XERAS for Enterprise is an unrivalled Enterprise Financial Management system, keeping you in control of your operations and their costs.

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2 XERAS FOR ENTERPRISE XERAS for Enterprise delivers never before seen visibility of mine planning costs across a complex business environment, allowing mine managers, finance departments and CFOs to see how their costs are tracking, comparing inputs and outputs across sites to enable timely intervention and action. When it comes to modelling and analysing the capital and operational costs of your assets, there is no better tool than RPM s XERAS site-specific software. With seamless integration to SAP, XERAS for Enterprise now puts financial visibility for your entire enterprise at your fingertips. XERAS for Enterprise uses a streamlined process which provides you with consolidated budgets, true plan vs. actuals analysis, dynamic reforecasting, a future view of the total financial position of your mining business and gives complete visibility creating confidence and trust across the entire planning process. XERAS for Enterprise is an unrivalled Enterprise Financial Management system, keeping you in control of your operations and their costs. Can you Consolidate plans with ConfidenCe, integrity and accuracy? do you trust the plans being presented to you? Can you evaluate multiple plan options simultaneously? Can your business plan respond quickly to major Changes? Can you rapidly reforecast using zero based budgeting every month?

3 plan vs. actuals analysis XERAS for Enterprise stores detailed planning information to enable true analysis between your operations planned and actual results, giving you deep visibility to not only identify but understand the causes of variance to the plan. The deeper visibility is enabled quickly and easily by XERAS for Enterprise s integration with SAP. Using XERAS for Enterprise, you ll identify issues earlier enabling you to implement mitigation strategies earlier, so you can achieve the best future economic value from your operations. dynamic reforecasting XERAS for Enterprise s ability to dynamically reforecast creates confidence and trust in the planning process as well as an accurate and up-to-date financial view of your operations. Integration with SAP enables reforecasting faster than before. The two way integration between SAP and XERAS for Enterprise means information is continually updated, so your assumptions can be re-calibrated and reviewed frequently. Using the insight and analysis of the variances to plan, XERAS for Enterprise allows you to evaluate reforecast scenarios then make informed decisions about the business and visualise implications for your future financial performance. On one hand you can have a structured, accurate and timely monthly rolling forecast and on the other if something changes dramatically then you can produce updated forecasts at the push of a button. Consolidated financial plans Consolidate the total view of your future operational financial position with XERAS for Enterprise. XERAS for Enterprise enables this by: Quickly preparing and validating consolidated models, allowing true benchmarking across the business. Using the XERAS model synchronisation feature, the time to consolidate models is dramatically reduced while still retaining the ability to see the unique logic model structures within the plan. Automatically consolidate and validate plans to ensure complete corporate governance across the enterprise. By creating a sandbox environment for financial planning analysis, XERAS for Enterprise lets you rapidly and reliably evaluate options to ensure only the best financial plans are implemented.

4 visibility and control Better access to information leads to better decision making and XERAS for Enterprise makes relevant financial data more visible than ever before. With XERAS for Enterprise, you ll gain visibility from high level numbers and the ability to drill down through the layers of the plan - right through to the underlying assumptions. This gives all levels of management visibility into the impact of their decisions on the overall business. XERAS for Enterprise bridges the gap and truly links the physical mine sites to the corporate office. As a result, with XERAS for Enterprise you can have full confidence in the information you provide to your stakeholders. integration with sap XERAS for Enterprise seamlessly integrates with SAP to allow for fast and robust data transfer between systems, keeping all your relevant financial information secure in one place. Linked with SAP, XERAS for Enterprise delivers integrity of information, process control and confidence in your plans enabling your ERP to truly be the single source of truth. Integrating XERAS for Enterprise with your SAP system reduces rework and double handling of data while validating plans and improving the productivity of your finance teams. Examples of data integration between XERAS and SAP include: Chart of Accounts codes. Equipment list and maintenance strategies. Maintenance orders, Last Done Next Due data and Meter readings. Budget and Forecast data. Xeras model to Xeras model data transfer XERAS for Enterprise enables your individual XERAS installations throughout your business to communicate between each other seamlessly. It allows corporate assumptions, business rules and logic to be entered into your master model, synchronising them with each of your sites ensuring corporate control of critical data and consistency in your operations. The data transfer works both ways, with data fed from sites to the master model allowing management visibility to compare the financial performance of each site and undertake corporate benchmarking.

5 enterprise integration OMI MII ERP XERAS for Enterprise is the link between XERAS, your model calculation engine, and SAP your Financial Management System. It uses RPM s Operational Mining Integration (OMI), to open seamless communication channels between these systems and unlocks the data models for use in SAP. SAP MII provides the underlying middleware infrastructure to connect our expert system with SAP. This architecture allows for two way integration. Planning data is able to flow from XERAS into SAP and corporate data such as chart of accounts and financial actuals can flow from SAP into XERAS. The architecture is robust, reliable and has a fully auditable framework.

6 rpm enterprise software RPM is working with SAP to deliver enterprise strength solutions for mine planning, financial forecasting and operations management. These solutions will elevate RPM s industry standard software suite into the enterprise space. This integration with SAP will allow seamless, automatic interchange of production and maintenance plans, financial forecasts and actual results. SAP has selected RPM as their industry partner to provide mining solutions that augment SAP systems and deliver a comprehensive view of mine planning, production and maintenance across the mining enterprise. Combining SAP s above the line corporate financial management expertise with RPM s 40 years of below the line mine planning and operations experience creates solutions focused on the mining industry s unique requirements. Enterprise enabled, RPM products use MII middleware to provide secure and robust integration. SAP is then empowered as the one source of the truth for mine planning, production and maintenance. software support RungePincockMinarco s international network gives our customers multiple support options across multiple time zones. Our skilled professionals provide both technical software support and extended implementation support, covering any model or customisation. Access RungePincockMinarco s comprehensive support service by telephone or , or get online and talk with our experts on the RPM Forums. No matter where you are globally, no matter how remote, we can help. about rungepincockminarco (rpm) RPM is the world s largest publicly traded independent group of mining technical experts, with history stretching back to We have local expertise in all mining regions and are experienced across all commodities and mining methods. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange on 27 May 2008 (ASX: RUL), RPM is a global leader in the provision of advisory consulting, technology and professional development solutions to the mining industry. We have global expertise achieved through our work in over 118 countries and our approach to the business of mining is strongly grounded in economic principles. We operate offices in 18 locations across 12 countries on five continents. For more information visit rpmglobal.com or info@rpmglobal.com.