Rio Tinto: Scheduling the World’s Largest Fully-Owned and Integrated Iron Ore Supply Chain

Rio Tinto, one of the largest mining firms in the world, moves one million tons of iron ore to global steel mills every day. To help do that more efficiently, it has partnered with BCG and BCG X to transition from a 30-year-old scheduling system to a modern, AI-powered platform.

The new system, which makes multi-million-dollar trade-off decisions hundreds of times every day, has reduced onboarding time from twelve months to just one, doubled scheduler productivity, and paid back the investment in less than 3 months.

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