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Mining ERP in Qatar

Mining is capital-heavy and contractor-heavy, which makes cost per tonne hard to see until the quarter closes. The ERP has to carry equipment, contractors and material movement on the same ledger.

  • Cost per tonne you can defend
  • Less unplanned equipment downtime
  • Contractor spend under control
  • Auditable compliance records
Mining ERP in Qatar

What we hear before a rollout

The same four problems come up in almost every conversation in this sector.

Cost sits at site level, not per tonne

Fuel, spares and contractor hours are booked to a cost centre, so unit economics stay hidden.

Equipment fails between services

Maintenance runs on a calendar while wear runs on hours, so failures land mid-shift.

Contractor claims are hard to verify

Measured work is agreed on site and reconciled from paperwork weeks later.

Consumables disappear quietly

Fuel and tyres are issued without a document against the machine that used them.

How ERP supports mining & metals

Pit-to-port costing

Cost tracked across extraction, haulage, processing and dispatch.

Every stage carries its own cost, so a rise in haulage does not hide inside a plant number.

Equipment maintenance

Preventive schedules driven by engine hours rather than the calendar.

Meter readings trigger service, which is what actually reduces unplanned stoppages.

Contractor control

Rates, certifications, measured work and payment certificates.

Measured quantities feed the payment certificate directly, removing the reconciliation argument.

Grade & assay

Sample results recorded against stockpiles and shipments.

Assay results attach to the stockpile and follow it through to shipment.

Consumables

Fuel, explosives, tyres and spares tracked by site and equipment.

Issues are booked against the machine, so consumption per unit becomes visible and comparable.

Compliance records

Permits, inspections and environmental records kept auditable.

Permits and inspections carry expiry alerts rather than living in a folder.

Where most rollouts start

A first phase usually covers these four, then grows once the team is comfortable.

How we implement it

Mining and quarrying ERP in practice: fleet, production and cost per tonne

Quarries, aggregate producers, cement suppliers and mining contractors in Qatar run heavy fleets, weighbridges, crushing plants and remote sites, and they need cost per tonne, fleet utilisation, fuel and tyre cost, maintenance before breakdown and sales by weighbridge ticket. The ERP has to integrate weighbridges, model production as batches from raw extraction to graded product, allocate fleet and plant cost, and bill customers with VAT from tickets.

We implement Odoo and ERPNext for mining and quarrying companies with weighbridge integration, production and stockpiles, fleet and equipment maintenance with meter-based schedules, spares inventory, fuel management, HR with site allowances and GRSIA and WPS payroll, and accounting. Hosting inside Qatar and offline site operation are standard.

Reporting covers cost per tonne by product and site, fleet availability and cost per hour, fuel consumption, stockpile balances and sales by customer and grade.

Straight answers

Questions we are asked

Yes, tickets become deliveries and invoices.

Yes, by product and site.

Yes.

Yes, with synchronisation.

Yes, with allowances, GRSIA and WPS.

Twelve to sixteen weeks.

Yes. Weighbridge tickets create sales and receipts automatically, with tonnage, grade and vehicle recorded against the customer or supplier.

Yes. Each machine carries hours, fuel, maintenance and downtime, so cost per tonne and per site is reported rather than estimated.
The sector in Qatar

Mining ERP in Qatar: what is different here

Qatar's extractive sector is quarrying, cement and aggregates: gabbro and limestone operations, Qatar National Cement and the importers bringing aggregates through Hamad Port and Al Ruwais for the construction market.

The ERP has to cost extraction and crushing per site, integrate weighbridges for sales and receipts, manage a heavy-equipment fleet with maintenance and fuel, and control credit to contractors who buy on account.

Based in Doha, working across Qatar

Talk to our ERP team

Tell us how your processes run today and we will come back with a practical view of scope, effort and timeline.