We follow a single month-end from the first data pull to the signed-off number, sitting with the people who do each step rather than reading the procedure document that describes it.
Fix what does not need software
The re-keying, the two departments using different definitions of the same factor, the approval that waits three days for one person. These go first because they are cheap, reversible, and they prove the value before anyone signs a budget.
Systemise only what is left
Whatever still has to be a system becomes one: a dashboard, a custom application, or Pit Info where the problem is reconciliation. Scope is bounded to the steps that survived the second stage.
The closest published work to this
At a mid-tier gold producer the month-end reporting problem was a single Excel file passed between departments. Four dashboards, four weeks from discovery to deployment, and more than 550 management hours returned a year.
Read the case study“The improvements that Minebright made to our reporting systems were a huge help to our team. Having near-real time insights into every aspect of construction progress allowed me to focus my efforts where they were most needed and contributed to the Abujar Gold Project being delivered on-time and on-budget.”
Daniel Kotzee
Construction Manager, Tietto Minerals
Walk us through your month-end close
One call, following the close from the first data pull to the number that gets signed. Ask for Haden Brearton, Minebright's CEO. If the answer is that you do not need software, that is the answer you will get.
Walk us through your close