Solving our business challenges … requires a collaborative, multivendor effort. We see the IVN as an on-going journey that will help us leverage our existing investments and create additional business value.

Peter McLure Group Manager Enterprise IT Strategy, BHP Billiton Chairman SAP Industry Advisory Council for Mining

The Industry Value Network group for mining brings SAP together with SAP customers and partners to focus on key priority business needs and opportunities in the mining industry.

The group drives strong collaboration between members to accelerate co-innovation and provide integrated, multivendor solutions and services to support key end-to-end business processes for our customers. This enables customers benefit from a new level of interoperability, reduced total cost of ownership, as well as increased transparency and productivity across the entire value chain.

The Group for Mining – In Action

Leading industry customers represented in the SAP Industry Advisory Council for Mining, such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Exxaro, and Goldcorp, are working with SAP and leading-edge partners in the mining industry to deliver innovative solutions and new, extended integration scenarios that address the key challenges in the mining industry. Find out more about the SAP partners helping to address these challenges:

• Mine planning and scheduling
• Independent software vendors – GijimaAst and Runge
• Operations management
• Independent software vendors – OSIsoft
• Enterprise asset management
• Independent software vendors – Citect and Meridium
• Operational compliance
• Independent software vendors – Technidata