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The business of a bulk handling facility is to move commodities from a source to a destination. Business intelligence is calculating the real cost of doing the business.

Activity Based Costing

"The Cost of Doing the Business"

The business of a bulk handling facility is to move commodities from a source to a destination. This process will move a quantity of product and consume resources in the form of energy, personnel and materials. Value added processes like sampling and treatment are also carried out as part of the storage and supply business within the handling facility.

The Costing Units will allow the facility to compare the costs of:

Effective and total cost of producing

• Cost of non producing, with and without activities running
• Cost of lost production during a maintenance downtime
• Cost of lost production during an operational downtime
• Cost of producing on different shift rosters
• Cost of producing at different times of the day

Activity Analysis

The BULKmetrix task manager monitors all activities, events and work periods. It is responsible for the collection of real time data from operational plant, instrumentation and data input stations as well as periodical data relating to plant operations. This data is filtered within a rigid set of interruption and priority rules to ensure only the relevant data is processed.

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BULKmetrix leverages the information from a real time integrated plant control & inventory repository to enable a business to better plan, schedule & operate its core plants.