As Pahlisch Commercial expanded its operations and the limitations of its existing accounting system, the aging Sage 300 CRE, became increasingly evident. The company also faced a series of challenges that hindered its efficiency and growth potential.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tenke Fungurume Mining, a Freeport-McMoRan company, has operations that generate significant economic stimulus throughout most of the Kolwezi region and into the provincial capital of Lubumbashi.
Significant indirect and induced economic impacts arise from company policy to source as many goods and services as possible from local suppliers and through the spending habits of the company’s approximately 8,000 employees and contractors.
PT Freeport Indonesia, a Freeport-McMoRan company, commissions the University of Indonesia’s Institute of Economics and Social Research to conduct economic impact assessment of PT Freeport Indonesia’s operations. The most recent study, conducted in 2012, measured PT Freeport Indonesia’s economic impact on a local, regional, and national level from 2006 to 2011. The study revealed that PT Freeport Indonesia contributed to up to 94.7 percent of the gross domestic product of the Mimika Regency, 45.4 percent of Papua Province, and 0.8 percent of Indonesia. The prior study, conducted in 2009, concluded that the multiplier effect of PTFI’s workforce created 227,000 direct and indirect work opportunities, including 128,000 direct and indirect work opportunities in Papua alone.
Freeport-McMoRan has advanced investments in women’s economic empowerment programs, such as “Dreambuilder-Women’s Business Creator,” an online entrepreneurship skills training program that has reached more than 3,600 women in Latin America with more than half from communities in Chile and Peru near Freeport-McMoRan operations.
Freeport-McMoRan has established community trust funds or social funds in Chile, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia and the United States, which are managed by community members who determine the allocation of funds to programs that focus on education, health and economic development.
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