Why is my mining plan always off track? 

A mining operation was experiencing ongoing disruptions to its weekly and monthly planning cycles. Although production targets were set, execution often diverged from the plan due to lack of visibility, missed dependencies, and poor integration between departments. Tasks were being reprioritized mid-week without proper assessment, leaving supervisors scrambling and frontline teams unclear on expectations.  Planners were relying on siloed spreadsheets, disconnected scheduling tools, and informal emails to communicate critical task sequences. There was no single view of progress against plan, and accountability for delays was unclear. As a result, short interval controls were weak, resources were misallocated, and performance gaps weren’t visible until it was too late to course correct.