Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Firm eyes software for RP’s miners
AN AUSTRALIAN mining solutions company wants to penetrate the whole country’s mining sector in the use of its integrated solutions software.
To do this, Pulse Mining Systems will showcase the work it has done in Carmen Copper Corp. (CCC), a subsidiary of Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp. (ACMDC).
Pulse Mining Systems, said client services manager James Silcock, provided CCC with its enterprise resource planning software, which will automate the company’s accounting, maintenance, inventory, purchasing and human resource operations.
“It is the same package that we offer worldwide,” Silcock told Sun.Star Cebu in an interview last week at the ACMDC compound in Toledo City, Cebu.
He said Pulse has its corporate headquarters in Australia, as that country has the largest mining industry worldwide.
Silcock explained that in Australia, the Pulse Mining System is used by 40 mining companies—ranging from coal to gold.
The company also has a presence in West Africa, serving a gold mining company.
“This is the first time that we have a client here in the Philippines, and we want to offer the company a total Atlas solution,” said Silcock, adding that after CCC they wish to offer the same system to ACMDC’s corporate office in Manila.
This is also the first time that a mining solutions company has broken through the Asian market.
The only changes made to the system to make it adaptable to the Philippine setting was to integrate the country’s taxation system, as well as set the payroll system to compute the salaries of the employees on a “quincena” or twice-a-month basis.
The Pulse training team has been in Toledo City for the last couple of months to train CCC’s employees who will handle the software. (DME)
