Vertical Markets

Mining Industry

SunSystems has unique features that make it particularly well-suited to the mining industry, for exploration, producing and service companies, and a significant customer base has been developed in Vancouver.

Value Proposition for the Mining Industry

Reporting by analysis dimensions with up to 10 ledger dimensions

These analysis dimensions can be configured during the implementation to fit your requirements. Examples include:

  • Property
  • Location
  • Contract
  • Department
  • Project
  • Work Order
  • Employee

Multi-currency

  • True multi-currency functionality at the transaction level
  • Up to 4 different currency values plus one statistical value (for metrics, e.g. quantities, hours)
  • Monthly or daily conversion rates in any currency

Multi-lingual

  • Over 30 different languages
  • Single installation can support multiple languages on the same local area network

Global reach

  • Implementation and local support around the world

Low risk

  • Implementation experience with multiple companies in the Mining industry
  • Scaleable to meet growth
  • Platform independent

Low total cost of ownership

  • Rapid implementation
  • Proven project implementation methodology

Supports different charts of accounts

  • Meet Head Office requirements
  • Meet local statutory reporting with country-specific charts of accounts that can be mapped to the Head Office chart of accounts for consolidation purposes

Joint Venture reporting

  • Allocation of costs to projects

Multiple Business Units

  • Each business unit can have its own chart of accounts, base currency and analysis dimensions to support local requirements

Integration to third-party systems

  • SunSystems has several tools available to integrate to third-party systems. These range from an automated system that imports data into SunSystems at pre-set time intervals, for example over night, to a simple manual method of importing data into SunSystems. These methods are shown below:

Controlling External System Feeds

Integration Toolsets

Technical

Even an Accountant can make it work!

SunSystems Connect (SSC)
  • The SunSystems "API" — an XML based toolset that provides both datatransfer facilities and access to many functions.
  • This is essentially a programmers tool
Transfer Desk
  • A front-end to SSC providing import/export utilities for text and XML based data
Vision XL
  • A Microsoft Excel add-in that facilitates both reporting on information within SunSystems and other data sources and the transfer of transactions and reference data to SunSystems