Mining Supply Chain AI in Western Australia Perth based. Pilbara to Goldfields.

Source Digital is a one person AI consulting and custom software business in Perth, run by Tristan Sunde. It builds AI for mining supply chains: right stock levels, every PO checked against the price agreed, and quotes done in minutes.

There are two kinds of WA client:

• Miners and large mining contractors. Supply chain, procurement, stores and warehouse managers, and GMs of operations, whether the operation is in the Pilbara, the Goldfields or the Mid West.
• Mining services suppliers. Businesses with 10 to 100 staff that quote off RFQs every week, from Perth or from regional centres. The buyer is usually the owner, GM or estimator.

The work is the same wherever you are. What changes is which problem costs you most.

Both. Most of the work is done remotely from data exports and read-only access to your systems. On site time is used where it adds something, like walking the store or sitting with the people who use the system.

1. Kick off. A call or a meeting in Perth to agree scope and what data to send.
2. Data. You send exports, or grant read-only access. Nothing on your systems is changed.
3. Build and check. Done remotely. Results are checked line by line against the people who know the stock and the prices.
4. Walk through. On site or over Teams, whichever suits your roster.
5. Handover. Your team approves what goes live. The AI never decides.

That means a site in the Pilbara or Goldfields gets the same attention as an office in the Perth metro area, without waiting for a visit to get started.

It starts with a free 15 minute call, then a build inside your own data platform. The focus is working capital tied up in stock, stock levels out of line, and POs paid above contract rate.

On the call, Tristan asks what you run and what is costing you, and tells you straight whether there is something worth fixing and roughly what it would cost. If it helps, he looks at a sample export of your data, read-only. If it's worth doing, you get a clear scope and price, based on the days the work needs.

The build covers a stock level (min/max) engine, a PO vs contract checker, a contract price book, and an assistant inside Microsoft Teams. Ongoing support covers monthly re-runs, fixes and new sites.

This is the same approach used for an international tier 1 mining operator, where the stock level engine matched the site inventory expert's own spreadsheet 99.8% of the time. Read the mining supply chain case study.

Because lead time drives the reorder point. The longer and less reliable the trip from supplier to site, the more stock you need to cover it. A level that suits a site close to its supplier will run short at a site further out.

Min (reorder point) = average daily usage x lead time in days + safety stock

Example with made-up figures. These lead times are illustrative, not regional averages.

Same part, same usage, very different min. If both sites copy one level, one carries too much and the other runs out. A stock level engine works this out for every line at every site, using the lead times your suppliers actually deliver, not the ones in the system. See how to set min max levels and the safety stock calculation guide.

It starts with a free 15 minute call, then a Quote Desk that drafts quotes from RFQ emails and checks every PO that comes back.

On the call, Tristan asks what you run and what is costing you, and tells you straight whether there is something worth fixing and roughly what it would cost. If Quote Desk is worth doing for you, you get a clear scope and price.

Quote Desk reads RFQ emails and drafts the quote from your own price book. When the PO comes back, it checks price, quantity, part and terms against your quote before anything ships. Stock levels for your own warehouse can be added.

See Quote Desk for mining suppliers, the guide to writing a quote from an RFQ, and AI for mining services businesses. For a Perth example of a different kind, a mining parts supplier turned 13 PDFs into 35,268 searchable pages and 94,062 keyword variants. Read the Equipment Group case study.

In your own environment. Source Digital doesn't take your data into its own systems.

Every number links back to the line it came from, so anyone can check where a figure came from.

Book a free 15 minute call with Tristan, or send a quick enquiry. It's the same first step for miners, contractors and suppliers. No obligation, no pitch.

1. 15 minute call. Free, no obligation, no pitch. Tristan asks what you run and what is costing you, and tells you straight whether there is something worth fixing and roughly what it would cost.
2. A look at a sample export. Only if it's useful, and read-only.
3. A clear scope and price. What gets built, how many days it takes and what it costs, in writing before any work starts.
4. Build inside your systems. Your own Azure, Databricks or Snowflake for miners. Your Microsoft 365 or Google account plus an Australian-hosted database you own for suppliers.
5. Run, check and support. Re-runs, fixes and new sites or users as you grow. A person approves every change.

Work is charged at a consulting day rate. The price depends on your sites, systems and data, so we talk first, then Tristan sets out what he'd build, how many days it takes and what it costs.

Call Tristan on 0452 246 854 or email sales@source-digital.com.au. The full offer is on the AI for mining supply chain page.