Revenue Science
Productivity Science
Planning Science

THE SETTING OF OPTIMAL AND REALISTIC GOALS Creating PLANS to ensure that the OBJECTIVES are MONITORED AND MET.

Our team of financial modellers, data scientists, data engineers, industry experts and software developers deploy planning technologies and methodologies to provide our clients with a comprehensive planning capability that supports critical executive decisions and maximise company value.

Integrated planning, rapid scenario planning, optimization, and automated rolling forecasting ensure the best plans are made and stay valid over time.

APPLICATIONS OFFERED

Portfolio
Optimisation

With lengthy project timelines, billions of dollars in assets, and significant sums of money required to sustain and grow a capital-intensive business, identifying the optimal basket of capital investments to maximise shareholder value while mitigating portfolio risk is essential.

Our Qerent Portfolio Optimisation application is designed to address the key challenges surrounding the long-term executive decisions on which investment opportunities to pursue (and when) by providing an integrated, practical, and agile strategic planning capability.

Rolling
Forecast

A driver based rolling forecast is integral to agile business planning and are now a critical addition to the traditional approach of using a static annual budget. A Rolling Forecast allows for re-planning throughout the financial year based on changing market conditions or operational realities that must be accounted for, while also providing an initial view of the following year’s annual budget the closer you get to the end of the financial year.

Our Qerent Rolling Forecast Application integrates to key source systems and enables a driver-based Rolling Forecast capability for your organisation with advanced analytics, diagnostics, scenario planning, automation and seamless reporting of insights/recommendations.

TESTIMONIALS

Very energetic team that is a pleasure to work with.

Planning Science - Anglo American

BSC provided innovative but practical data science solutions that quickly deliver value to your organisation. Their problem solving ability, flexible attitude to technical solutions and ability to work globally are unrivalled.

Planning Science - Anglo American

“BSC’s Qerent platform was instrumental in shaping our decision to move ahead with this new leaching technology. We had an understanding that copper recovery was improved, but Qerent allowed us to see clearly the opportunity for both copper production and cash flow in a planning platform that easily allows for modifying input assumptions. Better information, easily obtained, made for confident decision-making.”

Planning science - Capstone Mining Corp

Positive strong systems and employees with huge flexibility. The consistent application of calculation and rules

Planning science - Sibanye-Stillwater

The BSC team worked really well with the Tyme team and ensured that there was alignment throughout the project. With constant feedback, and a good understanding of the business, they delivered a quality output.

Planning science - Tyme Bank Limited

The exceptionally talented BSC team brought together business, management and technical skills to translate business insights to into a robust analytical model to reveal the real drivers that influence liquidity.

Planning Science - Anglo American

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For the past 20 years, BSC has mastered the application of analytics and smart technology to increase business performance.

Copper Mining and Processing
Planning Science
Integrated Business Planning
An Integrated Business Planning model combining operational drivers across the Copper mining and processing value streams with site- and macro-level financial drivers to yield a financial forecast and . This allowed for production planning, bottleneck analysis and studies on business case and capital investment profitability.
Banking
Planning Science
Rolling Forecast
This solution provided the bank with an intimate understanding of their key drivers of financial performance and the impact a change on any of these key drivers would have on their future through comprehensive scenario planning. It then used this information to ensure the bank would remain compliant and continue to adhere to regulations in an ever-changing environment.
Multi-commodity Mining Group
Planning Science
Group Integrated Planning
A fully integrated model including stochastic analysis, that provides an understanding of group risk exposure by using the variability in key drivers to calculate a confidence in achieving the Business Plan at Business Unit and Group level. This facilitated meaningful communication to shareholders and market analysts, providing assurance of the likelihood of meeting targets and exposure to key risks.
Media
Planning Science
Rolling Forecast
Developed a rolling forecast model that allowed the Financial Planning and Analysis team to report a monthly rolling forecast for the group, perform Budget vs Actual analysis, evaluate and quantify the causes of deviations, create multiple scenarios to stress test plans and generate amended Budgets for approval.
Planning Science
Platinum Mining and Processing
Strategic Portfolio Planning
A portfolio optimisation solution that modelled the production and economics of a portfolio of mining assets and the processing value chain, from mine to market, for a major Platinum operator. This provided an enhanced decision support capability through rapid scenario generation by allowing flexing of underlying operational driver, commercial contracts and macro-economics.
Planning Science
Utilities
Capital Portfolio Optimisation
A capital allocation decision support solution was built to allow for capital projects across different business units to objectively compete for capital based on liquidity and operational constraints. An optimization simulation provided the top portfolio configurations given the strategic focus criteria.
Commodity Market
Planning Science
Commodity Supply Demand Modelling
Cost models that estimate historical and forecasted future production, cost, and emissions data for all the major assets in the world for a given commodity. This allows clients to analyze market supply, demand, pricing and make asset valuations.