Best Practices on Mining Industries - CO-PC

Hello,
I am looking for best practices on the mining industry for CO-PC. I am not very familiar with this industry and I don't know if a classic solution based on standard cost price control and material ledger is the most suitable for this business.
I am used to Material Ledger, but I think it does not make sense to implement that on Mining Industry that produces coal for example or extract only one type of product using as raw materials only diesel and explosives. Can anyone share experiences in this segment?
Rgds,
Rafael

Hi Rafael,
Controlling in Mining industry is often centered not so much about product costs but about assets, maintenance and utilization. Therefore controlling reports often show the costs e.g. by crusher compared to planned cost, and ABC (activity based costing) plays a larger role than in classical manufacturing industries.
But material ledger is still quite popular in mining companies. Even if you are a coal miner there are manufacturing steps like purification, crushing and homogenizing and activity consumption involved in the process steps. Furthermore also the distribution and transportation costs play a big role and can be controlled by material ledger actual costs.
Have a look at SAP's best practice for Mining that contains material ledger and ABC templates for asset costs:
[http://help.sap.com/bp_miningv1600/Mining_AU/Html/index.htm]

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